Inventory

The AI Scheduler has functionality to manage Material Inventory based on the Scheduled production orders.

All Consumed and Produced Materials are tracked in detail against various transactions such as:

• Replenishment Orders - where MRP or ERP derived inbound inventory is modelled in the system to ensure the Schedule accounts for inventory builds. Replenishment Orders include a Material Code, a Quantity and an Arrival Date when the Material will be on site and available for consumption against Scheduled activities.

• Consumption Events - where Orders that are scheduled consuming that particular material "draw down" on the Inventory.

• Inventory Snapshots - where a state is entered for an inventory position at a certain time. This is useful for stock taking and reconciliation purposes or to calibrate the inventory in the Scheduler with actuals in the Warehouse.

Inventory for each Material Type is visible in the Inventory Draw Down Graph which shows a forward projection of the material impact of inbound and consumed inventory:

The graph above shows material inventory impacts by date. Min and max threshold positions are visible also. These min/max levels are used to indicate either a low inventory position, or an excess inventory position for each material. These are set in the Material Configuration section of the system.

Materials can be filtered using materials statuses:

As shown above, materials may have different avator colours, based on how material levels are compared to their configured thresholds.