Block plannng for non-configurable products

[Former Member]

Hi ALL,

I wish to create blocks on a production rsource as follows,

class- chemistry

characteristics- chem1, chem2, chem3,chem4

when PPDS plans for products with chemistry chem1, the planned orders should be created in the block chem1 and so on, so that similar chemistry products are planned together in the time axis

I wish to know if this type of planning is possible. I welcome everones inputs.

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Vardev,

Yes the block planning is respected with standard lots heuristic. Make sure that the strategy profile has 'Consider' Block planning.

Class 018 does not get CIFed, but the characteristics in the class do. So do it, even if you see failure of class, you will get the characteristics coming in APO. Then taking the same chars, create the class type 400.

Kedar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Fantastic. Thanks for the great help..

[Former Member]

Bart,

In PDS, you do not need to activate the char prop manually.

Kedar

[Former Member]

Hi Kedar,

I have a question regarding classification. Do we assign class to the operation or to the recipe header? To operation I can assign only type 019, and no 018 is possible. While for recipe header 018 is possible.

Pl clarify

Thanks

[Former Member]

If you want the orders to be created in the correct blocks, you need to activate the characteristic propagation in the PPM. Assign the class and the correct charact. to the PPM and the orders will be created in the correct block, even if you run a normal lotsize heuristic.

Best regards,

Bart

[Former Member]

Vardev,

You need to do the following -

1. Classify the routing with class type 018. CIF the chars to APO, though the class is non transferable

2. Activate the block planning by activating the BADI CUSLNTRTO_ADDIN in ECC

3. Create the class type 400 in APO and assign it to resource in model independent version. Make sure your class 400 and 018 have the same chars

4. Create the blocks on the classified resource in version 000

5. Do the initial transfer of PDS

With this you can start the block planning.

Kedar

[Former Member]

Hi Kedar, thanks for the help.

I wish to know, will the 018 type be actually cifed to APO? can i see them in APO after activating the BADI? If yes why do we need to create 400 type? Also will PP lot size heuristics work for block planning?

thanks for all yur help

[Former Member]

Hi Vardev,

The planning in PPDS happens as per the demand qty and date.

The demand checks the product characteristics and starts

assign in the capacity blocks that you have defined in the block

basis definition and assign for the material class.

Say for eg, for a daily bucket of 100, let us say there is demand of

25 in chem1, chem2, chem3 and chem4 for the material class

chemistry, each 25 will get occupied in their blocks at a

stretch.

Say another eg, for a daily bucket of 100, if there is demand for

10 for chem1, 15 for chem2, 0 for chem3, 15 for chem4, then

each block will get assigned with the capacity demand accordingly

and since there is no demand for chem3 characterisitcs, chem4

will get pushed to the previous buckets

Hope it is clear now. Please confirm

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Hi Senthil,

Thanks for the reply and I believe this is same as my requirement, except that I am looking for a 55 week block. I will be interested to know how we can set up this, using what type of class? how the heuristics recognize product characteristic with block definition characteristic? can I use the std PP lot sizing heuristics?

Thanks in advance