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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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Quick methods to locate materials in the warehouse
How can the process of locating material be streamlined to shift from dependence on long-term associates' knowledge to empowering any user with Warehouse Management access?
Warehouse Management
Overview of key transactions for staging materials from warehouse to production areas
Staging materials efficiently is crucial to prevent warehouse bottlenecks and ensure timely production. Identifying the right tools is key to integrating warehouse and production processes.
Warehouse Management
Quickly identify non-moving, dust-collecting materials in inventory
How can you systematically identify dusty materials in a warehouse within two minutes, thereby addressing space occupation and signaling underlying issues, to optimize space utilization?
Warehouse Management
Apply theory of constraints to manage bottleneck resources effectively
Is it necessary to dispatch all operations in a multi-operation order involving a bottlenecked resource?
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Pull vs push supply chain best practices
What strategies enable market demand to effectively pull materials/products through a supply chain?
Demand & Supply Planning
Master the art of moving materials in bulk
How can materials be moved efficiently in bulk for time-saving benefits, and what are the step-by-step guidelines for using LT10, including navigating various usage scenarios for optimal results?
Warehouse Management
Discover Navigation Profiles and the efficiency they offer
Efficient information flow in SAP's planning and procurement processes is essential and Navigation Profiles offer a streamlined approach, aligning roles with process flows for optimized operations.
Procurement & MRP
Managing supply shortages: Strategies for identification and resolution
What are the most efficient methods for rapidly identifying supply shortages?
Demand & Supply Planning
Address stock shortages with effective correlation and rectification
How can you delve into the intricacies of negative stock, including understanding its occurrence, correlating factors, integrating research methods, and executing corrective strategies?
Warehouse Management
Explore SAP’s delivery due list for effective logistics execution
Enhancing process efficiency hinges on seamless flow, particularly during crucial handoffs to logistics execution.
Warehouse Management
Clarifying open posting changes and how they are resolved
What is an overview of an open posting change, including its correlation, integration, and methods for resolution?
Warehouse Management
Assess operation and work center performance for optimal output
What are the effective ways to evaluate the performance of order operations?
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Evaluating confirmation options and their selection criteria
Collaborate with customers to discern if time or quantity takes precedence, moving from assumptions to a rules-based, interactive approach.
Order Fulfillment & ATP
Enhance order efficiency: Assessing order performance
What strategies are effective in evaluating the performance of orders as they flow through a plant?
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Setting suppliers up for success with timely and relevant information
Reducing lead times and boosting flexibility require smart supplier collaboration. Explore how to share precise projections for optimal timing and impact.
Procurement & MRP
Learn the how and why of rolling up to period totals
Periodic totals provide crucial insights for assessing inventory position, ATP quantity, and sales estimates.
Demand & Supply Planning
Review of picking areas, use cases, and master data locations
Supply chains require effective grouping and prioritizing of materials, extending to warehouse management. Utilizing picking areas for efficient sorting of like items or material types is essential.
Warehouse Management
Check availability at the planned order stage for smooth operations
What methods can be used to proactively ensure the availability of required materials before converting an order?
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Mastering planning strategies: An essential overview
What parameters are crucial for aligning demand effectively with various manufacturing strategies?
Demand & Supply Planning
Leverage the graphical planning board for infinite capacity planning
What is the process for planning with infinite capacity within the graphical planning board?
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Enhance planning with effective use of planning materials
How can we minimize total replenishment lead time to meet customer tolerance without fully adopting a make-to-stock approach?
Demand & Supply Planning
Explore how plant-specific material status interacts with various PLM statuses
Customizing plant-specific material statuses is crucial for operational impact and meeting organizational needs.
Demand & Supply Planning
Using history to illuminate predictability vs. unpredictability
Unpacking the history of materials reveals critical insights into their predictability or unpredictability, enhancing decision-making.
Demand & Supply Planning
Expert strategies for evaluating good deals and managing risks
What strategies best manage and maintain price breaks? Are there flexible options for price scales, and is the best price quantity always the ideal minimum order?
Procurement & MRP
Easily locate and manage overdue purchase orders
What are the indicators that a purchase order is overdue?
Procurement & MRP
Transition sourcing for superior buying and inventory tactics
What challenges do companies face when transitioning supply sources or integrating new suppliers into existing quota arrangements, and how can they ensure smooth operational continuity?
