APO and Make to Order environment

[Former Member]

Hi, I am a Master scheduler for a MTO manufacturer, we implemented SAP 3 months ago. We have R3 4.7 and APO, however with the current APO configuration it causes us to not be able to deliver on time 90 % of the time.

Reasons are: we make 80% of our sub-assemblies and with APO allowing full lead time for all material, this pushes my planned/ production orders out to the longest leadtime. This causes us to purchase our material with shorter lead-time to the later requirement date.

Is there a different way to configure APO to execute purchase/ make material to my customer need date rather than ATP date?

Thank you in advance,

LS

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Which scheduling direction are you using in APO? if you use backwards for the order creation this would meet the finished manufacturing date to the Requirements date.