Reserve Material
Explanation
This activity is used to reserve the required quantity of a part from the
respective project inventory. Project inventory belonging to other projects will
not be available.
The reservation can be done either manually or automatically. Manual
reservation provides the option of reserving material partially whilst automatic
reservation will reserve the full quantity at once. Reserved materials are being
tracked in Inventory Part, in stock reservation. It is also possible to unreserve the reserved parts with a negative quantity (i.e. -1 ). Reservation
makes it easy to carry out the issuing process.
Prerequisites
- The required quantity must be greater than already reserved quantity.
- The activity must be in the Released status.
System Effects
- The quantity is reserved, or unreserved if a negative quantity is
defined.
- The value in the Reserved Quantity field is updated on the ERMPL demand line.
- The Show Reservation right mouse button option is enabled
to view the reserved material.
Window
Project Navigator/Demand/ERMPL
Activity/Demand/ERMPL
Project/Demand/ERMPL
ERMPL
Related Window Descriptions
Project
Navigator/Demand/ERMPL
Activity/Demand/ERMPL
Project/Demand/ERMPL
ERMPL
Procedure
- Open the
Project
Navigator or the Project
window, and search for the respective project. Alternatively on the Activity
window, search for the required activity. Click on the
Demand/ERMPL
tab. Alternatively, simply open the ERMPL
window.
- Select the part to reserve, right-click and click Reserve or
Reserve manually. If reserving manually, the
Manual
Reservation dialog box will open. In the dialog box, enter the
quantity to reserve from the preferred inventory location then click OK.
Click Reserve manually and enter a negative quantity in the
dialog box in order to un-reserve already reserved items. Click OK.
- Once reserved or unreserved, right click on the part, and click Show
Reservation to observe the reserved details.