Production order dates not in sync between ECC and APO

[Former Member]

Dear Folks,

Currently we are facing below two issues related to production orders.

1) Production order dates not in sync between ECC and APO.

To give some background, planned orders are created during the weekend CTM run which are then converted to production orders in ECC. When the production order is in either created or released status, the scheduled start and finish dates in ECC match with the start and end dates in APO, but when either the first or last operation is confirmed, the confirmed start date from production order in ECC overwrites the start date of production order when see in productview in APO and thus the dates for the production order in ECC and APO get out of sync.

Also, when I re-schedule the production order in ECC after the first operation is confirmed (assuming 2 more operations are remaining) the new schedued dates are calculated based on the time taken for remaining 2 operations and these new scheduled dates are passed on to APO. In this situation the dates are in sync.

Help me understand the behaviour.

2) Production orders not generated by PPDS are having status 'EXTS' (Orders scheduled by external system).

For some production orders which are converted from planned orders generated through CTM, the status of these orders are EXTS even when the scheduling of these orders are happening in ECC.

For test purposes, I pushed the inconsistent production orders to R/3 which led to setting of the status to 'EXTS'.

In which scenario, the status of the production orders can be set to EXTS other than mentioned above (PPDS prod orders/orders pushed to R/3 in CCR)?

Regards,

Abhijeet

[Former Member]

Hi Abhijit,

this is designed behavior. we currently facing same issue, we have Z program to match the dates for planned order.

but during prod order transfer we found similar behavior and after working with SAP we understand, this is SAP behavior and as expected.

only option is to confirm the operation completely.  I understand partial confirmation is an issue (e.g. 10 quantity to be confirmed and you confirmed only 5 in co11n for an operation e.g. 0010).

Please read the below notes and you will understand the same. 515913   this explain you the details.

we are having a badi where are making an enhacement to allow/ignore such prod order. In our case, issue is due to old lagcy order which were loaded as part ot cut over.  but this might happen if user do a partial confirmation. we found issue while analysing the capacity load situations, it wont match due to partial confirmed orders.

Hope this helps you.

Pravin M