Check Availability

Use Check Availability to explore different ways to promise your order line.

Go to Home > Order Management > Global Order Promising.
Click Open, then search for and open Manage Order Promising Demands. For details, see Get Details About Demand.
On the Manage Order Promising Demands page, do a search, select a line in the search results, then click Actions > Check Availability.
Use various actions on the Check Availability page, such as View Availability Options, Review Supply Availability, View Availability Details, and so on.

Examine the Attributes

Order Management sends different details to Promising depending on whether Order Management has scheduled the order line:

Type of Attribute	Description
Requested	The name of the attribute includes the word requested. Order Management hasn't scheduled and or shipped the fulfillment line. For example, Requested Item, Requested Quantity, or Requested Ship Date. You can't change the value for most of these attributes, but you can change the Requested Ship From Warehouse and the Requested Shipping Method.
Scheduled	The name of the attribute includes the word scheduled. Order Management has scheduled but not yet shipped the fulfillment line. You can check availability for a scheduled order line to see if you can improve the promising result.
Result	The name of the attribute includes the word available or expected. An attribute that contains the result of Promising analyzing your supply chain and promising an item. For example, Available Item, Available Quantity, or Expected Ship From Warehouse. You can't modify the value of a promising result, but you can influence it by changing some other attribute, such as changing the Requested Ship From Warehouse. The values that you set provide a way for you to simulate different fulfillment scenarios. Assume the item on the line is the AS54888 computer, the requested ship date is March 1, and the line doesn't allow substitutions. The availability result suggests to use the AS54888 but with a delayed, expected ship date of March 10. You change the order line to allow a substitution,then refresh the result. The availability result now specifies to use a substitute item, the AS6000 computer, with an expected ship date of March 1.

Type of Attribute

Description

Requested

The name of the attribute includes the word requested.

Order Management hasn't scheduled and or shipped the fulfillment line.

For example, Requested Item, Requested Quantity, or Requested Ship Date.

You can't change the value for most of these attributes, but you can change the Requested Ship From Warehouse and the Requested Shipping Method.

Scheduled

The name of the attribute includes the word scheduled.

Order Management has scheduled but not yet shipped the fulfillment line.

You can check availability for a scheduled order line to see if you can improve the promising result.

Result

The name of the attribute includes the word available or expected.

An attribute that contains the result of Promising analyzing your supply chain and promising an item.

For example, Available Item, Available Quantity, or Expected Ship From Warehouse.

You can't modify the value of a promising result, but you can influence it by changing some other attribute, such as changing the Requested Ship From Warehouse.

The values that you set provide a way for you to simulate different fulfillment scenarios.

Assume the item on the line is the AS54888 computer, the requested ship date is March 1, and the line doesn't allow substitutions.

The availability result suggests to use the AS54888 but with a delayed, expected ship date of March 10.
You change the order line to allow a substitution,then refresh the result.
The availability result now specifies to use a substitute item, the AS6000 computer, with an expected ship date of March 1.

Schedule the Order Line

To schedule the line, select it, then click Actions > Schedule.

Promising doesn't commit any changes that you make on the Check Availability page until you schedule the line. If you schedule the line, then Promising sends the revised line to Order Management and removes the line from the Check Availability page.

Check Availability in Order Management

Order Management displays order lines according to the requested date for each line. The results try to minimize delay for each line. You can change each line, such as changing the priority or the requested ship from warehouse, or remove a line from a shipment set. You can schedule the promising results to meet your needs, such as to incur less cost but more delay:

What You Set	What Promising Does
Scheduled Shipment Date	Uses the Scheduled Shipment Date that you set to calculate the Scheduled Arrival Date.
Scheduled Arrival Date	Uses the Scheduled Arrival Date that you set to calculate the Scheduled Shipment Date.
Scheduled Shipment Date and Scheduled Arrival Date	Uses both values to promise the item.

Note

Promising considers shipping methods, lead times, transit times, calendars, and so on to determine the dates that it calculates.
if you don't set the shipping method, carrier, mode of transport, and service level, then Promising sets them.
If you set the scheduled shipment date, scheduled arrival date, and shipping method, then Promising doesn't consider the transit time between the source and destination.
If you set a shipment date or arrival date that isn't a working day, then Promising uses the previous working day to calculate the dates.
If all lines in a shipment set have the same ship from organization, ship to location, and shipping method, then you can set the scheduled dates for these lines. You must use the same scheduled shipment date or scheduled arrival date on each line.

