Inventory Planning Display

Form ID: (AM400000)

Note: This form is available only if the Material Requirements Planning or Distribution Requirements Planning feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.

On this form, you can view the list of planning recommendations that the system generated during the last time inventory planning was executed on the Regenerate Inventory Planning (AM505000) form.

You can create a purchase order, transfer order, or production orders based on any number of planning recommendations by using this form. To do this, in the table you select the Included check box for each planning recommendation that you want to include and click the appropriate button on the form toolbar. You can create an order regardless of the replenishment source specified in each included planning recommendation.

If consolidation settings are specified on the Inventory Planning Preferences (AM100000) form, the system consolidates items from multiple demand documents (such as sales orders) into one planning recommendation. For more information, see Inventory Planning Configuration: System-Wide Settings.

Form Toolbar

The form toolbar includes standard and form-specific buttons and commands. For the list of standard buttons, see Form Toolbar and More Menu. The form-specific commands are listed in the following table.


Command	Description
Purchase	Opens the Create Purchase Order dialog box, in which you specify the settings of the purchase order the system will create for the planning recommendations that have the Included check box selected.
Manufacture	Opens the Create Production Orders dialog box, in which you specify the settings of the production orders the system will create for the planning recommendations that have the Included check box selected.
Transfer	Opens the Create Transfer Order dialog box, in which you specify the settings of the transfer order the system will create for the planning recommendations that have the Included check box selected. Note: If you have selected multiple planning recommendations to be converted to transfer orders, make sure that the value in the Warehouse column of each planning recommendation is the same, as well as in Transfer Warehouse column. Otherwise, the system will not let you create the transfer order when you click the Create button in the dialog box.
Assemble Kit	Opens the Create Kit Assemblies dialog box, in which you can specify group the lines and correct required quantities and initiate the creation of kit assembly records on the Kit Assembly (IN307000) form.
Results by Item	Opens the Inventory Planning Results by Item (AM404000) form in a new browser tab for the item and warehouse in the planning recommendation selected in the table.

Table 1. Create Purchase Order Dialog BoxThis dialog box opens when you click Purchase on the form toolbar or the More menu. You use the dialog box to view and change the settings that the system will use when creating the purchase order on the Purchase Orders (PO301000) form for the selected planning recommendations. You can also view the list of items from the planning recommendations that will be added to the purchase order.
Element	Description
In the Summary area of the dialog box, you can view and change (if needed) the general settings to be used for the purchase order.
Order Type	The type of the purchase order, which is automatically set to Normal and is unavailable for editing.
Order Nbr.	The reference number of the purchase order, which you may need to specify, depending on the settings of the numbering sequence specified for the numbering sequence assigned to purchase orders of the type on the Purchase Orders Preferences (PO101000) form. If this box is empty, enter a reference number manually. If it contains a string (such as <NEW>) and is unavailable for editing, the system will assign the new reference number.
Vendor	The vendor from which the items will be purchased. If the Preferred Vendor ID is the same in the selected rows, the system inserts this vendor in this box. If the vendors differ in the selected rows, then you must specify the vendor.
Vendor Location	The vendor location from which the items will be received. This box is displayed only if the Business Account Locations feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
In the table, you can view the list of the items from the selected planning recommendations that will be added to the purchase order. The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar.
Inventory ID	The identifier of the item to be purchased.
Subitem	The subitem of the selected item. This column is visible only if the Inventory Subitems feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Important: The Inventory Subitems check box has been removed from the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form because the functionality associated with the Inventory Subitems feature will be phased out. If you have this feature enabled in your system, the associated functionality remains available. To disable the feature, contact your MYOB support provider.
Source	The replenishment source of the item, which is copied from the planning recommendation and is unavailable for editing.
Warehouse	The warehouse to which the item will be received. The warehouse is copied from the planning recommendation and is unavailable for editing.
Quantity	The quantity of the item to be purchased, which is copied from the planning recommendation. You can change the quantity, if needed.
UOM	The unit of measure (UOM) in which the quantity of the item is specified.
Group Nbr.	The number of the group of consolidated planning recommendations. The system merges lines with items that have the same Inventory ID and the same group number into a single line in the created supply document. To cause the system merge lines, you should specify the same number greater than 0 in each needed line.
Plan Date	The date when the item must be received from the vendor; the system copies this date from the Promise Date column of the planning recommendation. This date is unavailable for editing.
The dialog box has the following buttons.
Create	Creates the purchase order and closes the dialog box.
Cancel	Closes the dialog box without creating the purchase order.

