Planning Selection

Use the Planning Selection group on the Planning Console form to enter or review the basic filter criteria for supply and demand information.

When you access the Planning Console program from the Planning Summary program, all the filter fields are pre-populated, and you can modify only the Unit of Measure field. By default, the system displays the primary unit of measure.

When you access the Planning Console program in standalone mode, the system converts the units of measure (UOMs) in the Supply/Demand Details grid to the UOM that you enter in the Unit of Measure field when you click Find. However, the system always displays the quantities in the Beginning Inventory on Hand and the Supply/Demand Charts groups in the primary UOM.

In the Item Number field, you click the orange square in the upper left corner to access the Additional Item Information form. The system calls the Planning Summary/Console Item Hover Form program (P34X100H) and displays the Additional Item Information form. The Additional Item Information form displays additional item information from the Requirements Planning Summary and Planning Console programs.

When you access the Planning Console program from the Planning Summary program, the system displays the primary unit of measure in the Unit of Measure field. The system uses the primary UOM in the Beginning Inventory on Hand and Supply/Demand Charts groups on the Planning Console form.

When you access the Planning Console form, the system displays the start date based on the date in the Start Date processing option of the Planning Console program. If the start date is a non-working day, the system displays the next working day.

The system calculates the end date by adding the planning horizon days, weeks, and months specified in the Planning Horizon Periods processing options to the date in the Start Date processing option of the Planning Console program. The system displays the end date in the End Date field in the Planning Selection group on the Planning Console form. If the calculated end date is a non-working day, the system displays the previous working day.

The Planning Console program also uses workday calendar dates to determine the planning horizon dates.

The system retrieves all past due demand. The system retrieves past due forecast based on processing option settings in the Planning Console program.

If the Forecast Consumption Logic processing option on the Process tab is set to a value of 1 to use forecast consumption, then the start date for forecast retrieval is the beginning date of the current forecast consumption period.

You can perform a more refined search of supply and demand records by using the query by example (QBE) lines in the Supply/Demand Details grid.

You review the days of supply and ending available alerts in the Critical Component Alerts group. You click the DOS (days of supply) or EA (ending available) link to access the Critical Component form.