Material Availability
Whether an order can be made: what is on hand, what is already promised to somebody else, what is on its way, and what has to be bought.
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Availability Checks
The question “can this be made”, asked of a sales order or a configuration, and the answer as it stood at that moment. Kept as a document because the shortage it found is what a requisition was raised from.
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Availability · Lines
Line by line: what is on hand, what of that is already promised, what is on order, what is on a production order, and what is genuinely short. The four are kept apart because “we have none” and “it is all promised elsewhere” want different things done about them.
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Material Reservations
Stock promised to one order and no longer offered to another. Without a reservation two orders are both told the same bar is available, and the second one finds out on the shop floor.
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