1. Using Order Promising
  2. Get Details About Demand

Get Details About Demand

Get details about demand, including the extent of delay, and who has what quantity for an item.

  1. Go to the Global Order Promising work area.
  2. Click Open.
  3. In the Open Table, Graph, or Tile Set dialog, click the row that has the value, then click OK:
    Attribute Description

    Name

    		 Manage Order Promising Demands
  4. On the Manage Order Promising Demands page, search for your area of interest, such as customer, item, or organization.
  5. Click your order line in the search results, then examine the data in the Analytics section:
    Data Description

    Demand Line Scheduling Distribution

    Get details about promising performance according to the customer, item, category, organization, and supplier.

    See how much delay there is, such as 1 to 3 days delay, 4 to 7 days, and so on.
    Item Availability

    Get details about the item, including the quantity that's available for the item at various organizations and suppliers.

    This section displays:

    • Shelf quantity. The amount of supply that's available for an item in an organization or supplier.
    • Allocated quantity. The amount of supply that Promising has reserved to meet demand from the sales order.
    • Available quantity. The amount of supply that's available to fulfill new sales orders, but that Promising hasn't allocated. Available quantity equals shelf quantity minus allocated quantity.

    Note

    • The numbers that you see depend on how you set up your global sourcing rule. For details, see Source Your Supply Chain.
    • If you specify a substitute for the item, then the Item list of values includes the substitute item.

Graph an Item's Availability

Use a Redwood page to use bar charts and graphically compare the total, available, and assigned supply for an item across one or more organizations and supplier sites:

  • View your total, available, and assigned supply for each item across one or more organizations and supplier sites in one visual display.
  • Compare supply across your supply chain with bar charts so you can quickly diagnose shortages and delays.
  • See how much supply is immediately available to promise new orders according to the most recent data that you collect.
  • Filter supply according to date, item, customer, or region to focus on the data that matters most.
  • Display results according to your organization, your drop-ship suppliers, or both so you can see the entire supply picture.
  • Identify gaps between shelf quantity and assigned quantity so you can act before supply runs short.
  • Analyze availability at different assignment levels, from item and customer to region and global, to understand where choke points exist.

Try It:

  1. Collect the entities that you want to use in the report. See Collect Data for Global Order Promising.
  2. Go to Home > Order Management > Show More > ctrl+f > Item Availability.
  3. Set the attributes, click Submit, then examine the result.

Item Availability Report

Quantity Value
Shelf Quantity that's available according to the most recent data that you collect.
Assigned Quantity that sales orders have consumed.
Available Quantity that's immediately available to promise new sales orders.

Note

  • The available quantity equals the shelf quantity minus the assigned quantity.
  • Filter data according to item and date.
  • Filter according to customer or items that use sourcing rules at the customer or regional level.
  • Display the report according to your organization, the suppliers that you use for drop shipments, or both.
You can filter search according to assignment level, from most specific to least specific:
Specificity Assignment Level Filter Criteria
1 Item and customer and site Customer and customer site
2 Item and customer Customer and customer site
3 Item and demand class Not Supported
4 Item and region Customer and customer site
5 Category and customer site Customer and customer site
6 Category and Customer Customer and customer site
7 Category and demand class Not Supported
8 Item Not applicable
9 Category and region Customer and customer site
10 Category Not applicable
11 Customer and customer site Customer and customer site
12 Customer Customer and customer site
13 Demand class Not Supported
14 Region Customer and customer site
15 Global Not applicable

See Consider Your Sourcing Hierarchy and Assignment Set Hierarchy.

The shelf quantity includes the supply that sales orders consume on the system date. The assigned quantity doesn't include that supply.