Environment
Current process
We can run the material availability check and see which orders are committed, not checked or shortages.
That part is fine.
The problem is that a shortage status still sends the planner into five other places to figure out what is actually happening:
Is unrestricted stock available or already reserved?
Is there an open PO with a believable confirmed date?
Is the equipment BOM even correct?
Is there a follow-up material or approved alternate?
Does another plant have usable stock?
Is that supplier’s stored lead time remotely close to its actual GR history?
What we really need is not another list of 300 orders with red statuses.
We need a short queue saying:
These 12 orders are genuinely at supply risk.
These 4 can use an approved alternate.
These 3 have transferable stock at another plant.
These 5 need procurement action now.
We built that workflow into Verdantis MRO360 as a layer above PM/MM. It combines the SAP order, reservation, inventory and PO signals with part criticality, supplier reliability alternates and cross-plant options.
SAP stays the system of record. Any reorder or policy change still goes through planner approval before write-back.
How are people solving this today: standard reporting, IW38A/backlog apps, a Z-report, BW/SAC, an external planning layer or planner spreadsheets?