Hi Sandeep.
Do you have a specific doubt or is the topic about how to set up the scenario?
To setup the scenario:
Basically, you have to assign a Distribution Key to the Production Version (C223) of the Products which are to have continuous output and define a Distribution Key for the components that are to have continuous input in the BOM.
When you send the source of supply to APO, field "I/O Scheduling" for the continuous products will be filled as "Continuous With Offset".
Then, you can use heuristic SAP_PP_C001 to plan using conti i-o.
In the Product View, Elements tab, you can display fields "Continuous Scheduling Date" and "Continuous Scheduling Time". For a Receipt element, Cont. Sched. Date is the date in which the product starts being available. For Requirements elements, Cont. Sched. Date is the date in which the requirement ends (e.g. when the whole quantity needs to be available). On APO, we do not display many elements for a same order like we do on ECC.
Also in the Product View, when using continuous i/o, open menu Settings -> User Settings and go to tab "Product 1". There, set the flag "Distributed Qties". Then, adopt the changes and go to tab Quantities. Instead of seeing the production in steps, you will see curve where the cumulated receipts overlap the cumulated demands most of the time.
On APO, the quantity is distributed through the duration of the produce activity, so if the produce activity in the source of supply of the finished product is much longer or much shorter than the produce activity in the source of supply of the component, the orders will not overlap throughout the whole production.
One more information is that planning too many products with conti i-o has a really bad impact in performance on APO (e.g. liveCache takes a lot of time to calculate dynamic pegging).
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