Setting Up ATP Processing

Perform the following tasks to have the system calculate ATP during order processing:

Enter Yes to activate ATP calculation functions for order line-item processing.

Enter the number of days from the current system date that the system should consider when determining ATP.

You can specify an item-specific horizon in Item Master Maintenance (1.4.1) or Item-Site Planning Maintenance (1.4.17). If you do, that value overrides the control program setting.

Enter 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 to select the method the system should use to calculate the allowable ATP amount for family items. The method specifies which family items and component items should be considered when determining family item ATP. The default is 1.

0. Include all component item orders and exclude all family item orders.

1. Include all component item orders and include all family item orders. Use this method when you have a high degree of common components and a limited number of unique or difficult-to-manufacture or assemble items

2. Include all component item orders and only family item orders outside the item’s time fence. Use this method when you have a high degree of common components but only want family item orders outside the item’s time fence. This lets you view longer term item and component availability.

3. Include only all component item orders inside the item’s time fence and all family item orders. Use this method when you want all family item orders but only components inside the time fence. This lets you view near-term availability of components but allows you the option of longer term item orders.

4. Include only component item orders inside the item’s time fence and only family item orders outside the item’s time fence. Use this method when you want the system to ignore component items outside the item’s time fence and family item orders inside the time fence. This lets you view near-term availability of components on selected family item orders.

The settings provide a way to determine availability inside a time frame, while aggregating availability outside that same time frame. You can enforce some schedule stability in the near term while entering orders in the longer term where you can more easily adjust the schedule.

Enter Yes to calculate the promise date automatically for order-line items. See here.

When this field is Yes and you have set up delivery times in Delivery Transit Time Maintenance (2.16.1), the system calculates promise dates.

See QAD Master Data User Guide for information on delivery transit times.

Note: Entering a promise date manually in the order header frame prevents the system from calculating a promise date for order lines when you enter the lines. However, if you subsequently modify the due date on a line, the system recalculates the promise date when this field is Yes.

When you confirm an order and the system changes the due date based on one of the Change Due Date fields in the confirmation program, you can choose to automatically update the order-line promise date. To do so, Calculate Promise Date must be Yes both in the control program and in the confirmation program.