GATP - Rule based availability check

[Former Member]

Hi:

What is the meaning of having more than one condition type in the case of GATP RBA? In the context of pricing, it is understandabale because the price is additive from one condition type to the next. But in the case of GATP where we are interested in satisfying the full quantity on-time, how does it play a role? Thanks.

Satish

[Former Member]

Guys,

We are using 3 conditions. Business requirement is to fulfill an order preferably today from any of the four plants, and if not today keep looking till you have confirmed PO or stock.

So Satish depending on your requirement you may wanna use more conditions or multiple strategies with one condition each. All it boils down to is how complex your requirements are and how much business wants to naarow down all the requirements too.

Vivek

vshar99@yahoo.com

[Former Member]

Hi Satish,

Having more than one condition type in RBATP enables the system to find multiple rules. You can do the ATP check taking one rule at a time till all the requirements are confirmed/backordered.

In pricing, there is the added functionality to do calculation on the values found from the many condition records. In RBATP such calculations are not warranted. Here we are interested in finding rules which in turn contain the location determination procedure, which further contain the plants in a specified order.

For example in pricing 'Price' and 'Tax' can be the condition types. Values are derived from the pricing condition records and calculations can be done on those values in the pricing procedure of the document. Similary in RBATP 'Fulfillment' and 'Backorder' can be the two condtion types. Based on the two condition types the sales order can derive two rules. These two rules can have different plants in their search parth. You can say that for fulfillement always look at Plant A, then at Plant B. If the parts are not available at these two plants, sales order will go to the backorder condititon type and find another rule, this time the backorder rule and you can have plant C here.

If this leads to another question please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks and regards

Sanjeev

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjeev:

Tha SAP documentation says that for the most part, only one condition type is needed. I was reading some other documentation and came across a useful situation where more than one condition type will be needed. This is where you want to have one generic rule for say a certain customer group that has 100 customers and then you want to have an exclusive rule for only five of the 100 customers. In this case, rather than modeling 100 rules that map to 100 condition types, you model one inclusive condition type for all the 100 customers and then an exclusive condition type for the 5 customers who are an exception.

I talked to Pradeep Rao and he suggested that I talk to you. Can you send me e-mail at satish.vadlamani@gmail.com and tell me how to reach you? I would appreciate that. Thanks.

Satish Vadlamani