QAD 2017 Enterprise Edition > User Guides > Planning and Scheduling Workbenches > Overview > Common Features > Visual Indicators
  
Visual Indicators
The MSW displays visual status indicators to direct your attention to potential capacity and item shortage issues. The projected quantity on hand (POH) displays as soon as items display on the Schedule Grid. The system calculates the POH for every item with supply/demand in the scheduling horizon, and applies the POH status indicator to every resource that has quantities scheduled.

Visual Indicator Summary
 
Panel/Frame
Object
Indicator
Meaning
Resource Panel
Resources
The resource includes one or more items with a supply shortage (negative POH).
MSW Capacity Panel
Remaining capacity
The planned capacity was consumed from prior days, to satisfy the required capacity needs of the date column highlighted in yellow.
Period Available Capacity
 
• Period available capacity is less than or equal to 0 for every day prior to this date.
AND
• Required capacity is greater than capacity.
 
 
• Excess capacity for the day is consumed by a future shortage.
• The system consumes excess capacity from a prior day.
MSW Schedule Grid and Supply/Demand Panel
Item number
 
Projected on-hand is less than 0 (zero) within the firm scheduling horizon.
 
Projected On-Hand
Projected on-hand is less than safety stock value plus seasonal demand within the firm scheduling horizon.
 
 
Projected on-hand is negative within firm schedule period.
Alternate production lines without active orders are not colored for POH. For example, when you have the same item on two production lines, and you schedule quantities on the first production line but not the second line, the system does not display colored schedule grid cells for the second production line.
 
 
 
Projected and Status POH
The repetitive POH calculation is as follows:
WO Open quantity + Nettable Inv – Total demand
Where:
Nettable Inv = From MRP Detail (23.16)
Total Demand = Independent + dependent + forecast + seasonal
WO Open quantity = Schedule Net Requirement Due (SNRD)
Note: SNRD is the summation of production order open quantities for all production orders for a specific order due date and production line.
The POH status for both repetitive and production orders derives from the POH calculation. If any POH for that item is below safety stock, then POH status is set to safety stock status. If any POH is < 0 then the POH status is set to below-zero status.
Additionally, the repetitive and production order PAC status derives from the POH calculation. If any POH for that item is below safety stock, then POH status is set to safety stock status. If any POH is < 0 then the POH status is set to below-zero status.