Table 2. Create Production Orders Dialog Box
This dialog box opens when you click Manufacture on the form toolbar or the More menu. You use the dialog box to view the list of items from the selected planning recommendations for which the system will create production orders on the Production Order Maintenance (AM201500) form. You can also view the settings to be used for the production orders and change the quantity or the production order type, if needed.
Element	Description
The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar. The table in the dialog box has the following columns.
Inventory ID	The identifier of the item to be produced.
Subitem	The subitem of the selected item. This column is visible only if the Inventory Subitems feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Important: The Inventory Subitems check box has been removed from the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form because the functionality associated with the Inventory Subitems feature will be phased out. If you have this feature enabled in your system, the associated functionality remains available. To disable the feature, contact your MYOB support provider.
Source	The replenishment source of the item, which is copied from the planning recommendation and is unavailable for editing.
Warehouse	The warehouse to which the item will be received. The warehouse is copied from the planning recommendation and is unavailable for editing.
Quantity	The quantity of the item to be produced, which is copied from the planning recommendation. You can change the quantity, if needed.
UOM	The unit of measure (UOM) in which the quantity of the item is specified.
Plan Date	The date when the item must be produced; the system copies this date from the Promise Date column of the planning recommendation.
Group Nbr.	The number of the group of consolidated planning recommendations. The system merges lines with items that have the same Inventory ID and the same group number into a single line in the created supply document. To cause the system merge lines, you should specify the same number greater than 0 in each needed line.
Order Type	The type of the production order, which the system inserts based on the production settings. You can select another type, if needed.
Production Nbr.	The reference number of the production order, which you may need to specify, depending on the settings of the numbering sequence specified for the numbering sequence assigned to production orders of the type on the Production Order Types (AM201100) form. If this box is empty, enter a reference number manually. If it contains a string (such as <NEW>) and is unavailable for editing, the system will assign the new reference number.
The dialog box has the following buttons.
Create	Creates the production order for each of the selected planning recommendation and closes the dialog box.
Cancel	Closes the dialog box without creating the production order or orders.

Table 3. Create Transfer Order Dialog Box
This dialog box opens when you click Transfer on the form toolbar or the More menu. You use the dialog box to view and change the settings that the system will use when creating a transfer order for the included planning recommendations on the Sales Orders (SO301000) form. You can also view the list of items from the selected planning recommendations that will be added to the transfer order.

