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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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Detect and manage stranded stock in customer sales orders
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Explore the essentials of vendor consignment receiving
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Deciding when to apply gross vs. net requirements planning
How to decide between gross and net requirements planning for a more effective and informed strategy?
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Master the segregation and identification of hazardous materials in a warehouse
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Unveil the Stock Requirements list's potential to streamline tasks for planners & buyers
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Exploring one of the true Goldilocks moments in Supply Chain Management, too often, not often enough or just right
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Discover how variants enhance consistency, efficiency, and usability
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Discover custom layouts with ALV grid display
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Master layout tips for standard reports and infostructures
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Discover JIT Releases: Learn how to communicate urgent needs directly to suppliers
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Factory Calendar Explained: Explore usage and activity options for optimized scheduling
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Material analysis: Mastering historical graphing and in-depth analysis
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Discover the pros and cons of outpacing the schedule
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Explore the functionality of safety time and its versatile applications
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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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