Reserve Parts – A summary of the activity

This activity allows you to reserve spare parts for the work order. You can reserve standard as well as non-standard spare parts for the work order. Standard spare parts can be a disposition item or a min-max or reorder level item. A disposition item is an item for which only a minimum quantity of the item is maintained in the inventory. A min-max or re-order level item is an item which is always available in the inventory. Reservation of items is done only for a disposition item.

Whenever the user attempts to reserve an item, a demand will get generated for that item. This demand will be posted in ”Inventory Planning” business component of Ramco Corporate Solutions as a requirement for the item. This is referred to as soft reservation.

For every demand that is posted, the system will try to peg it to an available stock or will try to peg it to a scheduled receipt (Purchase Request or a Purchase Order). If that does not happen, the system will consider the demand as a problem demand and the scheduled quantity as the problem quantity. When an MRP is run, the system will peg it to a new scheduled receipt or a purchase request will be raised for that Item. This is referred to as soft pegging.

In the case of soft pegging the reservation of spare parts will keep changing based on any requirements. If there is an urgent requirement for spare parts for an earlier date, the pegging will be removed and the new requirement will be fulfilled first. In this situation, the pegging can get changed at any given moment to fulfill a new requirement. To avoid this, the hard pegging facility is provided. The planner can post a demand as a hard pegged demand. Once the item has been pegged, the pegged link will continue without being disturbed whenever any new requirement arises.

Refer to the example for more details on pegging.

You can also unreserve the items that have already been allocated to the work order in this activity.

Getting familiar with the pages inside

What you can do in this activity

Reserve spare parts for the work order

Selectively reserve spare parts

Enter non-standard spare parts

Raise a consolidated purchase request

View work order pegging

Analyze the supply and demand of item

Reserve spare parts for the work order

You can reserve spare parts for the work order in this activity.

• Select the work order for which you wish to reserve spare parts in the “Select Work Orders” page.

• Use the “Reserve Parts” page to reserve spare parts for the work order.

Selectively reserve spare parts

You can reserve an item for various work orders in this page.

• Use the “Selective Reservation” page to selectively reserve spare parts.

Enter non-standard spare parts

You can enter non-standard spare parts for the work order.

• Use the “Non Standard Parts” page to enter non standard spare parts for the work order.

Raise a consolidated purchase request

You can raise a consolidated purchase request for procuring the items required for the work order.

• Use the “Raise consolidated Purchase Request” page to raise a purchase request for both the standard and non standard spare parts required for the work order.

View work order pegging

You can view the details of pegging done for the work order in this page.

• Use the “View Order Pegging” page to view the details of work order pegging.

Analyze the supply and demand of item

You can analyze the supply and demand of the item in this page.

• Use the “Analyze Supply Demand” page to analyze the supply and demand for a particular item.