Availability of Components

Use

If you select Component availability in the configuration profile, by choosing the Confign initial screen tab, then the Configuration parameter tab, you see the Availability pushbutton on the value assignment screen in the configuration editor. You can use this pushbutton to check the availability of the components that are selected according to the values you assign. The entire BOM is checked and exploded.

For this reason, in a SET structure we advise you to check availability of the individual materials (Process setting Sales order), not for the header material.

The availability check is just a snapshot, telling you whether the materials required are in stock at this moment. Several users can access the same material at once. This means that supply problems can sometimes be overlooked.

Only 2 pieces of a material are in stock, but the material is used in 3 BOMs. The availability check does not detect a supply problem. The availability check for all 3 BOMs shows 2 pieces in stock.

Features

On the value assignment screen, you can define additional settings for the availability check:

• You can specify that a list of all components is shown with details of their availability.
• You can specify that only missing parts are shown in the list.