What is ATP Check ??

[Former Member]

Hi all.

Can anyone, please explain me what exactly is ATP Check. How is this ATP Check executed ???

For what elements can we execute this check ??

Regards.

Prasad.

[tibor_nagy]

Dear Prasad,

In SCM 'atp' is called Global available-to-promse because companies operating worldwide are forced to globalize available information in order to conduct business efficiently.

Specifically, this means that information has to be made available across system boundaries as quickly as possible to provide optimized decision support.

On the following link you can find in detail what is exactly atp check in SCM (In SCM atp is called Global available-to-promse):

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm50/helpdata/en/26/c2d63b18bc7e7fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm

I hope I could help you.

Regards,

Tibor

[Former Member]

Hi,Hi,

Availability check : A procedure that ensures that there are enough components available for planned or production orders in production planning and production control.

The checking rule specifies the scope of the availability check for the respective transactions in sales and distribution by specifying precisely which stocks, receipt and issue elements should be taken into account during the availability check.

Every checking rule is allocated to a checking group: together these two elements determine the final inspection requirements. In addition, the checking rule includes a specification whether or not an availability check should take into account the replenishment lead time.

When specifying the inspection scope for a certain checking rule, you can currently select the following receipts and issues:

purchase orders

production orders

purchase requisitions

planned orders

dependent requirements

reservations

dependent reservations

sales requirements

delivery requirements

SD requirements (= sales requirements and delivery requirements) reduce an available stock or inward stock movement on the material availability date so that other issues cannot access the reserved quantity.

When specifying the inspection scope for a certain check rule, you can currently select the following stock elements:

Safety stock (to be maintained in material master record, MRP data)

Stock in transfer in the receiving plant

Stock in quality inspection

Blocked stock

Thanks

Sreeni

[Former Member]

Hi Prasad,

ATP is Available to Promise. ATP check is performed to check the availability of a stock or a receipt element either at a particular location or at globally. If it is executed globally, it is GATP ie Global Availabile to Promise.

ie When a sales order is entered in the system, system checks the availability date and time by carrying out an ATP check and provide the feasible date and time to the customer who placed the order.

The ATP check is available in Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) for checking the availability of components in an in-house production order.

For carrying out ATP check, the following needs to be performed.

1. You have made the following settings in Customizing for Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP):

a. You have defined a check mode that links the business event PP with check instructions defined as follows:

§ You have set the Rules-Based ATP indicator.

§ You have selected the option Immediate Rule Evaluation, Without Previous Check in the Start Immediately field.

§ You have set the Use Product Interchangeability Master Data indicator.

§ You have selected the option Remaining Requirement According to Product Interchangeability Master Data, or Do not Create Remaining Requirement in the Remaining Requirement field. In the option Create Remaining Requirement According to Product Interchangeability Master Data, the system always creates the remaining requirement on the original component of the order.

§ In the Validity Mode field, you have defined whether the system also takes account of the stock and receipt elements of a product that lie before the validity start of the product.

If you define that the system can only use the stock and receipt elements of a product whose availability date/time is within the validity period of the product, this has the following consequences: If the product only becomes valid in the future, the system cannot use any product stock that may have existed beforehand.

b. You have defined an ATP group and linked it with the business event PP in the check control. In the check control, you have defined which categories the system takes into consideration in the ATP check. You use stock and, if required, also planned receipts, but no product substitution orders.

2. You have entered the following data on the ATP tab page in the location product master for the products in a supersession chain:

• A check mode as defined above

• An ATP group as defined above

• A display unit of measure

ATP check can be executed for customer based demand elements wherein the processes like Sales and Distribution Processing (SD-SLS), Planned Order Processing (PP-MRP), Production Order Processing (PP-SFC), Purchasing (MM-PUR), Demand Management (PP-MP-DEM), Inventory Management (MM-IM), Batch Management (LO-BM) are being executed.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[former_member204463]

Dear friend,

ATP stands for Available to Promise.

Availability check is an integral part of the business process that determines if the required delivery quantity can be met on a required delivery date. For this purpose the system takes into account pre-delivery activities such as scheduling for picking or packing times and the time taken to produce or obtain the material. It also performs several background functions such as Backorder processing, rescheduling and ATP quantities.

There are three types of availability checks -

Check on basis of ATP quantities.

Check against product allocation.

Check against planning.

For more information go through the below thread & help link:

https://forums.sdn.sap.com/click.jspa?searchID=4330771&messageID=3829038

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/41/191fdb45fd11d188ff0000e8322f96/frameset.htm

Regards,

Keerthi.