Procurement & MRP
Ensure material availability when releasing production/process orders
What steps can be taken to guarantee the availability of all necessary materials when releasing an order to the shop floor?
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Master the art of utilizing reorder points effectively
What is the best approach to establish a reorder point with a supplier?
Procurement & MRP
Learn how Safety Stock and Reorder Point planning work together effectively
Starting with Reorder Point Planning can feel daunting. Discover how Safety Stock serves as an early warning system when demand exceeds expectations.
Procurement & MRP
Discover essential tools and tips to keep your forecast organized and precise
How should we handle unsold leftover forecast? Should we drop it or retain it for future sales? Explore the best strategies to make informed decisions and optimize inventory management.
Demand & Supply Planning
Simplify proposal and quote procurement with RFP and RFQ management
How to obtain proposals and quotes from a variety of suppliers?
Contract & Supplier Management
Guide to analyzing and understanding results
Improve how available materials are matched to open customer orders for more efficient fulfillment.
Order Fulfillment & ATP
Replicating service/Inventory strategies in SAP explained
Are you struggling to master the challenge of optimizing limited inventory availability. You're not alone!
Order Fulfillment & ATP
A step-by-step guide about how to return stock from a picked delivery
Mastering stock returns from picked deliveries is key to a flexible supply chain, helping to avoid costly reverse logistics expenses.
Warehouse Management
Optimize limited material availability: prioritize orders that deliver the best results
Production planners juggle efficiency, inventory, and service. Today, learn how to prioritize limited materials for smarter, more impactful production decisions.
Scheduling & Shop Floor
Mastering the essentials of safety stock management
What is the mechanism behind safety stock and how does it function effectively?
Procurement & MRP
Determine optimal safety stock levels
How do you determine the optimal level of safety stock for your business needs?
Procurement & MRP
Effective management of contractual price breaks with suppliers
How are price breaks structured with suppliers in relation to order volume?
Procurement & MRP
Utilize firm and trade-off zones for optimal supplier coordination
How do strategic sourcing tools improve efficiency in communicating requirements to partnered suppliers and affiliated facilities?
Procurement & MRP
Discover how SAP optimizes your ABC indicator evaluation and setup
The ABC indicator crucially guides decision-making cadence and priority, yet it often faces challenges with consistency and currency.
SAP Optimization
Identifying and organizing materials nearing expiration
How can the occurrence of shipping expired materials be prevented, and how can SAP's standard shelf life control list report be utilized to assist in maintaining SLEDs (Shelf Life Expiration Dates)?
Warehouse Management
Explore MD06 vs. MD07, the similarities, differences, and the ideal choice
Clients often question the choice between the stock requirements list and the MRP list in SAP. Despite similarities, understanding their effectiveness is crucial.
Procurement & MRP
Discover the exception monitor’s insights and does green signify optimal performance
Best ways of assessing inventory adequacy and identifying excess stock, prompting the need for a strategic resolution plan.
Demand & Supply Planning
Enhance spending insights with advanced purchase value analysis
How to accurately track expenditure with suppliers over a given time frame?
Contract & Supplier Management
Learn the right Procurement Key for producing, procuring, or transferring items
Diversifying sourcing options can be challenging. Explore key strategies for flexibility in making, buying, or transferring, and review different paths to optimize your supply chain decisions.
Demand & Supply Planning
Showcasing crate part staging for production and master data locations
Proper Kanban setup is crucial for effective material staging in bulk or crates, ensuring seamless transitions to production with specific transactions.
Warehouse Management
Exploring release order parts for production staging and master data locations
Release order parts offer flexibility by moving materials as needed, but incorrect setup risks excess inventory, consuming valuable space in production areas.
Warehouse Management
Understanding the essentials of ATP checks
Ensure readiness by meeting essential pre-qualifiers to make and keep promises, even in basic scenarios.
Order Fulfillment & ATP
Unpacking pre-requisites for scheduled promises
Overcome organizational challenges in confidently promising schedule adherence for replenishment. Are you ready?
Order Fulfillment & ATP
Communication is key as confirmations ensure we stay aligned with our suppliers
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Contract & Supplier Management
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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.
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