Strategy 40 with planning material - planning plant scenario

[former_member532441]

Hi All,

I have a below scenario at my company for which I am looking to find a solution.

1. Material # XYZ exists in plant 1 (Manufacturing plant) and Plant 2 (Distr. Center)

2. Forecast is at plant 2 (DC) and strategy assigned is 40. So material is stocked only at Plant 2 (DS).

3. Material Master at Plant 1 has Planning material and planning plant maintained as XYZ Plant 2 in the MRP 3 view.

4. Need to configure a Z strategy that can be assigned at Plant 1 for the following requirement.

Requirement 1 - When there is a sales Order at Plant 1, the Planned Ind Req shall be consumed from plant 2. Sales order at Plant 2 will work normally as it works in Strategy 40.

SAP has standard Strategies 60 and 63 that are designed to work with planning material and planning plant scenario but these strategies have to be assigned to the material at both the location and my understanding is that these strategies do not take stock in consideration.

So I can not assign one of these to the material XYZ at plant 2.

Any ideas and/o suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

[Gopinath_Ram]

Hello Divyakumar,

PIR are specific to Plant. In my opinion there is no possibility in Standard to consume the PIR in other plant.

In your business case the demand is from 2 ways ,

1)Sales order in Plant 1

2) PIR based on Forecast in Plant 2 historical values.

I would suggest that to bring the requirement to one plant i.e. transfer the PIR to Plant 1.

Now using strategy 40 the PIR's can be consumed by sales order in Plant 1 itself.

The Stock to other plant 2 can be fulfilled using the Special Procurement Key "Production in other plant".

Please correct me if any mistake in my understanding.

Regards

Gopinath R

[former_member532441]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

Actually, if we assign strategy 60 to the material at both plant 1 & plant 2, then in the Material master setting of plant 1 in MRP 3 view If we put Material number and plant 2 in the field Planning material and planning plant. Then a sales order at plant 1 would actually consume the PIR from plant 2.

But the issue is that strategy 60 would not take stock into account. So it would create a planned order for every Sales order regardless of available stock.

I can check the special procurement key if that works with our requirement or not.

Thanks