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The best way to learn is by doing so, welcome to the video service that unlocks and reveals the hidden value in your system. Martin here, and today we've got a good one, in this video we're going to explore a material availability date, otherwise known as the MAD date. SAP has such a wide variety of dates which all have specific purposes and lead to a flow of information that drives our supply chain. The material availability date is no exception, as is what drives the required on hand date for MRP, traffic light, stock on hand, and exceptions. It's pretty important. We don't want to miss out on what exactly it is. So, Kristie, why don't you tell us exactly why the material availability date is called the MAD date? Because Martin, it's the date that the customers get mad if we don't have material available, and that might be our external customers, or our sister facilities, or even the manufacturing floor. Okay, before I jump into SAP for this demo, did you at least chuckle? That's it, folks. That's as funny as she gets. Yeah, okay. So what will we see in the demo today? We will explore how the MAD date gets determined. And some very important and often overlooked lead time considerations. How it shows up in the stock requirements list and what the impact is on the MRP run and exception monitoring. Off we go! All right, let's go in and see what this MAD date is all about. So, as we previously said, the MAD date is the date that the customer gets MAD if we don't have the product available. It's the date that the product is needed to be on the shelf so that all the other subsequent activities that are required in order to get it out the door to the customer on time based on when we made and are now trying to keep that promise. So, if you go into a sales order, and I'm going to show you an example of what I would call a flat schedule. I'll explain how this is actually working. You may see this a lot on your sales orders and what I want to do is explain what maybe should be happening instead. So let's just go in and we're going to grab the second item and I'm going to go in and I can see that there's a schedule line.
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Procurement & MRP
Optimize supplier collaboration with efficient schedule agreements
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Discover 5 inventory reports with practical use cases
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Exploring key requirements for successful ATP implementation
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Demand & Supply Planning
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Where is available capacity maintained, and what impact does it have on capacity evaluation processes?
Production & Capacity Planning
Quickly gauge potential shortage impacts
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Demand & Supply Planning
Streamlining management of materials from multiple suppliers
How to accurately track and distinguish the origin of materials from various suppliers?
Procurement & MRP
Mastering when and where to block storage bins in mass
How can systematic damage control be effectively implemented during warehouse disasters like fires or floods, especially when manual blocking is used to prevent material allocation to orders in SAP?
Warehouse Management
Utilize capacity evaluation to view and address order backlogs
What approach can be taken to use capacity evaluation transactions for assessing the current backlog of orders?
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Navigate through the most commonly used general settings
What range of settings is available within the standard capacity evaluation transaction codes?
Production & Capacity Planning
Effortlessly view and manage capacity overloads in work centers
How do you effectively identify bottlenecks in a plant's work centers?
Production & Capacity Planning
MAC tutorial around the component checking rule for a created process order
Uncertain if the right ATP rules apply to components for production? Learn how to identify the checking rules used for orders in CRTD (Created) status.
Production & Capacity Planning
Efficiently manage and rectify overdue planned orders
What are the best methods for cleaning, maintaining, and correcting overdue planned orders?
Procurement & MRP
Efficiently manage and rectify overdue production orders
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Procurement & MRP
Efficiently manage and rectify overdue purchase orders
What are the best methods for cleaning, maintaining, and correcting overdue purchase requisitions?
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Efficiently manage and rectify overdue purchase requisitions
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Contract & Supplier Management
Efficiently handle supplier contracts by volume or spend with outline agreements
What is the best approach to managing supplier contracts efficiently?
Contract & Supplier Management
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What is the process for verifying material availability when converting a planned order into a production or process order?
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Procurement & MRP
Aggregate capacity utilization effectively using hierarchies
What are the ways to view and analyze aggregated capacity utilization across multiple work centers, resources, or at the plant level?
Production & Capacity Planning
Master the maintenance and assignment of pooled labor to work centers
What strategies are effective for managing labor as a shared constraint across various work centers or resources?
Production & Capacity Planning
Inbound Deliveries can manage multiple batches and track different shelf-life dates
Inbound deliveries streamline the receiving process, reducing dock work and boosting efficiency. This approach enhances data quality ahead of goods receipt, ensuring smoother operations.
Procurement & MRP
Understanding and rectifying critical deliveries for optimal performance
What are the best approaches to explore critical deliveries and understand how to correlate, integrate, and resolve related issues?
Warehouse Management
Optimal forecast placement when manufacturing and distribution occur at separate locations
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Demand & Supply Planning
Explore patterns in goods receipts, issues, and inventory
Uncover hidden patterns in our supply chain practices to reveal unseen opportunities and improvements.
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Utilize days of coverage analysis reports for effective inventory management
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Demand & Supply Planning
Utilizing various date fields in purchase orders and confirmations
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Optimize procurement: Leveraging purchase requisition dates effectively
How can a thorough understanding of release dates in purchase requisitions significantly optimize the procurement cycle?
Procurement & MRP
Learn to optimize SAP systems using material forecasting for stable-demand goods
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Demand & Supply Planning
Ensure accurate forecasting with data integrity in demand planning
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Inside MRP: A detailed walkthrough of how it functions
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Procurement & MRP
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Evaluate safety stock performance and investment with precision analysis
How to evaluate the effectiveness of safety stock in mitigating supply chain variability and volatility?
Demand & Supply Planning
Maximizing efficiency with dynamic safety stock utilization
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Easy navigation to a simplified WM transaction menu
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Effectively handling group 2 - exception message 06
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Procurement & MRP
Effectively handling group 3 - exception message 07
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Procurement & MRP
Effectively handling group 7 - exception message 10
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Procurement & MRP
Effectively handling group 7 - exception message 15
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Procurement & MRP
Reveal has been educating and empowering organizations to get more out of SAP for over three decades. By optimizing existing SAP investments, our efforts have led to organizations operating world-class supply chains that produce better performance and business outcomes.
Reveal TV is an SAP supply chain video training platform designed for organizations who manage their supply chain with SAP. It has been created to help supply chain focused business users quickly learn more about SAP and its capabilities. All videos are delivered by specialists with real world experience and formatted as bite sized “how to” demonstrations up to 10 minutes long. Reveal TV is also an excellent tool to swiftly and efficiently bring newcomers quickly up to speed.
Reveal TV provides extensive search and exploration features. The responsive search function provides the ability to quickly find answers to specific questions. Taking exploration to the next level the AI powered video recommendation chatbot cuts through the breadth and complexity of SAP and address broader queries. The goal of both features is to reduce search time and increase learning time.
Reveal TV has an extensive library of SAP supply chain training videos and new videos are added every month. Additionally, we encourage members to suggest topics for our experts to consider creating new videos.
Reveal TV has been optimized for viewing on both mobile and desktop devices.
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