Hi Ashwani,
Try to cif all the materials, workcentres again and check if they are available in APO system.
CIF the SNP PDS later, you would be able to see the PDS in APO system.
To check the cif error , you can either see it in the outbound queue or you can even check it while ciffing PDS.
For more information kindly go through the below link.
Production Data Structure in SNP - Master Data for Supply Network Planning - SAP Library
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Jyoti
Hi Gurus,
We are using Planning Strategy 20 - Planning with final assembly in SNP-CTM. Currently sales orders consume the forecast as and when created. We have introduced a new sales order category ZFT item category = ZPR. We want these sales order also to consume the forecast.
What setting changes are to be done to enable this.
Thanks
kamal.
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Alok
Hello,
If the sales order with the customizing item category does not consume forecast in APO, you'll first need to check whether requirement is generated for it in VBBE, and whether the SO is in APO. If SO is in APO, please check note 2147386 - General reasons for sales order not consuming forecasts. I'm sure it will clarify necessary settings for you.
Best Regards,
Ada
Hi All,
We came across the following issue recently:
The given product, location combination is designated to the selection used for AUTO model selection (strategy 56). So as expected, it is subjected to Auto Model forecasting. Please refer the screenshot below for better understanding:
We've based our forecasting on Corrected Sales History key figure (3rd key figure above, this is the key figure we reference in Historical Key figure in Univariate profile).
We thought that the forecasting model will read the Corrected Sales History key figure. However, when we run in background, it selects Croston method because it thinks that there are more than 66.67% zeros in historical data (which is not true as seen above).
Background job log:
However, when we run it interactively, it doesn't have 0 values in corrected history:
Can someone give us some inputs as to what is going on?
Following are the settings we have:
1) Corrected Sales History is macro calculated key figure (Sales History or Sales Adjustments)
2) Corrected History is system calculated key figure (as it is assigned in PA Admin > Extra > Forecast Settings)
3) We've not checked 'Read Corr. History Data from Planning Version' check box under Read Historical Data tab of Univariate profile
4) We do not have any outlier correction, set up for the Auto Model.
Thanks!
Hi,
First thought, is the corrected sales history key figure a liveCache key figure (instead of auxiliary key figure)? If yes, is the value saved to liveCache?
Please copy your data view without activating any macro, and check the data again. Only when you see data in a data view without macro, does it mean the data is really in liveCache.
BR, Ada
Hi Ada,
Thanks for your reply.
The Corrected Sales History Key Figure is a liveCache key figure (not auxillary).
The calculations are running fine with other product locations and as macro runs in background, it saves the calculated values.
Having said that, I will check and confirm if the values are really getting saved in liveCache.
Is there a way to view the liveCache values other than creating a different data view?
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Hiren
Hello
Create a copy of the data view is a best practice. In the copied data view, macros will be in inactive status automatically.
Please also make sure you're viewing the correct planning object as in the background run, avoiding reading data at aggregated level in interactive planning book.
BR, Ada
Hello
Can you please check whether Read System Corrected History indicator was ticked in the Forecast Profile you were using ?
Thanks Dogboy 49 for the help.. Followed the steps you had suggested and the SAP help link that you provided helped a lot. You are doing a great job!
Lots of Thanks,
Sandeep
Hello Bhuvan,
Did you recently apply any SAP OSS notes ? or upgraded your system ? For me this looks to be a case of inconsistency in the system due to missing code.
Function module ME_APO_INITIALIZE_PO has the importing parameter IT_ATPFIELD_AB that had been added as part of one of the Service Pack releases. So, for sure this is brought by a note and it is clearly missing.
Please raise a ticket to SAP
Thanks & Best Regards,
Babu Kilari
Hi Alok,
Thanks for your reply. By custom heuristic you mean the coding of the heuristics to be developed and then assign to products or if the settings could be modeled according to the requirement above? Since I was not sure which standard heuristics gives the option of time offset and tweak the demand quantities
Appreciate your thoughts on this
Regards,
Guru
Yes we are facing this issue in Quality system after system copy from Production.
I think I have no other choice left than raising this to SAP. Thanks!
