Understanding Supply Monitor for Sales Order Lines
The Supply/Demand Chart program (P42X050) enables you to constantly monitor sales orders and view real-time information concerning the allocation of inventory to sales order lines. You must use the Sales Order Entry program (P42101) for sales order entry to access the Supply Monitor - Supply/Demand form (W42X050A). From the Sales Order Entry program, you can access the Supply Monitor - Supply/Demand form by clicking the icon that appears in the Supply Monitor field of the sales order detail line that is not marked as in fulfillment.
The system displays graphical information such as quantity available, quantity ordered, and scheduled pick date. A snapshot view of this information enables customer service representatives to communicate real-time information concerning the inventory available to allocate to the sales order line.
The information that you are viewing at the time of sales order entry or in update mode is a snapshot view of real-time item availability for the scheduled pick date.
The information is real time and changes based on new and revised transactions. For example, today you might have enough inventory to completely fill the order line, but the scheduled pick date is two weeks away. Because of additional transactions and new demands, five days before the scheduled pick date you may have only enough inventory to partially fill the order line.
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).