Shelf life planning

[Former Member]

Hi

This question is with respect to shelf life planning :

Planning with Shelf Life Data in PP/DS - Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) - SAP L...

What exactly is the system doing APO PPDS when it is planning based on shelf life? Is the system considering the shelf life days and keeping those in planned order created, so that these can be transferred to production order/stock when created?

Appreciate if any one can thrown light on this.

[rupesh_brahmankar3 · Accepted solution]

Hello K A,

If a heuristic for planning standard lots (for example, the standard heuristic SAP_PP_002 or SAP_PP_SL001) should consider the shelf life conditions during planning

The stock or receipt element must have completed the maturation time by the requirements date

The stock or receipt element must keep until at least the required minimum shelf life of the requirements element

The stock or receipt element may keep at most until the required maximum shelf life of the requirements element.

For more details please refer consulting OSS note

563863 - Planning with shelf life as of APO 3.1

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Rupesh. The note is very informative.

I found the answer: Here is what the system is doing while creating planned orders.

A requirement can only peg to a receipt if the following preconditions are met:

• Requirement time >= receipt time + maturity time - maximum backwards edge length
  (note: The maximum backward edge length is maintained in the product master under 'Latest receipt maximum ... in line with requirement').  As of SCM 3.1, the field is called 'Maximum delay of a receipt').

• Requirement time + required minimum shelf life <= receipt time + shelf life

Requirement time + required maximum shelf life >= receipt time + shelf life