Note: If you have selected multiple planning recommendations to be converted to transfer orders, make sure that the value in the Warehouse column of each planning recommendation is the same, as well as in Transfer Warehouse column. Otherwise, the system will not let you create the transfer order when you click the Create button in the dialog box.
Element	Description
In the Summary area of the dialog box, you can view and change (if needed) the general settings of the transfer order.
Order Type	The type of the transfer order, which the system copies from the Default Transfer Order Type box of the Sales Orders Preferences (SO101000) form. You can change the type, if needed.
Order Nbr.	The reference number of the transfer order, which you may need to specify, depending on the settings of the numbering sequence specified for the numbering sequence assigned to production orders of the type on the Sales Orders Preferences (SO101000) form. If this box is empty, enter a reference number manually. If it contains a string (such as <NEW>) and is unavailable for editing, the system will assign the new reference number.
From Warehouse	The warehouse from which the items will be transferred. The system copies the value from the Warehouse column of the selected planning recommendations. You can change the warehouse, if needed.
In the table, you can view the list of the items from the selected planning recommendations that will be added to the transfer order. The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar. The table contains the following columns.
Inventory ID	The identifier of the item to be transferred, which is copied from the row and is unavailable for editing.
Subitem	The subitem of the selected item. This column is visible only if the Inventory Subitems feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Important: The Inventory Subitems check box has been removed from the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form because the functionality associated with the Inventory Subitems feature will be phased out. If you have this feature enabled in your system, the associated functionality remains available. To disable the feature, contact your MYOB support provider.
Source	The replenishment source of the item, which is copied from the planning recommendation and is unavailable for editing.
Warehouse	The warehouse to which the item will be received. The warehouse is copied from the planning recommendation and is unavailable for editing.
Quantity	The quantity of the item to be transferred, which is copied from the planning recommendation. You can change the quantity if needed.
UOM	The unit of measure (UOM) in which the quantity of the item is specified.
Group Nbr.	The number of the group of consolidated planning recommendations. The system merges lines with items that have the same Inventory ID and the same group number into a single line in the created supply document. To cause the system merge lines, you should specify the same number greater than 0 in each needed line.
Plan Date	The date when the item must be received in the source warehouse. The system copies this date from the Promise Date column of the planning recommendation. This date is unavailable for editing.
The dialog box has the following buttons.
Create	Creates the transfer order and closes the dialog box.
Cancel	Closes the dialog box without creating the order.

Selection Area

In this area, you can select the reference number of a document related to a particular item, and the system will display only rows related to this document in the table. This capability could be useful when the consolidation of documents is configured on the Inventory Planning Preferences (AM100000) form. Specifically, you can use any of these elements when multiple demand documents containing items with the same ID are consolidated into one row of the table on this form with the planning recommendation and the reference numbers of the original demand documents are not displayed in the table.


Element	Description
Related Document	The reference number of the demand document whose items are listed in the table. You can select a reference number to narrow the results to only this document's items.
Related Parent Document	The reference number of the demand document that contains the demand generated by the related document (specified in the Related Document box) and whose items are listed in the table. You can select a reference number to view only items of demand documents for which this is a parent.
Related Product Document	The reference number of the demand document that contains the top-level demand. If a user selects a reference number, the table shows all items of the demand documents of this document.

Table

The table contains the list of planning recommendations created by the system during the most recent regeneration of inventory planning. All of the settings in columns are read-only except the Source column.

The table toolbar includes only standard buttons. For the list of standard buttons, see Table Toolbar.


