Inquire Stock Availability to Kit – A summary of the activity

The “Inquire Stock Availability to Kit” activity enables warehouse clerks to find out the number of kits that could be built in a warehouse on the basis of the available constituent parts.

You can specify those attributes of the constituent parts that the system must pick up for building the kit parts. You can choose stock status, condition and minimum shelf life of those constituent parts that must be included in the kit parts.

The system computes the number of kits that could be built in the following way:

• Ascertains the total required quantity of each of the constituent parts for all kits

• Ascertains the free quantity of each of the constituent parts existing with specific attributes in the warehouse.

• In the event of any shortage of constituent parts in the warehouse, the system checks whether alternates are allowed for the kit as defined in the “Maintain Kit Composition” activity of the Part Administration activity. If alternates are allowed for the kit, the system takes into consideration those quantities of 1) constituent parts with the alternate stock status and/or 2) direct alternate parts that are required to overcome the shortfall.

• Thus, the number of feasible kits will be equal to the number of kits for which all the constituent parts (including alternates, if allowed) are available in the requisite quantities in the warehouse.

For details, click Inquiring feasible quantity of kits in a warehouse

What you can do in this activity

To find the number of kits feasible in a warehouse

1. Specify the required quantity of  the kit part in a specific  warehouse.

2. Specify attributes of the constituent parts that must be used for assembling the kits.

3. Click the “Inquire Stock availability to Kit” pushbutton to allocate constituents to the kit part.

Prerequisites

• Create kit part in Part Main Information

• Maintain Kit Composition in Part Administration