Make To Order

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Hi All

What is make to order ? In which situtiation we use it .Can we make the material as make to order if it is assignes as a stock material? Also please mail me the configuration path for the same.

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Kind Rgds

Aniruddha

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Hi,

Make-to-order production is a process in which a product is individually manufactured for a particular customer. In contrast to mass production, for an unspecified market, where a material is manufactured many times, in make-to-order production a material is created only once though the same or a similar production process might be repeated at a later time.

Stockkeeping is not usually carried out for products that are made to order.

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[Former Member]

Make-to-Order (MTO) Production

Purpose

The planning strategies explained in this section are designed for the production of a material for a specific individual sales order. In other words, you do not want to produce finished products until you receive a sales order. This means that make-to-order strategies always support a very close customer-vendor relationship, because your sales orders are closely linked to production.

The same relationship exists between the sales order and production that exists in a make-to-order environment. Make-to-order is also used in the following environments.

Production using variant configuration

Assemble-to-order

Prerequisites

Choose a make-to-order strategy, if:

The materials are segregated. In other words, they are uniquely assigned to specific sales orders.

Costs must be tracked at sales order level and not on material level.

Make-to-order strategies should always be combined with lot-size key EX (lot-for-lot. Rounding values should not be used. If you maintain rounding values, they have no effect due to the make-to-order properties of these strategies.

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Process Flow</b>:

There are extensive options that enable you to procure components especially for specific sales order items.

You may, however, want to use a different planning strategy to procure components without sales orders. This allows you to keep your replenishment lead time to a minimum. You can do this by:

Planning on the basis of the finished product (see Planning Without Final Assembly (50) or Planning with a Planning Material (60))

Planning at component level (see Strategies for Planning Components)

Using consumption-based or Kanban-controlled components

Customer stock can exist on any BOM level. See Stockkeeping at Different BOM Levels for more information.

Because production is closely linked to sales orders, this results in a customer section in the stock/requirements list.

Unplanned goods receipts (such as returns) cannot, as a rule, be used for other sales orders, even if they are in working order, unless they are adapted to meet a customer's needs.

In the basic make-to-order strategy, Make-to-Order Production (20), no specific product structures are required. This means that it does not matter if the material has a BOM or not. The material can be produced in-house, or it can be procured externally. No planning is involved in this strategy.

Planning Without Final Assembly (50) and Planning with a Planning Material (60) do require a specific product structure (i.e. a BOM, which means materials are always produced in-house). These planning strategies assume that you want to plan procurement (production or purchasing) of your components by planning the finished products. This means that you need to have a fairly stable demand for your finished products. If, however, you can plan more easily at component level than at finished product level, see Strategies for Planning Components.

<b>Configuration Settings:</b>

Create material master by maintaining general item category group- 0001(make to order)

Availability check - 02

Transportation Group - 0001

go to va01 and raise sales order

item category:TAk

Schedule line category : cp

Requirement type KE

Requirement class 040

Check TOR and avalability check

special stock : E

VOV7

of TAK

billing relivence : A

Pricing :X

go to mb1c

maintain stock with a special stock indicator E

mavement type 61

Special stock E

specify sales order number line item number and saveit

go to VL01N main data

Go to VF01

save it

Hope this will be helpful.

regards

AK

[Former Member]

Hi Anirudha,

Check the link below.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/cb/7f94a143b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

This will explain you the concept of plaaning strategy,requirements type and make to order.

Reward points if it helps.

Regards

Karan

[Former Member]

Dear Aniruddha,

Make-to-Order (Customer Requirements):

Creating a Sales Order

Checking Requirements Using MRP

Requirements Planning

Converting the Planned Order into a Production Order

Confirming the Production Order

Checking the Settlement of the Production Order

Creating a Delivery

Creating a Billing Document

Checking Costs and Revenues on the Sales Order

http://www50.sap.com/businessmaps/092BF1DFEEB2456DADD0DD0284EBE8A2.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ides/helpdata/en/51/95368ea1fa11d189ba0000e829fbbd/content.htm

http://help.sap.com/bestpractices/industry/indusmachinerycomp/v1470/IMC_DE/html/E71_MTOSalesOrdProc_...

The planning strategies explained in this section are designed for the production of a material for a specific individual sales order. In other words, you do not want to produce finished products until you receive a sales order. This means that make-to-order strategies always support a very close customer-vendor relationship, because your sales orders are closely linked to production.

The same relationship exists between the sales order and production that exists in a make-to-order environment. Make-to-order is also used in the following environments.

Production using variant configuration

Assemble-to-order

Prerequisites

Choose a make-to-order strategy, if:

The materials are segregated. In other words, they are uniquely assigned to specific sales orders.

Costs must be tracked at sales order level and not on material level.

Make-to-order strategies should always be combined with lot-size key EX (lot-for-lot. Rounding values should not be used. If you maintain rounding values, they have no effect due to the make-to-order properties of these strategies.

Process Flow:

There are extensive options that enable you to procure components especially for specific sales order items.

You may, however, want to use a different planning strategy to procure components without sales orders. This allows you to keep your replenishment lead time to a minimum. You can do this by:

Planning on the basis of the finished product (see Planning Without Final Assembly (50) or Planning with a Planning Material (60))

Planning at component level (see Strategies for Planning Components)

Using consumption-based or Kanban-controlled components

Customer stock can exist on any BOM level. See Stockkeeping at Different BOM Levels for more information.

Because production is closely linked to sales orders, this results in a customer section in the stock/requirements list.

Unplanned goods receipts (such as returns) cannot, as a rule, be used for other sales orders, even if they are in working order, unless they are adapted to meet a customer's needs.

In the basic make-to-order strategy, Make-to-Order Production (20), no specific product structures are required. This means that it does not matter if the material has a BOM or not. The material can be produced in-house, or it can be procured externally. No planning is involved in this strategy.

Planning Without Final Assembly (50) and Planning with a Planning Material (60) do require a specific product structure (i.e. a BOM, which means materials are always produced in-house). These planning strategies assume that you want to plan procurement (production or purchasing) of your components by planning the finished products. This means that you need to have a fairly stable demand for your finished products. If, however, you can plan more easily at component level than at finished product level, see Strategies for Planning Components.

Regards,

Naveen.

[Former Member]

Dear,

Whenever customer specific requiremnts r needed, then we go for MTO scenario...where usually we dont maintain stocks....as per the customer's req we produce the material.

For pure/classical MTO ...we need to define MRP type as PD and planning strategy as 20 in the MRP1 & MRP3 view of MMR respectively.

cheers

Krishna chaitanya