Production Allocation: what is the transactional process in S/4?

[Former Member]

I'm looking into the Fiori App's that are linked to Product Allocation for S/4 HANA, and I'm especially excited about the Product Allocation Overview app - a big improvement for me in terms of visibility and flexibility. I still haven't seen the report or S/4 in person, but have started my self-studies to get up to speed for future implementations.

The question I have is regarding the actual creation of an allocation in S/4, as I haven't been able to truly find a step by step guide on the transactional steps for the creation. Is there a difference between how I'm used to create an allocation in ECC6, compared to S/4? Or are we still using the whole "MC62, MC94" transactional steps also in S/4? Using a ship-to customer linked to a material, or even a Business Partner Hierarchy?

Many thanks in advance,

Susanne

[rupesh_brahmankar3 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Please refer SAP useful help document on product allocation.

Product Allocation (PAL) Advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP)

and configuration

How to Configure Product Allocation

Best Regards,

R.Brahmankar

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

First of all, many thanks for your reply! 🙂 I have read through the info and I can see that it most likely differs somewhat from the pure transactional flow that I'm used to in ECC6 (using transactions like MC62 and MC94). That's not a bad thing at all, as those operational transactions are very "heavy" to work with and we have really been hoping for improvements to come to the process.

One thing I would like to understand though, and that links to the pure Customer Master set up and the use of Customer Hierarchies.These Customer Hierarchies (transaction VDH1N in ECC6) link both to pricing but also any Product Allocation object we create. There are instances that we don't want to go down to the pure customer number but rather specify a specific volume to the "Hierarchy" as a whole (for example: we want to reserve 2000 cse to Sainsbury's in general, not split that volume down on each individual Ship-to customer that links to Sainsbury's).

- Is that possible in S/4 to also do?

In the notes I can see that examples links to the Ship-to customer, but this is not how we use it currently. In our Company Ship-to's are rarely linked / specified in VDH1N / Customer Hierarchy as they're not linked to any Pricing: that's all on the Sold-to level. It would be great to receive any details on this, to know a bit more on how the future could be with the workheavy process.

Many thanks again and all the best,

Susanne