Purpose
This section explains how to reserve materials based on the forecast run results.
Exercise
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Open the Forecast / Reservation Overview screen from the Home > Site > Construction Planning > Forecast / Reservation Overview.
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Click the hyperlink of forecast job FR-VA-001 forecast run, to open the forecast job in Create Forecast Run screen.
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Click Create RR.
A reservation run with the same settings as defined for the selected forecast run is created.
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Click OK to acknowledge the message.
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Click Forecast / Reservation Overview in the Navigation Bar, to navigate to the Overview screen.
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Click the hyperlink of Reservation job FR-VA-001 in the Forecast / Reservation Code field, to open the Reservation job in Create Reservation Run screen.
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Click Start to launch the reservation run.
The job status changes to RESERVED when the run is successful.
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Click the Reserved Nodes button.
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Select the check box against the BOM node in the BOM Path field.
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Click List Positions button, to open the Reserved Positions screen.
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Scroll to the BOM Quantities column group to check the BOM position quantities.
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Scroll to the Reserved Quantities column group to check the quantities calculated by the Reservation Run.
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Click the Hyperlink of Pos field, to open the Position Attributes screen. The Inventory Items and List Position Properties corresponding to the selected List Position are displayed.
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Click Reserved Positions in the Navigation Bar, to navigate back to the Reserved Positions. Repeat steps 13 to 14 for other BOM Positions.
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Click Reserved Nodes in the Navigation Bar, to navigate to the Reserved Nodes screen. Repeat steps 9 to 16 for the other BOM nodes.
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Click ‘Site’ in the Navigation bar, to navigate to the Site Menu.