Characteristic Based Planning with mySAP SCM™ (eBook)

Contents 7
1 Motivation for Planning with Characteristics 10
2 Characteristic Based Planning Overview 12
2.1 Process Overview 12
2.2 Scenarios for Characteristic Based Planning 14
2.3 System Configuration Determinants 19
2.4 Functions for Characteristic Based Planning in APO 22
2.5 Process Variants and their Usage in the Scenarios 24
3 Characteristics and Classes 28
3.1 Characteristics and Classes in R/3 28
3.2 Transfer of Characteristics and Classes to APOThe transfer of classes and characteristics to APO is done via the CIF, 31
4 Configuration Scheme in APO 34
5 Make-to-Order with Variant Configuration 36
5.1 Scenario Description 36
5.1.1 Process Chain 36
5.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 38
5.1.3 Configurable Material 39
5.1.4 Configuration Profile 39
5.2 Variant Configuration in the Sales Order 40
5.3 Object Dependencies 43
5.3.1 Structure and Usage of Object Dependencies 43
5.3.2 Selection Conditions 47
5.3.3 Procedures 47
5.3.4 Procedures with Reference Characteristics 48
5.3.5 Variant Functions 51
5.4 Multi-Level Configuration 53
5.5 Configuration via Material Class 55
5.6 Material Variants 56
5.7 Configurable Material Variants 59
5.8 Variant Tables 61
6 Make-to-Order with VC and Demand Planning 63
6.1 Make-to-Order with VC and Planning Overview 63
6.2 Characteristic Based Forecasting 64
6.3 Forecast Release and Forecast Consumption 68
6.4 Scenario Description for Planning in Inactive Version 73
6.4.1 Process Chain for Planning in Inactive Version 73
6.4.2 System Configuration Determinants 78
6.4.3 Transformation of the Dependent Demand 79
6.4.4 Forecast Consumption by the Dependent Demand 80
6.4.5 Component Logic 82
6.5 Scenario Description for Planning in Active Version 83
6.5.1 Process Chain for Planning in Active Version 83
6.5.2 System Configuration Determinants 87
6.5.3 Forecast Check on Characteristic Level 87
6.5.4 Allocation Check on Characteristic Level 88
6.5.5 Forecast Consumption on Characteristic Level 89
7 Sales from Stock with Characteristics 90
7.1 Scenario Description 90
7.1.1 Process Chain 90
7.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 92
7.2 Batch Selection in the Sales Order 93
7.3 ATP with Characteristics 96
7.3.1 Characteristic View 96
7.3.2 Rules-Based ATP with Characteristic Substitution 97
7.4 Delivery with Characteristics 100
8 Configure-to-Order with Propagation 102
8.1 Scenario Description 102
8.1.1 Process Chain 102
8.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 104
8.2 Characteristic Propagation within the PPM 106
8.3 Block Planning 109
8.3.1 Motivation for Block Planning 109
8.3.2 Block Definition in the Resource 110
8.3.3 Activity Valuation 113
8.3.3 Block Planning Functions 116
8.3.4 Assembly Planning Based on Block Definitions 116
8.4 Goods Receipt with Batch Characteristics 118
9 Planning with Shelf Life 120
9.1 Scenario Description 120
9.1.1 Process Chain 120
9.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 121
9.1.3 Shelf Life Settings in the Material Master 122
9.2 Shelf Life Functionality 123
9.3 Characteristics for Shelf Life 125
9.4 Customer Specific Shelf Life Requirements 127
9.5 Production Planning and Scheduling with Shelf Life 131
9.6 Goods Receipt with Shelf Life Characteristics 132
9.7 Shelf Life Alerts 133
10 Sales Order Oriented Planning 135
10.1 Scenario Description 135
10.1.1 Process Chain 135
10.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 137
10.2 Descriptive Characteristics 137
10.3 Forecast Adjustment 139
10.4 Planned Order Conversion with Conversion Rules 141
11 Production Planning and Scheduling 143
11.1 Production Planning with Characteristics 143
11.1.1 Production Planning with the VC-Configuration 143
11.1.2 Production Planning with the CDP-Configuration 144
11.2 Detailed Scheduling with Characteristics 146
11.2.1 Impact of Characteristics on Detailed Scheduling 146
11.2.2 Characteristics as Sorting Criteria for Heuristics 147
11.2.3 Characteristics for Set-Up Group Determination 150
11.3 Planned Order Integration 151
11.4 Display of Characteristics in the Product View 153
References 155
Abbreviations 157
Implementation Samples 158
Transactions 162
Index 164