The Action Required Report analyzes demand from sales orders, purchases, and work orders against current on-hand inventory. The action required column quickly identifies items that need to be purchased or production planned. Finished good shortages are factored against production yields to estimate additional demand against the primary raw material item as specified in the Bill of Materials. Negative amounts in raw material items indicate purchases must be made to meet the demand generated by today's sales orders. Negative amounts in finished goods indicate purchase orders or work orders must be entered to purchase or produce the inventory from raw material into finished goods.
The production yield used in the finished good shortage calculation is dependent upon the Calculate Demand Using Standard Yields setting in Inventory Options. When operating with standard yields, the yields entered for the item will be used and may be updated in Item, Item Quick Maintenance, or Standards - Adjust Standard Yields. When actual item production yields have been built up by processing work orders, those actual yields can be used to provide more accurate Action Required estimates on the report.
This report is similar to the Planning Report.
1. When you first enter the Action Required Report a Select An Option window will appear. Select whether you want to run the report by department or by buyer.
2. A second Select An Option window will appear: select one, several, or ALL departments/buyers (depending on how the report is being run).
3. Command options will appear allowing you to print or choose from a set of other print options.
Use the Available Actions link for further information.
| Available Actions | Printing |
Security Required : Inventory - Inventory Reports
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