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Prevent re-scheduling of production orders in APO

Former Member
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Dear APO Gurus,

We create SNP planned orders in APO, and convert them to production orders in ECC. The production orders are scheduled in external detailed

scheduling system. After the rescheduling, the order dates do not match in ECC and APO.The production orders are rescheduled in APO, and it changes

the dates. Our requirement is once order is scheduled or operations dispatched to work centers in ECC, then APO should not reschedule the orders and dates should be same. Any idea how to achieve this?

I already contacted SAP, and according to them APO is the scheduling leading system so if you change order dates in ECC then dates will not be taken over in standard 1:1 due to the fact APO is scheduling the order. SAP suggests to re-transfer the order dates determined in APO after re-scheduling to ECC (in SAP note 684356). This is not acceptable as we will loose the scheduling of orders done by scheduling system in ECC.

Is there any way to prevent that APO do not reschedule the production orders, and accepts the dates from ECC.

Kind regards,

Mukesh

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former_member190993
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Hi Mukesh,

Yes, SAP APO being the leading scheduling system, SAP recommends to start planned order conversion from APO. If the planned order conversion takes place in R/3 and when the production orders is transferred to APO, it gets rescheduled in APO and the dates mismatch occurs.

The operations in R/3 production orders which have status DSEX are not rescheduled in APO. You may explore this, but not sure if implementing this will be feasible. Please refer to SAP note 579758 for more information.

Regards,

Umesh

Former Member
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Hi Umesh,

Thanks for your reply. The actual issue is the production orders are scheduled in external system with certain optimization logic. In such case, order operation does not get the status "DSEX". When they are transferred, APO reschedules them and then dates are different. The dependent demand for the components also gets the wrong availability dates.

Regards,

Mukesh

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