ATP stands for 'Available to Promise'. ATP is the quantity of current
on-hand stock, outstanding receipts and planned production that has not already
been committed, either through reservations or by placing demand.
The ATP and ATP components flags determine the complexity of ATP inquiry.
The ATP flag indicates what kind of ATP check to performed to a particular item.
There are 4 levels namely:
1. None
2. Material Only
3. Material and Transportation resources
4. Transportation resources only.
The value of ATP components flag indicates what kind of ATP check user want to
perform at the component level. Possible choices are:
1. Material Only
2. Resources Only
3. Material and Resources
4. None
While scheduling a line which has the item whose ATP_CHECK flag = Y, the
system will:
1. Find a ship from location (using Sourcing Rules) for the item if the ship
from location is not already defaulted on the line.
2. Check the availability of the item from that warehouse. If available,
return that warehouse. If not, find another warehous using the Sourcing
Rules. Continue this until you find a warehouse or till no more sourcing
rules exists
3. If the item is not available on the request date, or within the acceptable
range, the system will error out and display a messsage to indicate that the
date could not be met.
While scheduling a line which has the item whose ATP_CHECK flag = N, the
system will:
1. Find a ship from location if the ship from location is not already defaulted
on the line.
2. Copy the request date into the field of schedule_date without any ATP CHECK.
For ATP = N items, the item is always considered to be available. The user will
get back a message ATP not applicable and the Available date will be the Request
Date and the Available Quantity will be the ordered quantity.