Safety days supply not followed due to change in Means of Transport in SNP

[Former Member]

Hello All,

I am facing a strange issue regarding the SNP heuristics and means of transport. We observed that the system was not respecting the safety days supply. For example if we had a receipt in bucket 'N' and there is a violation of safety days supply in bucket 'N-1'. When we un a heuristic ideally system should delete the receipt in bucket 'N' and create a new one in bucket 'N-1'.

But we observed that the system is retaining the existing receipt in bucket 'N' and also creating a new one in bucket 'N-1'. This is making the available days supply to increase manyfolds and the whole plan looks inconsistent from Safety Days point of view.

After analyzing the issue i observed that if we have existing receipts using a Means of Transport 'X'. Now if we run the heuristic using a Means of Transport 'Y' then the system doesnt touch the existing receipts. If I run teh heuristics using the existing Mean of Transport then it works absolutely fine.

Kindly suggest.

Regards,

Abhi

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are setting the 'ALL PRODUCTS' checkbox for a MoT to ensure that that particular MoT is used by SNP heuristics.The transportation duration difference b/w the 2 means of transport is more than 10 days as one is 'Ship' and other is 'Plane'.

[Former Member]

Hi,

when you check all products flag it means the means of transport is available for all products and not product specific, to select the MOT for SNP you need to check the aggrgtd plng flag.

Also safety stock has nothing to do with MOT, SNP heuristic plans based on checks the quota arrangement if its for multiple MOT it will distribute the PR based on the ratio in quota if both MOT are able to meet demand on time, otherwise it will violate quota till the time both MOT are not capable of meeting the demand on time.

If no quota is defined it will check for which lane is able to meet on time n if their are multiple lanes which can fulfill demand on time then it will choose MOT with less cost.

Have you got multiple MOT for a source destination combination to be considered for SNP heuristic?

Just check your design again and explain the problem again as this is not the standard expected behavior.

Thanks,

Sanjog

[Former Member]

Hi,

How do you specify Means of Transport while running SNP heuristic and what is the business requirement for running SNP heuristic with different Means of transport.

Also is the lead time same for both the MOT or their is a difference of 1 day.

Thanks,

Sanjog