Single level bill of material available to promise

A computer implemented method for determining product availability, the computer perfroming steps comprising:

• retrieving demand information from one or more demand sources;
• coordinating product requests responsive to said received demand information according to customer request rules and priorities, said rules and priorities including assignment of customers to a plurality of forecast groups;
• receiving manufacturing and planning data from a planning source and manipulating said received manufacturing and planning data to a single level bill of material to create new supply data responsive to said coordinated requests, supply being allocated by forecast group;
• providing material supply information responsive to said new supply data, said received demand information and according to product supply rules and priorities, satisfaction of said product requests of a customer being restricted to supply allocated to the customer's forecast group;
• and optimizing product availability information to produce Profit ATP schedules for a plurality of forecast groups responsive to the material supply information and product supply rules and priorities,
• wherein the receiving step creates said new supply data from a last regenerative run of said material resource engine.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied in said medium for determining product availability, said computer program product having:
• first computer program code for retrieving demand information from one or more demand sources;
• second computer program code for coordinating product requests responsive to said received demand information according to customer request rules and priorities, said rules and priorities including assignment of customers to a plurality of forecast groups;
• third computer program code for receiving manufacturing and planning data from a planning source and manipulating said received manufacturing and planning data to a single level bill of material to create new supply data responsive to said coordinated requests, supply being allocated by forecast group;
• fourth computer program code for providing material supply information responsive to said new supply data, said received demand information and according to product supply rules and priorities, satisfaction of said product requests of a customer being restricted to supply allocated to the customer's forecast group;
• and fifth computer program code for optimizing product availability information to produce Profit ATP (Available To Promise) schedules for a plurality of forecast groups responsive to the material supply information and product supply rules and priorities,
• wherein said third computer code creates said new supply data from a last regenerative run of said fourth computer code.