Setting up SNP with ECC at a macro level

[Former Member]

Hello experts

What are the different scenarios that can be set up with SNP - ECC - SNP with respect to Distribution planning ?

Meaning stock transfers , assuming PPDS will be active and will only be used for creating PPDS planned orders.

We have 10 plants and 34 DC's and regional DC's.

Thank you.

Regards

KK

[Former Member]

Hi

Did you check about the SAP APO deployment functionality,Please find below the link.

Deployment - Replenishment Planning - SAP Library

Please let me know if it´s right direction for you. If yes, I can share more experience from my side.

If not request you to explain your requirement in little bit detail way.

Thanks

Amol

[Former Member]

Hello

In the first set of activities -

P Req Rel is created in Supplying Plant after SNP heuristic is run in DC.

In R/3 we have Preq against DC.

How will the execution go forward in a std SAP process ?

[Former Member]

HI KK

This is more an architecture question that has to be addressed at macro level.

Assuming your demand is coming from DP or somewhere outside, a SNP run either SNP Heuristics or CTM or optimizer could be setup to move that demand from DCs to Plants. Then you run the planing runs at each plant in PPDS producing planned orders in short term and SNP run for medium to long term. If you have external procurement, the system creates purchase reqs.

If your plants are sourcing your DCs and then to regional DCs, you may want to run this in 3 stages, first SNP from regional DC to DC, then DC to plant and finally at Plant.

At one of our projects, we separated the SNP runs into Heuristic( where these is no capacity issue) and some into CTM ( where there are more constraints).

Based on the scenario, you may choose to integrate these planed orders, purchase reqs. from SNP/PPDS to ECC and execute there.

You may also run a deployment run from the plants to DCs and not integrate these deployment reqs. with ECC ( as you would not execute them yet), then finally convert these deployment reqs. into STOs/POs and then push these to ECC for execution.

There are infact so many possibilities based your business need. You may take above as a frame work. Hope this helps.