Vendor Capacity
Vendors can have a limited capacity to repair or manufacture new parts, but the Order Plan process assumes that the customer can procure an unlimited amount and repair all bad material. The Vendor Capacity feature respects the vendor capacity limits to avoid logistically infeasible ordering plans, and allows you to limit the amount that can be procured or repaired from a vendor in a month and assign a priority to the vendor location, so that the highest priority location gets used first for order fulfillment.
The Vendor Capacity feature can be used to:
• Procure and repair independently
• Specify capacity per month
• Define multiple vendors in specific priority order
Once the capacity of the highest priority vendor is consumed, the next highest priority vendor is used for orders.
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The Time-Phased ROP Order Policy must be enabled in order to use the Vendor Capacity feature.
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Enable Vendor Capacity
Follow these steps to enable the Vendor Capacity feature.
1. Verify that the Time-Phased ROP Order Policy is enabled. The Vendor Capacity feature is only functional when you are using Time-Phased ROP.
2. Verify that the proper user rights are set on the Settings tab of the User Rights Setup page for access to the Vendor Capacity specific pages:
◦ Vendor Location SKU Capacity
◦ Vendor Location SKU Priority
The default setting is View. To import or update records on the Vendor Location SKU Capacity and Vendor Location SKU Priority, be sure the Modify setting is also selected.
3. Verify the value of the OP_VENDOR_CAPACITY_DATE_INDEX global setting.
Use Vendor Capacity
After the Vendor Capacity feature is enabled, follow these recommended steps to use the feature.
1. Configure the Ordering Parameters.
Open the Ordering Parameter page and create a new or modify an existing ordering parameter. Select the General tab do the following:
2. Set the When Repair Capacity Is Fully Consumed attribute.
2. Use either of these two methods to load data into the Vendor Location SKU Capacity and Vendor Location SKU Priority pages.
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To import or update records on the Vendor Location SKU Capacity and Vendor Location SKU Priority, be sure the Modify setting is also selected for these User Rights.
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1. Use the Import page to load the data.
2. Manually load the data:
1. Open the Vendor Location SKU Capacity page and create or modify the capacity settings for a SKU at a Vendor Location.
2. Open the Vendor Location SKU Priority page and create or modify the priority settings for a SKU at a Vendor Location.
3. Run the Generate Order Plan AutoPilot process.
4. Review the Work Queue for any records with the following Review Reasons:
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Vendor capacity limit is preventing procurement orders (349)
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Procurement capacity for all the available vendors is fully consumed for the month with additional procurement orders needed.
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Vendor capacity limit is preventing repair orders (350)
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Repair capacity for all the available vendors is fully consumed for the month with additional repair orders needed.
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Primary vendor has reached procurement capacity limit (352)
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Primary procurement vendor capacity is fully consumed for the month with additional procurement orders needed.
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Primary vendor has reached repair capacity limit (353)
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Primary repair vendor capacity is fully consumed for the month with additional repair orders needed.
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