See What Supply is Available and Allocated

See what supply is available and what supply is allocated.

Review Supply Availability

Use this action to examine the current state of supply that's available for your item. This action measures availability in different ways.

Measure Type Description
Supply Total supply that's currently available for the item.

Consumed

Supply that Promising consumed while promising the item.
Net

Net supply that's available for the item.

Net equals Supply minus Consumed.

Cumulative

Cumulative, net supply for the item over time.

The Supply, Net, and Cumulative types apply for a specific time frame, such as January 1 through January 15, and the action indicates what's available during these dates.

The Consumed type doesn't have a value according to date because Promising can consume supply for a fulfillment line from more than one date range.

This action applies only when you use an available-to-promise (ATP) rule to promise your item, and only if you set the rule's mode to Supply Chain Search. If you set the mode to Infinite Availability, then you can still use the action but the values will show that the item is infinitely available. See Promising Modes for ATP Rules.

Review Supply Allocation

Use this action to see what Promising has allocated for your item, according to organization, demand class, and week.

Promising assumes that Monday is the first day of the week.

This action measures allocation in different ways.

Allocation Description

Target

Supply that Promising allocated to the demand class in one week according to your allocation rule.

Promising includes historical shipments in the calculation, and then determines the target allocation value.

Promising does this when you specify a date range to consider shipping history in your allocation rule.

Consumed

Allocation that Promising already used to promise other fulfillment lines in the demand class.

Available

Allocation that's still available for one week.

Cumulative Available

Cumulative allocation that's available.

Use this action to get details about how Promising meets demand and get insights into the overall performance of your allocation.

  • For example, see the total demand quantity for each week, the demand quantity that promising has scheduled to ship or deliver on time, and the fill rate percentage for each item that you allocate.
  • Examine the total and on-time revenue for each node to help you determine the financial impact of allocating supply.
  • Use the action's demand summary to help make more informed decisions about how to allocate a limited amount of supply that's available in your supply chain.

Here's a description of some of the attributes that you can examine when you use this action.

Attribute Description
Demand Quantity Total quantity of the demand that exists in an allocation node for each week.
Scheduled On Time Percentage

Percentage of scheduled sales orders out of the total number of scheduled orders that are on time for the week, where the scheduled ship date is less than or equal to the requested ship date, or the scheduled arrival date is less than or equal to the requested arrival date.

For example, if 94 orders are on time, and you have a total of 100 orders for the week, then this attribute displays a value of 94%.
Scheduled Fill Rate Percentage

Percentage of the scheduled quantity out of the total quantity that is on time for the week, where the scheduled ship date is less than or equal to the requested ship date, or the scheduled arrival date is less than or equal to the requested arrival date.

Assume you have a total of 100 sales orders for the week, and the total quantity for them is 1,000 units. If 94 orders are on time, and if the total quantity for these on time orders is 800 units, then this attribute displays a value of 80%.
Demand Revenue Revenue that you can expect to get from demand in the allocation node, measured according to the requested date that happens during the week.
Scheduled On Time Revenue Revenue that you can expect to get from demand in the allocation node, when:
  • The requested ship date equals the scheduled ship date.

    or

  • The requested arrival date equals the scheduled arrival date.

Review Supply and Allocation Across Organizations

You can review supply outside of the context of an availability option.

  1. Go to the Order Promising work area, then click Open.
  2. In the dialog that displays, click the row that has one of these values, then click OK.
    • Review Supply Availability
    • Review Supply Allocation
  3. Search according to date, item, and warehouse.
  4. Examine the results.

Review Supply Availability is similar to the one that you see through an availability option, except it looks at demand class according to how you allocate supply. You can also use the Item attribute and the Warehouse attribute to specify which warehouse to look at that builds the item. If you don't specify a warehouse, then the action lists supply for all organizations that build the item.

To filter your search, click Advanced in the search area, the add values to more attributes, such as Supplier Name, Work Center, Resource, and so on.

Review Supply Allocation is the exact same action that you see through an availability option.