GATP allocation by customer with wildcard

[Former Member]

Hi

I am facing a situation in GATP product allocations . We are using product allocations for ATP check by material, location and customer.

In APO i created characteristics combinations for the material/location/customer. customer has wildcard of "**********". all configuration of allocation is OK.

Now the situation is when i am doing a simulation for ATP check for the customer specified in characteristics combinations in planned area, every thing works fine. yet when customer doesn't exist in pre-defined CVC, i am getting an error with explanation of.

"The system could not determine the following data The characteristic combination of the item"

I am expecting to use "*********" to replace the undefined customer.

Has any body faced similar situation ?

Your help is highly appreciated

Regards

Raymond

[Former Member]

Raymond,

"*" does not represent a wild card characteristic unless you have defined it as such. Most common wild card I have seen used is "#", but many characters are available. You determine which character is the 'wild card' in /SAPAPO/ATPQ_COLLECT, where you generate your CVCs. I usually stay away from 'asterisk', but that is just my preference.

Rgds,

DB49

[Former Member]

Thanks

I found the root cause: the filed KUNNR in ECC has length of 10, yet APO turns it into length of 20.

the I the customer I created has char. length 10 which doesn't match APO length. I changed it to 20. it works now.

Thanks

Raymond

[Former Member]

Hi DB49,

After changing the length of customer to 20. the wildcard works. But the original specific customer doesn't work anymore since it come cross with length 10.

Any idea?

Thanks

Raymond