As a Production Planner, you want to ensure that all production orders scheduled for the upcoming week have enough components available. You run the MSW/PSW to look at production orders that have a release date during the next seven days.

The Shortage Report tab in the MSW/PSW displays all production order component records with a status of Projected Shortage or Shortage. You look at the Supply/Demand Summary data under the Components tab in Production Order Maintenance to see the cumulative supply and demand information for that production order component detail record. To get more information, you look at data under the Supply/Demand Details tab to view the MRP details the system used to calculate the production order component status.

You have several options to resolve the shortage. You can reschedule either supply or demand. For example, to reschedule supply you can reschedule a purchase order receipt if the component is purchased. Or, if the component is manufactured, you can reschedule a production order. To reschedule demand, you could reschedule a sales order or forecast demand.

Once you make the change, refresh the data to determine if the shortage no longer exists for the component.