1. Fulfillment Management Implementation Guide
  2. Availability Calculations

Availability Calculations

You define availability for each branch in the Branch/Plant Constants program (P41001). You decide what quantities are subtracted from and added to the on-hand quantity to calculate the available quantity. For the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Fulfillment Management system, Oracle recommends that you:

  • Subtract the soft committed quantities. The system uses the available quantity to determine how much to fill inventory to sales order lines. As the Fulfillment Management system soft commits sales order lines; you must subtract soft commitments from the on hand balance to keep availability accurate.

  • Subtract the hard committed quantities. The system uses the available quantity to determine how much inventory to assign to sales order lines. If you do not use hard commitments in your system, it is not necessary to subtract hard commitments from the on hand balance.

  • Not subtract the future committed quantities. The system uses the available quantity to determine how much to fill inventory to sales order lines. The Fulfillment Management system puts the order quantity in the future committed bucket before processing the order. If you subtract future commitments from the on hand balance, you do not have accurate availability quantities during the fulfillment process.

  • Not subtract safety stock. When you use fulfillment rules to manage inventory levels with the Auto Fulfillment Processing report (R4277701), the system uses the rules to determine how much inventory to hold.

    • If you subtract safety stock from the on hand balance, you must set up a line with a value of zero in the Safety Stock Percentage field in the Fulfillment Rules Setup program (P4277720).

    • The chart on the Fulfillment Workbench program (P4277701) does not display the safety stock level if the quantity is subtracted from the on hand balance.

The Availability Checking field on the Item Master record (F4102) does not have any impact on items that go through the fulfillment process. The Auto Fulfillment Processing and the Fulfillment Workbench programs perform availability checking regardless of the setting in this field.