It would be fair to assume that it processed and adjusted “stuff” without error–I struggle with the word “correctly” not because I doubt the process or the coding or the logic, but, this isn’t my area so I don’t personally know what “correctly” looks like.
Here is what I would do in your position based on your comment about being hesitant about opening a Support case:
- Run this process in Report mode in production.
- Take the topmost item from the 1st, 17th, and 64th pages (nothing special about those pages, just, three random spots)
- Open a Support case, provide the output of the entire report, in the body of the case provide the three example items you found above, and ask the following five questions about these three items:
- Describe what is the report telling me about these three items?
- What could have caused these three items to be out of sync and what can we do to avoid items not being in sync?
- What is the best practice when running the “Refresh part quantities and allocations”–as in, how frequently would it be recommended for most customers to run this in report mode?
- Is it generally considered safe to run “Refresh part quantities and allocations” in Report and Update mode without reviewing every item before updating? If not, why?
- How can I submit the Report only option of “Refresh part quantities and allocations” to run on a scheduled basis without manually running it each time?
<--NOTE: this is a passion project for me personally, so, anything our customers can do to express interest in this would be helpful towards this goal.
Those are five-ish very specific questions that all require something beyond a yes/no response–none of which I know, but, someone who works in this area would definitely be able to answer.
Based on the answer to questions 1 and 4, you may want to check other items in the report or just run this in report and update mode blindly if it is really safe to do. I don’t think that running in update mode blindly is something that my counterparts on the application side would recommend though (but, I defer to them) because if it was 100% safe to do for 100% of customers 100% of the time, we’d only have a “report and update” option and not include a separate “report only” option.
Hope that helps.