Availability Overview 
Use
The availability overview enables you to see the ATP situation for a particular material in a defined plant. The availability check is run using a selected checking rule.
You cannot change the displayed data.
Integration
You can call up the availability overview using the transaction CO09 or from the relevant application component. Starting from the MRP menu you find the availability overview by choosing Environment → Availability overview.
Prerequisites
You have maintained the checking group in the material master and the application-specific checking rule in Customizing.
Features
Starting the Function
If MRP areas are active, you can enter an MRP area and thereby restrict the availability check to this MRP area.
By entering a sales order item, a WBS element or a customer, you can display the availability overview on the level of sales order stock, project stock, customer consignment or returnable packaging stock.
If you have set the With requirements quantities indicator in the initial screen, the check does not take into account the confirmed quantities, but it does take into account the requirements quantities. This enables you to simulate the creation mode whilst checking requirements, which have ATP groups with the cumulation type 2 or 3.
Availability Overview Screen
The Availability Overview screen is divided into three sections:
- In the upper section, the system displays information about the check.
- In the middle section, there is an aggregated display of product availability on a plant level. By using this, you can determine quickly whether there is a material shortage.
- In the lower section, the system displays the daily availability situation of the selected material in a plant according to the scope of check. For each date and MRP element, the system displays a totals requirement with a receipt quantity (for stocks and receipts) or a requirement quantity, a committed quantity (only for requirements) and a cumulated ATP quantity. The system uses negative indicators to display the requirements. The data is sorted chronologically and starts with the plant section (if no special stocks are displayed). If necessary, the storage location section, batch section and batch storage location section follow.