Column	Description
Included	An unlabeled check box that you select to include an item in the created order if you then click an applicable command on the form toolbar or the More menu and create a supply document.
Inventory ID	The stock item for which a planning recommendation has been created.
Kit Revision	The revision of the kit specification that has been used for inventory planning. This column appears only if the Kit Assembly feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Note: This column is hidden by default. You can display this column in the table by using the Column Configuration dialog box. For details, see Table Layout: Process Activity.
Subitem	The subitem of the selected item. This column is visible only if the Inventory Subitems feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Important: The Inventory Subitems check box has been removed from the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form because the functionality associated with the Inventory Subitems feature will be phased out. If you have this feature enabled in your system, the associated functionality remains available. To disable the feature, contact your MYOB support provider.
Description	The description of the stock item.
Item Class	The item class to which the item belongs.
Warehouse	The warehouse in which the items will be received.
Source	The replenishment source to be used for the item in the specified warehouse. The system copies this value either from either of the following places. The Source box on the Inventory Planning tab of the Item Warehouse Details (IN204500) form for the item–warehouse pair if warehouse-specific settings exist for this pair The Source box on the Inventory Planning tab of the Stock Items (IN202500) form if no warehouse-specific settings exist for this item–warehouse pair You can change the replenishment source for the planning recommendation by selecting one of the following options: None: No replenishment is required for the item. Purchase: The item will be purchased in the quantities calculated based on the replenishment settings for this warehouse. Manufacturing: The item will be manufactured. This item should have a default bill of material or a planning bill of material specified on the Inventory Planning tab of the Stock Items (IN202500) form. Transfer: The item will be transferred from a transfer warehouse. If this option is selected, you must make sure the appropriate warehouse is selected in the Transfer Warehouse column. This option is displayed only if the Multiple Warehouses feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Drop-Shipment: The system ignores drop-shipment sales order lines during inventory planning. Attention: You cannot create a supply order for the planning recommendation if this option is selected. This option is displayed only if the Drop Shipments feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Purchase to Order: The system considers sales order lines and purchase order lines of this type during regeneration of inventory planning. The item will be purchased only in the quantities required to fulfill customer orders. Attention: You cannot create a supply order for the planning recommendation if this option is selected. This option is displayed only if the Sales Order to Purchase Order Link feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. Kit Assembly: The item is a kit that can be assembled on the Kit Assembly (IN307000) form. The demand requirements have been generated for the stock components of the kit according to the kit specification. This options appears only if the Kit Assembly feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
Base Qty.	The quantity of the item in the base unit of measure.
Promise Date	The date when this item is needed, which is calculated based on dates from demand documents. A date earlier than today indicates that the items may not be available in time to satisfy the demand.
Action Date	The date when the supply order must be created. The system calculates this date based on the promise date and lead time (such as the vendor lead time for a suggested purchase order). A date earlier than today indicates that the items may not be available in time to satisfy the demand.
Type	The document type, which is a supply or demand document. The type can be any of the following: Unknown: Either supply or demand Sales Order: Demand Blanket Order: Demand Consolidated Shipment: Demand Purchase Order: Supply Forecast: Demand Production Order: Supply Production Material: Demand Stock Adjustment: Demand Safety Stock: Demand Reorder Point: Demand Requirement Plan: Demand Inventory Planning Requirement: Demand MPS: Supply The option is shown only if the Material Requirements Planning feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form. MRP Plan: Supply The option is shown only if the Material Requirements Planning feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features form. MRP Requirement: Demand The option is shown only if the Material Requirements Planning feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features form. Transfer Demand: Demand Transfer Supply: Supply Planned Transfer Demand: Demand Assembly Demand: Demand Assembly Supply : Supply Planned Kit Assembly Demand: Demand Sales Order Non-Stock Kit: Demand Forecast Non-Stock Kit: Demand Inventory Demand: Demand Inventory Supply : Supply Field Service: Demand
Preferred Vendor ID	The reference number of the demand document that contains the top-level demand. If a user selects a reference number, the table shows all items of the demand documents of this document. The vendor ID specified for the item–warehouse pair in the Preferred Parameters section of the Item Warehouse Details (IN204500) form. If no item–warehouse pair exists for the stock item, the default vendor ID specified on the Vendors tab of the Stock Items (IN202500) form.
Vendor Name	The name of the preferred vendor.
Related Document	The reference number of the demand document that contains the item. For manufacturing-related documents, this element also includes the document type.
Related Parent Document	The reference number of the demand document that contains the parent item if the item in the planning recommendation is a material or subassembly. For manufacturing-related documents, this element also includes the document type.
Related Product Document	The reference number of the demand document that contains a parent item of the top level—that is, the item whose bill of material includes a subassembly, which in turn requires the item in the planning recommendation as a material for production. For manufacturing-related documents, this element also includes the document type.

Side Panel

By using the side panel, you can continue viewing the list of planning recommendations on the form while simultaneously viewing information related to the selected order.

The side panel has one tab, which you can view by clicking the tab's icon. This tab is described below.


Tab	Description
Results by Item	The Inventory Planning Results by Item (AM404000) form, which displays information about the demand documents and planning recommendations that include the combination of the inventory item and warehouse copied from the selected row.