Not reserve incoming puchase order quantity to SO during GATP

[Former Member]

Hi,

We are using APO GATP - I have a customer requirement wherein, Purchase order & ASN should form part of the sales orders "scope of check" for visibility of delivery dates & quantities during sales order creation but the incoming Purchase order quantities shouldn't be reserved by the sales order. Currently, GATP during sales order creation looks at the incoming PO dates/ quantities and assigns the quantity to sales line item based on the future PO date/ quantity.

The customer requirement is to "ONLY" look at the PO delivery date & quantities but not assign them to any SO because we have a subsequent BOP (Backorder processing) run to assign all available quantities to open sales orders based on customer priority and order creation dates.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Former Member]

Any insights on this gurus?

[Former Member]

Oz,

My insight is that your requirements are not all that clear.

It appears that you want Purchase orders to behave in one way for Sales order ATP during sales order entry; but you want Purchase orders to behave in a different way during batch BOP.

This can probably be achieved using RBA.  You can set up one Rule for Sales order creation and another one for BOP in background.  SCM IMG > APO > GATP > RBA > Assign Rule Strategy or Rule Strategy Sequence.

RBA in Batch Backorder Processing - Backorder Processing - SAP Library

Best Regards,

DB49.

[Former Member]

Hi Dogboy,

Thanks for your response.

To make my requirement clear, let me explain it in a slightly different way - in the current GATP setup, when I create sales orders and execute availability check, if stock is not available or short then ATP looks at future incoming purchase orders and assigns incoming PO quantities to the sales order line item.

My customer is happy that the GATP check looks at future POs for determining quantities and dates "BUT" they are not happy with sales line items reserving quantities from incoming POs as they want all available stocks in the system to be allocated to sales orders based on maintained BOP priorities only. Its a customer priority oriented business (Pharmaceutical).

Hence I need a solution which can see the incoming PO quantities and dates during sales order creation but doesn't reserve that PO stock for that sales line item!?

[Former Member]

Oz,

Hence I need a solution which can see the incoming PO quantities and dates during sales order creation but doesn't reserve that PO stock for that sales line item!?

Sorry, that makes no sense to me. In the standard GATP Product Availability Check, the Availability check does not 'reserve' PO stock (or any other type of supply element) for a particular sales line item.  All it does is generate a confirmation (or no confirmation) against the sales document.  There is usually no link of any kind in GATP between any supply elements and the sales order.

Perhaps you can better illustrate your business requirement by creating and posting an example scenario that shows the ATP behavior you wish to change, and an example scenario of how you would like the ATP to work that meets your business requirements.

Best Regards,

DB49