In this section, you can select against which requirement types you want to analyze. All alternatives are selected by default, except for the Daily pace/consumption alternative.
Material Requirement
This option considers shortages that occur from material requirements on the manufacturing orders.
Material Requirement (Suggestion)
This option considers shortages that occur from material requirements on the manufacturing order suggestions.
Customer Order
This option considers shortages that occur from requirements on the customer orders.
Customer Order (Forecast)
This option considers shortages that occur from requirements on the forecasted customer orders.
Sales Forecast
This option considers shortages that occur from requirements on the sales forecasts.
Stock Order
This option considers shortages that occur from requirements on the stock orders.
Stock Order (Suggestion)
This option considers shortages that occur from requirements on the stock order suggestions. This and the previous options are available only if you have installed the supplement Warehouse Management.
Daily Pace / Consumption
(Not default) As opposed to the other options, this option does not check against reservations in the parts' order window. Instead, this option makes a control to see if definite shortage (balance < 0) occurs before the planned arrival. The check is based on the parts' current balance and daily pace (consumption).
Show Consumption at Next Level
This option appears only if you have selected the option Daily pace/consumption. A control is also made for parts at the next level up, in order to see if the parts will be below the reorder point (balance < ROP) before the planned arrival of the selected orders. This is done in order to see which parts at the next level that can be affected by a delayed arrival.
Levels
Here you can select the number of levels for structure parts that you want to include in the analysis. You can use a maximum of 30 levels, 9 levels are selected by default.