How to handle consignment stocks at the customer in APO?

[Former Member]

Has anybody experience with consignment stocks at the customer in APO?

e.g.

Did you create a plant or a sublocation for this kind of stock?

Did you assign a new ATP category?

How did you do an ATP check against this consignment stock?

(Note 409298 - Consignment stocks at the customer in APO

is not really considered as a solution.)

Edited by: Marc61 on Sep 27, 2010 9:26 PM

[aparna_ranganathan]

Marc

consignment stock at custom should come thru to APO with category CD. The stock in your plant will have category CC . So i dont see the need to assign a separate category to cons stock @ customer.

Can you please elaborate on your requirement . I believe there is no need to create a separate plant /sublocation for this type of stock. In general the way ATP is calculated is little bit different in R/3 and APO. If you include the consignment stock also in your default stock category group (ST1) in APO and this stock category group is assigned to your location , then the consignement stock will also be considered during ATP calculation. If you have not included consignemt stock as a category in the default category group ST1 (or category group assigned to location) then consignemt stock will not be considered during ATP calculation.

But in R/3 the consignemt stock at customer / stock at subcontractor location will not be considered during ATP calculation. that is the stock at customer (/subcontractor location if you are giving stock to subcontracting vendor) and plant stock are considered as two separate entities in R/3 whereas it is entirely driven by the categories assigned to the category group considered for stock calculation in APO.

Thanks

Saradha

[Former Member]

If you have serveral customers with consignment stock (at the customers)

in one plant (in APO) then it is a problem

that the ATP check in only done against the relevant consignment stock.