CTP vs ATO

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have two questions.

1. Does CTP in PPDS and assemble to order (planning strategy 81 and 82 in ECC 6.0) serve the same purpose ? It looks like both are used to confirm sales order depending upon resource and component availaibilty. Ofocurse CTP would be with much more functionality.

2. In APO we just have 4 planning strategies wheras in ECC6.0 we have over a dozen planning strategies across MTS, MTO, planning components. How does for eg 50,60,52,63, 70,74 planning strategies map to the 4 strategies which we have in APO ?

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

GS,

82 and CTP are very similar. The best that ERP will do, though, is to only warn you when you have exceeded capacity, and give you the immediate opportunity to reschedule the production order to a viable time. CTP will finitely reschedule the planned order immediately according to the Strategy Profile you have created and assigned to CTP, usually using a 'Search for Bucket' or "insert operation' scheduling mode, and then confirm the requirement automatically. 82 also implies the planning segment is order-based, which means that the resulting production order can only be used for one sales order/item. CTP supports anonymous production orders if desired.

In SCM, the "Proposed Strategy" is not the same as "MRP Strategy" in ERP, and they do not map 1-to-1.

SCM standard proposed strategies only deal with consumption of forecast. There are four consumption functionalities, just like ERP:

Unplanned (no forecast or consumption)

Planned with final assembly

Planned without final assembly

Planned according to "planning material'.

ERP has these same consumption functionalities, but further subdivides them, according to, say, whether or not they use MTS or MTO or Project segments, whether Characteristics based planning is also used, etc etc. These functionalities can be configured and executed in SCM, they just are not considered as discreet strategies on their own. Rest assured, though, that all planning functionality available in standard ERP MRP strategies can also be duplicated in SCM.

Regards,

DB49

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

ok. so if I have say an assembly with planning strategy 52 on the ECC side and if I CIF it to APO then what planning stratey would show up on the APO side in the location product master ?

Thanks

GS

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

GS,

Probably no strategy at all would appear in SCM. You should try it yourself.

Rgds,

DB49