How You Review Results on Individual Orders and Sets

Planning results on individual orders and sets are updated in the Backlog Analysis table when you run the plan. Here's how you review them:

• Compare the Planned dates with their corresponding Scheduled and Requested dates to know whether your order's fulfillment prospects have changed.

• Review results for other attributes like the Planned organizations, Planned shipping method, and so on.

• Review calculated priority values.

• Some rows represent sets. Use the Manage Set action to view constituent order lines. Compare the requested, scheduled, and planned values with the Item Availability Date, the Planned Date Without Item, the Improvement Potential Without Item, and the items' Constraint Rank values. The planned date for the most constraining item is the planned date of the set.

If you're satisfied with the results, save them. Remember that the Save Planning Results action doesn't automatically deliver planning results to the order management system; it only saves results to the backlog planning data repository so that they can be displayed in subsequent user sessions, until new results for the planned orders are saved.

Tip: You can take actions to lock or override planning results. You can also decommit some orders or prevent the planning process from considering some orders for fulfillment. While reviewing sets, you can remove constraining items. To know more, refer to the Simulate Changes to Attribute Values section in this chapter.