Raw Materials Availability

Overview

Raw Material Availability planning takes into account the availability of raw materials when making SKUS or groups. A SKU or group will not be made if the ingredients are not available to create them.

A raw material calendar can be created to take into account the arrival of raw materials.

Setup

To incorporate raw material planning, you need to include inputs into production methods. Below shows an example of ingredients being used as inputs to create BEEF LARGE SINGLE in the production methods.

Raw Material Production Method

The Production Chain can also be viewed for each production method in the plan inputs

Raw Materials Production Chain

The Raw Materials Calendar can also be added into the model

Raw Materials Calendar

You then need to use Required Materials constraint as part of the constraint profile used when running the plan. Below is an example of a constraint profile with Required Materials.

Required Materials Constraint Profile

Output

The example above creates a solution, with both finished groups and raw materials.

Below shows the stock inventory heat map for the finished groups. The finished groups can be drilled into to set the stock inventory for the raw materials.

Raw Materials Solution

You can drill into individual periods to see the stock chain to investigate where there are issues are in the chain meeting demand.

Raw Materials Solution Stock Chain