Item Usage

[Former Member]

Dear All,

Wondering what does the belwo usage mean in item category assignment, i have a good idea of what the item usage is, just wondering what these mean.

APO0 sourcing reset,

APO1 sourcing main item,

APO2, sourcing own system,

APO3 sourcing non-sap system

Regards

[Former Member]

anyone can input some light on this?

[Former Member]

Hi

These are used in Rule based Availability check Settings. Normally we have alternative Item category / manual item category. But if we activate rule based availbility check then this alternative item category does not work, so we have to use these usages.

For example, you can carry out an availability check in several plants and with several alternative materials.

This availability check takes place in the stand-alone APO planning system (Advanced Planner and Optimizer) from SAP.

The source system triggers the availability check in the APO system which then returns the result of the check to the source system.

Regards

Srini