Quotation not trigerring Planned orders in APO

[Former Member]

Hi, This appears to be a bit lengthy but not so and so request all to spare a few minutes for the same

We have ECC  and APO in  our system. In APO we have GATP, SNP,PP/DS etc.

A new requirement came wherein we need to create a new quotation and new sales order type. These two new documents will represent the
make to order scenario. Iam an SD consultant and new to APO . In fact the APO settings are done by some other consultant

The client wanted  to trigger creation of planned order  in APO from quotation and reserve capacity in PP/DS. Also when the planned order are
created in APO_GATP , there are STR’s also created in APO-GATP at the same time to move the material among various locations. The STR”s are converted into
STO’s

The new quotation and sales order document have the same requirement class  ZYK   associated with it. The account assignment category is E for the requirement class which makes it make to order object.

Now when we are creating quotation, the schedule lines are confirmed  based on planned order created in APO.  The issue is when we create a
sales order document with reference to  quotation, the account assignment in Sales order is the quotationdocument.  When STR’are converted to STO, the account assignment in STO is the quotation document and not the sales order ! Even the planned orders have quotation as account assignment

The above behavior is standard as per SAP. When a quotation  is also a make to order object, all subsequent documents have account assignment as quotation .

To solve the above issue, I created a new requirement class for quotation without account assignment category E but the issue is that the quotation
schedule lines do not get confirmed since planned orders are not created in APO.

How to solve the below  problem

How to have schedule lines confirmed in quotation with planned orders created for them in APO. At the same time we do not want quotation to behave as make to order object. That is we do not want E in account assignment in requirement class for quotation. The client needs this since they want to reserve capacity during quotation stage ?

Once we have the above issue resolved,  then we will not have quotation as account assigned object in sales orders created with ref to such quotations and then only sales orders will be account assigned object in STO;s and  planned orders .

Regards

Pamela

[frank_horlacher]

Hi Pamela,

we have to solve the problem first that no planned orders are created when you use the new schedule line category for make to stock.

please check the following:

• The customer should have an order probability of 100% that the planned orders are created with full item quantity in APO.
• the Schedule line category shall have the settings:

Availability	An availability   check is executed for this schedule line category	X
Req./   Assembly	The   transfer of the requirement to planning is executed	X

of course all the other CTP relevant settings need to be in place but that was already the case before.

Are your item category settings different from before?

Why are you working with a make-to-order scenario in APO?

With a make to stock scenario there would be no problem with the pegging of the planned orders from the quotation to the sales order.

You have to check if when you create the sales orders that the planned orders and purchase requisitions which were created for the quotation in the make to stock segment are released during the new ATP check for the sales orders in the make to order segment and later deleted and replaced by planned orders and purchase requisition in the make to stock segment for the sales order.

BR Frank

[Former Member]

Hi Frank,

My schedule line category is enabled for availability check and TOR. Probability is 100% too.

What i was saying is that if I do not have E in account assignment category, of requirment class of the quotation, then no planned order is generated for the same in APO and quotation schedule lines are not confirmed.

I  have no knowledge of APO but it seems the settings of E in requirment class makes APO trigger planned orders and so confirm the Quot schedule lines.

Is it somethings to do with how check instrcutions are configured in APO . What should I tell my APO colleagues so that they do some kind of changes in APO-GATP so that the creation of planned orders for quotation is not dependent on the setting of E (account assignment category ) in requirment class of quotation ?

regards

Pamela

[frank_horlacher]

Hi Pamela,

can you see the quotation in the product view in APO when you create it in ERP before you save it?

If yes CTP works but the planned orders cannot be created because it is not possible.

check the PP/DS log for a reason.

check if the item is pegging relevant.

If you cannot see it the ATP settings are wrong and CTP is not called.

Br Frank

[m_manimaran]

Hi Pamela,

Please check what is the check instruction called in your quotation? You can find this by clicking the ATP button from Quotation Change transaction. In that check instruction, please check whether CTP is active by checking the Production Section. The 'Start Production' filed should be either 'Availability Check and then Production' or 'Production Directly'.

If no GATP is called and you are getting some error like Check mode ZZZ is not maintained, then check the following.

Since you have created a new requirement class without a E account assignment, now during GATP different check instruction is called. For example you new requirement class is ZZZ, then the check instruction called for quotation is with Check mode ZZZ and Business Event A.

Please see if there is a check instruction is maintained for this combination in APO.

Please check and revert.

Regards,

Manimaran M.