Patent ID: 8468068

Claim:
A computer program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, generate on a display device a graphical user interface for specifying a process by which an availability determination regarding a ware is to be made, the graphical user interface comprising: a configuration screen comprising a critical part area configured for a user to (i) specify that a particular part used in making a ware and identified in the critical part area is to be recognized as a critical part in a defined ware availability determination process by which an availability of the ware is to be determined, and (ii) associate at least one of a plurality of predefined supply scopes with the specified critical part, wherein each of the plurality of predefined supply scopes defines a different scope of an overall supply chain process through which the part becomes or is available for use in making the ware, and wherein the association of the at least one of the plurality of predefined supply scopes with the specified critical part defines the at least one associated supply scope to be used in a defined critical part availability determination process by which an availability of the specified critical part is to be determined; wherein the defined ware availability determination process is configured to take into account an availability determination for the specified critical part that is made using the defined critical part availability determination process.