[ICS] Shortage Management Solution

Companies that manage the current availability of items at a detailed level and use Master Planning as part of their operational activities find it difficult to identify cases of item shortages and manage them effectively.

The MS Dynamics 365 F&O standard lacks the functionality to provide users with summary and detailed information about current shortages.

The Solution:

[ICS] Shortage Management Solution was developed to address this issue. It automatically collects data on current shortages and displays this information in a user-friendly format.

The following functions were included:

• Action types: Setup of the action types that the system will use to identify shortages. This means that the company can determine which Master Planning messages it considers to be indicators of shortages.
• Shortage calculation: Logic for collecting data on current shortage cases and generation of a summary report with consolidated information about shortages. This can be launched manually on demand or performed periodically.
• Shortage report: Generates a report with data on current shortage cases, displayed in both detailed and aggregated views. The detailed view displays shortage cases per demand. The aggregated view displays shortage information per shortage period.
• Shortage hierarchy: Designs the shortage hierarchies and displays them to the user. This is applied to bill of materials (BOM) items when a shortage of one component at the lowest level can cause shortages at all other BOM levels.

The Benefits:

The key benefits from implementing [ICS] Shortage Management Solution include:

• Get Shortage report with all the details – a report with detailed information on all current shortages per the required Master plan.
• Collect shortage data on periodic basis – the Shortage calculation functionality is set to run immediately after MRP and will analyze the latest Master Planning results and generate a final report on the shortages in the system.
• View full shortage hierarchy – the ability to view the full shortage hierarchy for any BOM item and identify the lowest-level component shortage that is causing higher-level component shortages.