Understanding Supply Monitor for Sales Order Lines in Fulfillment Management

The Fulfillment Chart program (P42X040) enables you to constantly monitor sales orders and view real-time information concerning the potential to allocate inventory to sales order lines in Fulfillment Management.

The system displays graphical information, such as priority ranking, quantity ordered, ranges of order scores, and the fulfillment potential for sales order lines in each fulfillment potential category: high, moderate, and low. A snapshot view of this information enables customer service representatives to communicate real-time information concerning the potential to allocate inventory to sales order lines in Fulfillment Management.

You must use the Sales Order Entry program (P42101) for sales order entry to access the Supply Monitor - Fulfillment Potential form (W42X040A). From the Sales Order Entry program, you can access the Supply Monitor - Fulfillment Potential form by clicking the icon that appears in the Supply Monitor field of a sales order detail line marked as in fulfillment.

The information that you are viewing at the time of sales order entry and in update mode is a snapshot view of what would occur should you run the Auto Fulfillment Processing program (R4277701) at that time.

The information is real time and changes based on new and revised transactions. For example, order lines that currently have a high potential of being fulfilled might have a moderate potential of being fulfilled two hours later.

In the case of a process failure, such as sales order processing ending abnormally or closing a browser with an active session open, the system may not clean up work files properly. You can run the Supply Monitor Chart Work File program (R42X060WP) to delete all work file records that are more than one day old. The Supply Monitor Chart Work File program purges records from the Supply Monitor Chart Work File table (F42X060W).