Confirmed delivery date in sales order

[former_member208199]

Hi experts,

Confirmed delivery date need to be calculated by the system considering available capacity.

Now system is calculating the no.of days from the material master and Gr processing time and rout determination and saying the confirmed qty and delivery date. If we look at the actual process, most of the times capacity will not be there during that period. Because of that we are forced to give wrong commitment to the customer.

System should propose the Delivery date and confirmed qty taking in to account the available capacity.

Please help us how to go for Capacity planning in sales order level,

thanks in advance

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Raj,

This is a fairly common request for solution in ECC.  Unfortunately, SAP has never provided a standard solution in ECC that meets most people's requirements.

There are a couple of workarounds that I have seen used.  You can do a pseudo cap-restricted ATP by providing a constrained forecast (the forecast is equal to your capacity), and then performing ATP against Forecast instead of against Stock and future inbound elements.  Strategy 63, among others, fits nicely because the forecast is created against a planning material (which actually represents groups of materials), and not against single Finished Goods materials.

Or, you can leave your sales orders unconfirmed upon initial entry; then run MRP; run cap leveling; and then run V_V2 to confirm the sales orders against the now capacity-limited supply plan.

Both of the above mentioned workarounds have drawbacks.

SAP has created ATP solutions in APO that directly solve these problems.  Two that come to mind are Capable to Promise and MultiLevel ATP.

In addition, some companies have pursued custom solutions within ECC that solve these business requirements.

Sorry I don't have a better answer.  Maybe some of the other experts have more ideas.....

Best regards,

DB49

[former_member208199 · Accepted solution]

Dear Dogboy,

Thank you very much for your immediate reply and details that you have given.

Can we achieve this requirement through any ABAP Development.

Idea is to fetch the Capacity evolution screen, leveling screen with in Sales order, and do the leveling to the period where actually the capacity is free for use. Then Final delivery date  for customer should be automatically calculated as Available date from the production after leveling + GR time + Picking & packing time + Root determination time(days) to reach to the customer.

could you please help on this aspect.

Thanks in advance

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Raj,

Can we achieve this requirement through any ABAP Development.

Of course.  If you have enough time and enough money and enough ABAP'ers, anything is possible.

Idea is to fetch the Capacity evolution screen, leveling screen with in Sales order, and do the leveling to the period where actually the capacity is free for use...

Interesting concept. 

Remember, during the ECC SD ATP check, Sales orders by themselves are not relevant for capacity requirements or capacity consumption or capacity leveling; only Planned orders or Production orders actually consume capacity. 

I would think that your custom solution design should somehow answer at least the following questions:

a. Of all the capacity producing resources within the factory, which one(s) should be checked/leveled?

b. How much capacity from these resources will be required to fill each new sales order, and for how long will the sales order need to consume capacity?

c. Once a Sales order is confirmed, how will the capacity be prevented from being consumed by other sales orders.

d. How will this solution react to Sales order increases/decreases/cancellations.

Good Luck on your project.  Please let us know the results after you have developed your custom solution.

Best Regards,

DB49

[former_member208199 · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much Dogboy for your concerns,

As per our discussion,

On way of work around is complete development using ABAPers,

Secondly we have to go with APO for CTP process.

Looking forward for any alternative suggestions / solutions,

Thanks in advance

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi raj

APO CTP has all the solution for your issue. If your business is planning to go for APO then these will be addressed.

My experience is that ABAP development is very complicated as reading capacity requirement and capacity levelling for future is not up to mark. There are lot of assumptions and generally results are not even close to good.

This is my experice in current project. We have convienced business to go for APO.

[former_member208199 · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much Animesh for your prompt reply,

Could you please tell us settings required to for CTP in APO,

Thanks in advance

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Raj,

Read more about CTP in SAP help.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm700_ehp02/helpdata/EN/4b/ea98d3179d93459ffcafcb349fffe9/frameset.htm

Some people also use MLATP to solve business problems that require an Availability check that considers capacity.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm700_ehp02/helpdata/EN/05/7e1f3bc779144ae10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Best regards,

DB49

[ann_hustis]

Hi Raj,

If you choose the correct planning strategy and use the correct ATP check you can commit a Sales Order quantity taking into consideration the Capacity at the work centers.  It is possible within standard SAP ECC. 

Please see my very detailed answer following this link.  It is similar to Dogboy's answer but with a bit more detail since we had to solve this very issue at my current client.

http://scn.sap.com/thread/3215343

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Ann