Demand, real and remembered

A reservation is a promise to consume, and promises outlive the orders that made them. After the sweep, May closes with 86 honest lines claiming 940 units, and a true shortage of 74 the open order book already covers.

RuleSweep reservations against their orders nightly, close the orphans, and read shortages from cleaned demand, because planning runs on whatever demand claims to exist.

Nevertrust open reservations as demand. Orders close and their reservations linger, and purchasing buys for ghosts politely ever after.

A reservation is a promise to consume. Unswept, the promises outlive the orders that made them.

◆ Open demand, 31 Mayswept, then trusted.

Demand after the sweep	Lines	Units
M-1120, production this week	38	420
M-3315, production next week	29	310
M-8807, maintenance window	19	210
Open reservations	86	940

Short against stock and orders	Units
M-1120	22
M-3315	34
M-8807	18
True shortage, covered by open orders	74

Shortage means demand beyond the on-hand and the open book together, computed from swept reservations only. The sweep is the whole trick; the arithmetic after it is ordinary. Sample values are illustrative, never client data.

◆ Demand nobody remembers creatingthe orphan reservations.

Reservations belong to orders, and closing an order does not always close its reservations. The leftovers keep claiming stock, planning keeps believing them, and practitioners report warehouses buying for orders finished last quarter. The nightly sweep closes what its order already closed.

◆ The list that keeps no diarywhy you cannot prove the why.

The delivered stock-requirements view shows the live situation and keeps no history, so nobody can later prove which demand drove an order. Landed nightly, the demand picture gets a date, and every purchase can point at the shortage that justified it.

Use case

Problem

Stale reservations inflate demand, purchasing buys for closed orders, and no one can reconstruct why last month’s orders were placed.

What we build

Reservations swept against order status nightly, shortages computed from cleaned demand net of stock and open orders, every night’s picture kept.

What you get

Planning on demand that is real: orphans closed on schedule, shortages that justify their purchases, and a demand history that answers audits.

How much of your open demand belongs to closed orders?

We run the sweep once and show you.

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Terms on this page

SAP: The vendor. Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing.
HANA: SAP’s in-memory database, the platform S/4 runs on.
MM: Materials Management, the purchasing and inventory module.
reservation: A planned consumption line claiming stock for an order.
orphan reservation: Its order closed; the claim lingers as ghost demand.
MD04: The delivered live requirements view; no history kept.
true shortage: Demand beyond on-hand plus the open order book.