Planning in APO with configurable products

[Former Member]

Dear Gurus

we would like to use APO DP in order to plan the demand of configurable products managing the demand figures only for a combination of the two main products characteristics (model/version) without having in DP all the complexity of the order configuration.

Moreover we would like to allocate this forecast to the plants and make a rough capacity planning. The levelled forecast (MPS) should then be used to explode the dependent demand of the critical components at SKU level.

In order to manage this process I was thinking to introduce u201Cdummy codesu201D that represent the charatteristics combination and u201Cdummy BOMu201D for the explosionu2026. This in order to be albe to use SNP to perform the capacity planning and BOM explosion.

Other scenario could be to make the capacity planning and BOM explosion only in DP (with planning BOM) but Iu2019m not sure of the feasibilityu2026

Could you advise on which could be a possible approach and if you had such similar issue to face? Thanks in advance

Regards

Ayan Bishnu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Here you may think of using planning product concept. Inshort you may plan on the basis of one of your critical subassembly

and this subassembly wud be consumed for most of the order demands.

Please check if it is suitable for you and revert

Thanks,

Mangesh A. Kulkarni