Summary
This article walks through the different screens and dialogs in the Projected Excess screen. The Projected Excess Screen shows you information about items that you are projected to have excess of, and is the home for the Projected Excess Alert.
Column Description
The upper portion of this screen is dedicated to details about your projected excess. In addition to the usual columns for item, site, description, categories, notes, etc., you have the following columns.
Additionally, you can right-click on any row to get a helpful context menu.
- Alert Icons - This screen is associated with the projected stock out alert, so you can activate/suspend/ignore alerts here in this grid.
- On Order Quantity - What is on order of this product
- Highest Projected Qty - How above excess does this item get according to projections?
- Highest Excess $ - Value, in the item's stocking currency, of that projected excess position. Helps you prioritize the largest dollar impacts first.
- Next Scheduled Ship Date - when an order is next scheduled to ship from the supplier
- Next Scheduled Dock Date - when an order is next scheduled to arrive at your shipping dock
- Next Supply Order # - what is the next order scheduled to arrive?
- Next PO Remaining Qty - and what quantity is on it?
Detail Tabs
In the lower half of the screen are several detail tabs to help you determine your course of action.
- Order Schedule - The order schedule for the primary supplier of this item
- Sawtooth - Graphical representation of the sawtooth chart for this item's projected schedule
- Open Supply Orders - A list of open supplies for this product that may help with solving the stock-out when they arrive - this would be a list of potential expedites.
- De-Expedite Recommendations - StockIQ will provide a list of Supply Order De-Expedite Recommendations where possible, for all supply orders not already shipped, in order to help solve the excess situation.
- Alerts - A grid showing other alerts for this item, such as late PO's, open customer demands, over-forecast errors, and so on.