PPDS Planned Orders vs. SNP Planned Order in CTM

[Former Member]

Hi All,

Can anyone explain to me how the system decides to create a planned order vs. SNP planned order in CTM. For some reason a small number of materials are generating planned orders (category = AI) instead of SNP Planned Order (EE).

Please note the following:

PPDS Horizon = 0

In the CTM Profile, we have set the ?Order Category? in the ?Basic Settings Tab? to ?SNP Order? and ?Source of Supply for In-House Production? to ?SNP Type?.

Like I said, this is only impacting a couple of materials so perhaps there is some master data setting that I am not aware of?

Thanks,

Pablo

[Former Member]

Yes, we are using one CTM profile and we are also using SNP Order in this profile.

[Former Member]

Hi Paul,

That's all I think about. Try taking two orders that were created with category AI and EE. Just run the CTM run for those material(s) and see if it is again creating order with categories AI. may be you can notice some thing...

[Former Member]

Hi Visu Venkat,

Thank you for your reply. Your response is based on the idea that we are executing PPDS Planning? This is not the case. We are only using SNP CTM. While it is true that we do have PPDS PPMs, these are only being used as a vehicle to convert into SNP PPMs.

[Former Member]

Hi Paul,

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Are all the products planned by one single CTM profie? In setting s tab of your CTM profile, you can choose whether the order created could be SNP(category EE) or PPDS (category AI) order. Can you check that?

[Former Member]

Hi,

If your PPDS horizon is set to zero, then it means your SNP horizon is also zero. This means that both SNP and PPDS can start planning from today.

If you have a requirement, what ever run first SNP or PPDS creates that kind of order.

If SNP run is executed, it creates a SNp planned order type EE and then if PPDS run is executed, then it deletes and recreates the order as PPDS planned order AI. How ever the opposite is not true. If you run a PPDS run and then runa SNP planning run, the system does not delete the PPDS planned order created by the first run and create a SNP order. It just respects the PPDS planned order.

So, in your case, there must be a SNP run first and then a PPDS planning run. The SNP planned order generated in the first run is not being deleted and recreated as PPDS order int he PPDS planning run.

You have the following options:

1. Find out when the SNP planning run and PPDS planning runs are done. You can check the logs of previous PPDS run in /SAPAPO/RRPLOG1 - Display Logs. A little patience in going through all those logs at the PPDS planning job run time fetches you a reason.

You can also go to transaction /sapapo/om19 and check what time these orders are created so that you know which run created it.

2. Identify materials for which the SNP order is retained. You can create a requirement or forecast at the plant and try running the SNP run first and then PPDS and see why the PPDS order was not created.

Common reasons why a PPDS planned order is not created are

1. PPDS PPM is not active ( status 0)

2. The selection you gave in the planning run does not include the material. If you have it by production planner and the product master does not have the planner assigned, it in not included in the run.

Let us know what happened.

[Former Member]

The SNP Production Plan is set to 2W. We have also set the planning procedure to 2. There is both a PPDS and SNP PPM.

Any more suggestions?

Paul

[Former Member]

Please check that SNP Prod horizon is maintained in SNP2 tab. And check the PP Planning Procedure is 2.And the PPM/PDS is A SNP Plan