| Generate Assembly Order Lists for Critical Parts (tiasc2245m000) |  |
| Use this session to generate lists of assembly orders that cannot be executed due to a lack of assembly parts. A report of these orders is displayed in the Assembly Part Shortage - Assembly Orders (tiasc2545m000) session. Note ERP LN always limits the check to orders that are related to critical assembly parts. Refer to the Items - Production (tiipd0101m000) session for items that are critical. Double-click an item and click the Methods tab to view the Critical for Inventory Check field. The lists of assembly orders you want to generate, are based on the list of shortage parts that is generated in the Check Inventory (tiasc2240m000) session. Therefore, you must be sure that the list of assembly parts is up-to-date, before you generate the lists of orders. To generate lists of orders, you must specify a range of requirement dates and assembly parts. Orders that require any of these parts on any of these dates, are included in the list. The generation of the order lists takes into account: Whether there are blocked orders for the combinations of requirement dates and assembly parts in the specified range. If available, the blocked orders will all be listed. The shortage quantity is not used as a limit for the amount of blocked orders that are selected. The importance of blocked orders originates from the fact that blocked orders are included in the inventory check. Because the parts requirements of blocked orders are also checked, although these parts will not be used as long as the order is blocked, it is very important to see if the shortage quantity does or does not exceed the blocked quantity. Also, blocked orders are orders that require some action. Therefore, it is important to keep them in view. The amount of assembly parts that are in short supply. If necessary, ERP LN adds not-blocked orders to the lists, until the total shortage quantity of the assembly parts is reached. The number you specify in the Number of Extra Orders field. Extra orders on the list can be useful if you want to block other orders than ERP LN suggests, or if you want to check if orders can be rescheduled (to an earlier date). The selection criteria you specify in the Select Orders Based On field. It can be the case that several (not-blocked) orders are available to be blocked for the solution of the shortage problem. Then it is better to block orders that have a low priority. Therefore, ERP LN requires certain criteria to select the right orders. These criteria are grouped under two headings: Planned Offline Date and Assembly Order Status. Refer to the field Help for further details. Whether the Regenerate Order Lists check box is selected. If you run this session, a list of orders is created for each combination of requirement date and assembly part, that falls in the specified ranges. If you select this check box, ERP LN deletes any existing order list that falls in the specified ranges. The new lists replace the existing lists. If you did not select the check box, the existing lists are only updated. This means that ERP LN compares the new lists with the existing lists. If new lists are found, they are stored, and if new orders are found for an existing list, they are added to the existing list. Note The inventory can only be checked if in Enterprise Planning the item's order system is Planned. Refer to the Order System field on the Settings tab in the Item - Ordering (tcibd2100s000) session. Related topics Assembly control overview Critical items Assembly orders Line sequencing and rule types in Assembly Control Assembly line station utilization
Fields | Description
Requirement Date | Specify the date or period for which the check must be performed.
Regenerate Order Lists | When you run this session, lists of orders are created for each combination of the dates and assembly parts you specified; unless for that combination no shortages occur or no orders can be found. Also a Number of Extra Orders will be added to the list if you specified so. These lists are displayed in the Assembly Part Shortage - Assembly Orders (tiasc2545m000) session for each combination of day and assembly part. If you select this check box, ERP LN deletes any existing order list for each combination of day and assembly part, that falls in the specified range. So the new lists replace the existing lists. If for a certain combination of assembly part and requirement date no new list could be generated, any existing list for that combination is still deleted. If you clear this check box, ERP LN compares the new lists with the existing lists. If some of the newly created lists do not exist yet, they will be added as new lists. If ERP LN has found new orders for an existing list, they are added to this list. However, the orders on the existing list all remain, even if they are outdated. So the update is only partial. It is, therefore, recommended to use this option only for performance reasons, when you are trying a new check immediately after the preceding one.
Select Orders Based On | Select the set of criteria ERP LN has to consider, if it has to choose out of several orders which to add to the list. The orders with the lowest priority are selected first. There are two sets of criteria: Planned Offline Date and Assembly Order Status. Both sets consist of four criteria. All criteria are listed as fields in the Assembly Part Shortage - Assembly Orders (tiasc2545m000) session. The sets differ in the order of their second and third criterion. The criteria of these sets, in their order of priority are: Planned Offline Date Blocked (Yes has priority over No). Planned offline date (an earlier date has priority over a later date). Status (Sequenced has priority over Planned). Demand type (Sales Order has priority over Pseudo Order). Assembly Order Status Blocked (Yes has priority over No). Status (Sequenced has priority over Planned). Planned offline date (an earlier date has priority over a later date). Demand type (Sales Order has priority over Pseudo Order). Note The first criterion is used differently from the other three. All blocked orders, for a certain combination of requirement date and assembly part, are always selected. If this is not sufficient to meet the total shortage quantity, the other three criteria are used to select other orders, untill the shortage quantity is reached. The planned offline date has respect to the offline date of the parent order. The criteria are listed in sequence of their priority, but the list of orders is displayed in reverse order: The lowest priority orders first, because they are the best candidates to block. However, the exact order in which the orders are listed depends not on these criteria, but on the view that is selected in the Assembly Part Shortage - Assembly Orders (tiasc2545m000) session.
Number of Extra Orders | For each combination of date and assembly part, ERP LN generates a list of orders that together contain the amount of assembly parts that are lacking for that day. If you want a longer list, specify a number of extra orders to be added. These orders are also selected according to the set of criteria you specified.
Commands | Description
Generate | Click to (re)generate lists of assembly orders that lack critical parts.