Editing Sales orders and inquiry in APO SNP

[Former Member]

We have a scenario, where we will have both Sales Orders & Forecast for a MTO scenario as below.

                            Day1 Day2  Day3 Day4 Day5 Day6

Customer Orders - 10         12   14          -     -    -

Forecast     -                                       16    18   20

Customer Orders are either can be inquiry or Sales Orders. And Forecast is basically planned in DP and will be released to SNP.

Sales order won't consume forecast. Production happens against Sales orders. Forecast is just used for component planning and will be planned in other systems(Not APO or ECC).

Normally Sales orders integrated in to SNP is not editable in SAP APO. But here customer has a requirement to edit the order quantity & also to shift the orders into different bucket(because of capacity limitation or priority).

Is there is any workaround to create the different order/order category with reference to Sales Order or Forecast? And once the change is done in APO, this can be applied to ECC orders by custom program? Please suggest.

[former_member244427]

Hello,

Yes you can change the sales orders from APO based on capacity availability, production plan, components availability, priority or many other predefined defined criteria. This functionality is called GATP and Back order processing in APO.

Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP) - SAP Library

Regards

Abhishek

[Former Member]

Hi Abhishek

I think you are talking about the confirmation or confirmation quantities which system does automatically based on certain rules defined. This is more or less allocation process which I think different.

Amol

[former_member244427]

Hello Amol,

Allocation is one type of method used for GATP. But yes you got the point, this is the closest you can get to your requirement and modify the confirmations sent to the customer based on capacity or other constants.

If the customer is VMI managed, then you can use TLB to create sales orders from APO and modify as well.. but it will be a completely different path.

Regards

Abhishek

[Former Member]

Hi Nagarjuna

Source of sales orders are ECC system and you should not even try to change it in APO system.

You might create huge issue with consistencies of data points across the system. It´s also not according to SAP standard.

You should try to convenience the business to preform the changes in ECC itself.

In worst case, you can think about calling the change sales order in ECC T-code or report from APO system itself via RFC connections. So business can execute the changes vai APO but actual changes are happening in ECC and getting transferred to APO via CIF.

This assures you have consistent set up and also follow SAP standard approach.

Thanks

Amol