Buy-Night products

[former_member598521]

My customer has process they call Buy-Night which is basically running the SNP heuristic for products that have to be bought on certain day (Monday products, Tuesday Products, etc.) The vendor only delivers a certain product on certain date. Same vendor may deliver 3 products (A, B and C) product A on Monday, B on tuesday and C on Wednesday. SNP heuristic is scheduled with a product attribute in the selection to identify the day the product is to be planned. The process to way us designed is working at cost of losing flexiility.

I wat looking for ways to improve the process without succes.

First atempt was to define planning calendar at vendor location. It won't work since the calendar is location specific and not product specific for that location. The same vendor may deliver different product with different days requirement.

Second option was to set a transportation calendar but the transportation calendar is Mode specific and not product specific. same issue as above.

Does any one has had to face this issue before.

REgards,

Aldo Silva

[rajkj]

Hi Aldo Silva,

You can influence the SNP heuristics  in an indirect way as follows.

• Create a time stream (assuming it will be specific to vendor location product) marking product delivery dates as working days
• Assign this time stream id to location product master record using any one of free attributes (ATT01 to ATT05, extra tab in location product master)
• Using macro function MATLOC_EXTRA, retrieve the location product specific delivery time stream
• Using another macro function CALENDAR_WDAYS, determine the working days that drive safety and target stock which in turn influence the planned order creation by heuristics.

Thanks,
Rajesh