For details, see Schedule Order Lines Manually.

View Availability Details

Use a Redwood page to review the organizations, resources, and supplier locations that Promising planned to fulfill demand. For each fulfillment step, you can also see the lead time needed to purchase, make, and transfer components, materials, and end items.

Try it:

Go to the Order Management work area, then click Tasks > Sales Orders (New).
Create a new sales order, add an order line, then click Save.
Select an order line, then click More Actions > Check Availability.
On the Check Availability page, click More Actions > View Availability Details.

As an alternative, search for and open an order that's in Processing status, select one or more order lines, then select the action.

Examine your supply sources, quantities, lead times, and supply dates at all levels of your supply chain network that participate in fulfilling the order line. Here are some of the attributes that you can examine:

Pegging Type
Requested Ship Date
Supply Date or Start Date
Arrival Date or End Date
Ship-From Organization
Destination
Supplier

You can click View Order Details > Pegging Properties to examine static configuration details, such as lead times.

See Redwood: View Availability Details.

Check Availability and Reschedule Order Lines

Use Redwood's Check Availability page to select, prioritize, and reschedule a set of order lines. Enter search terms to select a subset of order lines by item, customer, organization, and other criteria, sorted by request date.

You can override priority values to adjust the promising sequence and then check availability to simulate rescheduling. Edit order line attributes or groups of lines to evaluate different promising scenarios. When you are satisfied with the result, you can schedule the lines to update their fulfillment dates, sourcing, and other details according to the latest supply:

Modify values in the Priority attribute to specify how you want to prioritize supply across order lines.
The page comes predefined to start with the number 10 and use increments of 10, but you can use any numeric sequence.
Click Refresh to see the results of your revised priority.

See Redwood: Check Availability and Reschedule Order Lines.

Review Supply Availability

Use Redwood's Supply Availability page to display the total, consumed, net, and cumulative supply for an item across more than one organization, work area, work center, resource, or supplier site over time.

You can review the supply for an item across your supply chain to determine the amount of supply that’s available for each item organization and to diagnose delay.

Try it:

Go to Home > Order Management > Show More > ctrl+f > Supply Availability.
Select your item, then examine the results.

Note

The Supply Availability page displays the supply that's currently available for each item organization.
You can expand or collapse the period or week.
You can also access the Supply Availability page through a sales order. Open your order line in the Order Management work area, click More Actions > Check Availability > More Actions > Review Supply Availability.
For details about the measures, read See What Supply is Available and Allocated.

The Supply Availability Report:

Displays details according to your organization's local time zone.
Displays data according to the horizon's start and end dates. The report might display data from the day before the current date, depending on the time zone. For details about horizons, see Manage Promising Profiles.
Displays data only for items where the promising mode is Supply Chain Search. It doesn't display data for Infinite Availability or Lead Time modes. For background, see Promising Modes for ATP Rules.
Uses the calendar for the organization that you specify in the MSC_ATP_REPORT_MASTER_ORG profile option.

See Redwood: Review Supply Availability.

Modify Order Lines but Don't Consume Supply

Use Redwood's Check Availability page to modify the item and fulfillment options on an order line that's in draft status, and then check availability without scheduling the line. You can then make more changes to the item, ship-from organization, ship method, and other details to improve results before you commit supply.

Visualize the most acceptable simulation results in the Order Management work area without actually scheduling the draft order.

Make your modifications, then click Apply on the Check Availability page:

The action will return the final simulation results to Oracle Order Management without scheduling in Oracle Global Order Promising.
The results can include modifications that you make to various attributes and other changes, such as ship-from organization, shipping method, splits, and so on.
Click Submit on the sales order in the Order Management work area to submit your changes to fulfillment.

Note

The final simulation results won't return the scheduled ship date or the scheduled arrival date.
You can't use substitutions with this feature.
The Check Availability page will automatically unschedule a draft sales order when you click Apply.

If you revise an order:

You can't split lines on the Check Availability page.
Order Management puts the revision into draft status. If you click Apply, then Order Management will keep the original scheduled dates but will update the attributes that you revised. Collections will ignore the order while it's in draft status. We recommend that you submit the order or unschedule it.

For more, see: