Schedule lines as forecast demand

[Former Member]

Hi

We have a specific requirements for Demand Planning against the customer schedule lines. If the customer schedule lines are received as Forecast we don't want to produce products but at the same time want the demand to be propagated down the BOM level for sharing the demand of Raw Materials with Vendors. We want the production to initiate only when the customer sends a JIT release against this forecast. Has anyone worked on this or any ideas on how this can be achieved in the system.

Thanks

[Former Member]

in std SAP, if you use for example str 50, the planned orders are of type VP and not convertible until there is a sales order arriving. However, if you use SA-Fct and JIT's, the planned orders are of type KD and convertible. When using SA (Fct, JIT) you get convertible orders both for forecast and firm calls. How solve that problem?

One solution idea requires 2 specific developments and combines SA-Fct and SO (firm calls):

We can use scheduling agreement forecasts that are customer specific.

We can receive  firm calls via EDI into sales orders.

We use a planning strategy like 50, that creates a specif planning segment in md04.

We can decide that a planned order from a SA-forecast should not be convertible.

When the sales orders arrive, the planned order should be convertible to production orders and the forecast in the scheduling agreement should be reduced.

To do this we'd need to develop two specific programs:

1 program to reduce the SA-forecast with sales orders ( if it was the same customer and material and plant)

1 background program unchecking the conversion indicator in the planned order, if it was generated/pegged from a SA-forecast. Even if you manually checked it, the conversion indicator needs to be unchecked immediately when saving.

It's just an idea, but it might work

rds

Erik

[rajkj]

Hi,

If your objective is to just explode the BOM without generating planned orders, then you can use DP-BOM. It can provide the visibility of dependent demand based on forecast of your finished goods. However, you need to CIF your raw materials and semi-finished goods to APO to generate the DP-BOM.

Other alternative is to use APO's standard functionality related to release management of sales scheduling agreements. Pl check the following link for details.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_SCM700_ehp02/helpdata/en/da/0fc43beffa6c56e10000000a114084/frameset.htm

APO plans the materials based on customer's forecast/planning schedule as well as operative (JIT) schedule. However, you can selectively convert the planned orders that were updated based on operative schedule data. It helps to generate production orders based on operative schedule in ECC. However, the planned orders (based on forecast/planned schedule) needs to be published to ECC so that your MRP run can generate demand for raw materials.

Thanks,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Hi Rajesh,

Thanks for your reply Could you please suggest is the objective can be met in ECC itself?

Thanks

[rajkj]

DP-BOM is specific to APO-DP but the other alternative using scheduling agreements may be achievable in ECC. But, I have never done this directly in ECC. Pl check from the ECC manufacturing form as well.

Thanks,

Rajesh