Hi ,
Why would you have several PDS's with alternate modes for the same item instead of one PDS with all the other modes underneath? Are the BOMs /recipes different for each PDS ?
Joe
Hi Guru,
An Option would be to create a custom category for Demand which will be calculated in Planning Book as 15% of the Actual Demand. Release this calculated quantity to SNP via MC90. You can then run PP/DS heuristics as required. With this method, you will have flexibility to control the % you would want to add to the demand.
Regards
AK
So, the quality system has a note which wasn't there in Prod. It's a delta. You may also try to debug the FM that calls the said FM to track the SAP note responsible for this.
Cheers,
Babu Kilari
Hi Experts,
I would like to ask for your advise on the setups for subcontracting wherein we use different production and planning location in APO.
Here's our supply/production flow.
We have a Finished Good (FG) which is being sold at Distribution Center (DC). The production is happening at location PR while the planning is at location PL. So t-lane setup, which is created manually in APO, at FG level is from PL --> DC. Upon running location heuristics at FG-DC, purchase requisitions will be created at FG-DC whilst Stock Transport Requisitions at FG-PL. No issue on this point.
We have a PPDS PPM created from Production Version in ECC and transferred via CIF to APO. PPDS PPM is at FG-PR which contains Semi-Finished Goods 1 (SFG1) as component being planned in APO. In APO, the PPDS PPM is manually changed such that Planning Location will be PL and Production Location is PR. Please comment on this setup if this is okay. Similarly, we create SNP PPM based on PPDS PPM following the planning and production locations. Hence, whenever we run either Product Heuristics or Location Heuristics at FG-PL, the output gives us PPDS Planned Orders within the production horizon and SNP Planned Orders outside SNP horizon. Also, automatically, the dependent demand is exploded at SFG1-PL. We don't have issue at this stage but I want to make sure if you have any comments especially on the planning and production location at PPMs.
The SFG1 is actually being subcontracted at Vendor (VE). Hence, we created Purchase Info Records and Contracts for SFG1-VE and use PL as plant. At this point, I want to ask again if this is okay since the production is not at PL but rather in PR. This Purchase Info Record is transferred to APO via CIF in order to create External Procurement Relationship and so to automatically create t-lane i.e. VE --> PL at SFG1 level. Not only the Purchase Info Record, but also the Contract from ECC is transferred to APO. Both Purchase Info Record and Contract have valid end date i.e. 12/31/2016. Since we have already the dependent demand at SFG1-PL, we can run location heuristics so that the output will be a Subcon Purchase Requisitions at SFG1-PL and SFG1-VE. However, the output that we are getting at this point are APO local orders only (8*) and these local orders are not getting converted into Subcon orders (3*). Note that IMs for transaction data (PO and PR) are maintained and active for SFG1-PL. Even if I create Subcon Purch Req manually via interactive planning in APO, still the output are always APO local orders. And if I run reconciliation and push the Subcon Purch Req to ECC, the following errors are appearing via CFG1 in ECC:
"Fill in all required fields"
"Error during creation; GUID: Le5* ; Item 00*"
"Error during creation; GUID: Le5* ; Item"
Let me know if you have any idea on the errors.
Now, we also transferred the subcon Production Version from ECC to APO such that we can have PPDS PPM for SFG1-VE which contains Semi-Finished Goods 2 (SFG2) as component being planned in APO. At this point, we also changed the planning location as PL and Production location as VE in our PPDS PPM. Is this correct? The concept is the same for SNP PPM for SFG1. So, whenever we run either Product Heuristics or Location Heuristics at SFG1-PL, the output gives PPDS and SNP Planned Orders but both orders are still in APO local orders (8*). Can you comment if we have the correct setup on PPMs?
Thanks and would appreciate your response here.
Regards,
AA
Hi Babu,
It turns out that after the system refresh, there was a transport moved which should not have been done. It was simply a case of version mismatch! Thanks for the help. 
Regards,
Bhuvan Paliwal
Dear all, the issue was solved after maintaing purchase org under the purchasing view in the material master. Thanks anyway for the help.
This can be closed. We maintained purchasing org in the purchasing view of material master and all APO local orders were turned inti correct order numbers. Thanks!