Reserve Material

Explanation

This activity is used to reserve the required quantity of a part from the respective project inventory. Project inventory belonging to other projects will not be available.

The reservation can be done either manually or automatically. Manual reservation provides the option of reserving material partially whilst automatic reservation will reserve the full quantity at once. Reserved materials are being tracked in Inventory Part, in stock reservation. It is also possible to unreserve the reserved parts with a negative quantity (i.e. -1 ). Reservation makes it easy to carry out the issuing process.

Prerequisites

• The required quantity must be greater than already reserved quantity. 
• The activity must be in the Released status.

System Effects

• The quantity is reserved, or unreserved if a negative quantity is defined.
• The value in the Reserved Quantity field is updated on the ERMPL demand line.
• The Show Reservation right mouse button option is enabled to view the reserved material.

Window

Project Navigator/Demand/ERMPL

Activity/Demand/ERMPL

Project/Demand/ERMPL
ERMPL

Related Window Descriptions

Project Navigator/Demand/ERMPL

Activity/Demand/ERMPL

Project/Demand/ERMPL 

ERMPL 

Procedure

1. Open the Project Navigator or the Project window, and search for the respective project. Alternatively on the Activity window, search for the required activity. Click on the Demand/ERMPL tab. Alternatively, simply open the ERMPL window.
2. Select the part to reserve, right-click and click Reserve or Reserve manually. If reserving manually, the Manual Reservation dialog box will open. In the dialog box, enter the quantity to reserve from the preferred inventory location then click OK. Click Reserve manually and enter a negative quantity in the dialog box in order to un-reserve already reserved items. Click OK.
3. Once reserved or unreserved, right click on the part, and click Show Reservation to observe the reserved details.