How to Create New Supplies Only After a Specified Date

In some business cases, you might want to delay the creation of planned orders until after a specified date. For example, if there's a temporary product recall, you might want to allow new orders to be placed, but only after a certain date.

The Create Supply After attribute lets you prevent the creation of new supply order recommendations until after a date you specify. It allows you to configure each product's earliest supply creation date.

The Create Supply After attribute must be used in conjunction with the Create Supply attribute. The Create Supply attribute specifies whether the plan can create a new supply for the item. The Create Supply After field is enabled only if the Create Supply attribute is first set to Yes.

To set these attributes, from the Product Information Management work area, navigate to the Items page, Specifications tab. These attributes can also be modified in a plan and in a simulation set, in the Items table.

To delay creating a planned order until after a specified date:

1. Set Create Supply to Yes.
2. Enter a date in the Create Supply After field.

These attributes control the creation of new make and buy planned orders. They don't control the creation of new transfer planned orders or reschedules of existing orders, because the intent is to limit new orders while utilizing all possible existing inventory in the supply chain.

Planning ensures that the Suggested Due Date of any new make or buy supply is after the Create Supply After date. However, the other dates, such as Suggested Dock Date, can be prior to the Create Supply After date based on lead times. In aggregate planning buckets, the due dates are always at the end of the bucket, but the dates released to the source system are at the beginning of the bucket. So, in such cases, the released date could fall prior to the Create Supply After date.

Note that if a demand is satisfied late due to the Create Supply After date constraint, then the Late Supply Pegged to Sales Order (or Forecast) exception is generated.

The Create Supply and Create Supply After attributes can be used in either constrained or unconstrained supply plans.