The Material Details Level gives you the most visibility and control over material requirements for a job and material handling.  For the job and/or each operation in the job material requirements can be identified.  Material constraints can be applied to the schedule.  For details, please see Scheduling Material Constraints.

In order to use this level of detail, either:

1. The DMS Inventory table must be populated with the inventory items numbers you are going to use for material requirements.  Inventory information can be added to the DMS Inventory table through the Tables menu and select Inventories, or you can import inventory information using Import Inventory. 
2. In Material Options select the "Do NOT use DMS Inventory table; use free format".  You do not need to import inventory information into the DMS Inventory table.  In most cases, the option to NOT use the DMS inventory table will be selected and a free format entry of material items will be used to track material in DMS.   

To use material details, the correct settings from Material Options and Material Grid Selections must be made. 

Material details have similar options to both the Job and Operation material levels except that a “days to delay” does not exist.  The Material Details Level uses the Expected Delivery dates of material items for an operation as the date to delay the operation as required.  You an also have up to five user fields for text entry and up to 5 user fields for numeric entry.  The user field are set in the Material Options.

The key fields looked at by the scheduler are when scheduling material details are:

1. Material Available. 
2. Expected Delivery.  This prompt is the date the material is expected to be available.
3. Date Received.  This prompt is the date the material was received for the material item.

The prompts for the Material Detail Level can then be selected for the Manufacturing Orders material grid using the Material Grid Columns. The example below shows the Manufacturing Orders material grid with a typical selection of material columns to display:

You can print the material information that is currently in the grid by clicking on the Print Grid button.  When you click on this button, a Print message box will appear enabling you to print the grid information. 

The following is an explanation of each of the Material Details prompts: 

 

1. Material Planner
2. Operation Ident
3. Resource displays the name of the resource if an operation ident was entered.
4. Item No
5. Per Piece
6. Material Qty Available 
7. Material Qty Required
8. Total Required
9. Material Available
10. Material Order Date
11. Expected Date
12. Received Date
13. Floor Stock
14. Can Use Alt Inventory
15. Inv Alt Item No
16. Job Alt Item No
17. Material Scrap
18. Material Firm Date
19. Inv Abbrev
20. Material Lead Time
21. Material Scrap
22. Notes Optional text notes for the material item.
23. Material PO Number

If Material user fields have been setup in Material Options the material user fields can also be displayed in the Material Details Grid.

Note that all the material requirements for a job can be deleted by selected the command File | Delete All Job Material Requirements.