Material shortage for Planned Order (Discrete Job) in PWB

Question

Client has planned orders on planner workbench (PWB) ready to release as Discrete Jobs but, because they have frequent revisions, they waits till all components (required to build job) are onhand before releasing from PWB.
They would like an easy way to either check or be notified when the last component required for job is received into inventory so they can release from PWB. They cannot use the standard "Discrete Job Shortage Report" as the job is not created yet. And they don't want to release from PWB till ALL material is onhand
Could we create a custom report perhaps (using same logic as "WIP Mass Load" to determine all component required versus onhand), but does anyone have a better solution how we can solve this?
Regards,
Hugh
Edited by: user13050057 on 13-May-2010 02:09
Edited by: Hugh Parker on 13-May-2010 08:13

Answer 1

1) Why would you check for components of subassemblies? e.g. Say your BOM looks like this.
FG1 is made up of SA1 and SA2 and COMP1.
SA1 is made up of COMP2 and COMP3.
Say you are releasing planned order for FG1. As long as the planned order is pegged to onhand for SA1, SA2 and COMP1, you are good. Right?
2) If you have to add custom logic, I would do it using a when-validate-record personalization on the PWB. The personalization will call a function that accepts order number ; does all pegging checks and returns true or false. If it returns false, then the personalization returns error and does not allow release of the planned order. The function will have to be an interative program that traverses the pegging loop to ensure that all lowest level demands are pegged to onhand.
Hope this helps
Sandeep Gandhi