Planned Orders Confirmed In R/3 not changing in APO

[Former Member]

We have planned production orders in APO, with order category of EE, that get CIF'd to R/3. In our planning books they show in the production planned row. When the planned orders are confirmed in R/3, the planned orders continue to show as order category of EE in APO instead of being marked as confirmed, category AJ. When planned orders are created in R/3 they come over as AJ orders but when they originate in APO they stay as EE orders. What can we do to get the planned orders to show in the production confirmed row of the planning books in APO?

[somnath_manna · Accepted solution]

Hi Chuck,

I am assuming you are creating the planned orders in APO using SNP. Standard SNP setup creates SNP generated planned orders as EE. Ideally you would convert these SNP Planned Orders to PPDS Planned Orders (Category AI) and transfer them to R/3.

You may like to change the category defined in 9APPROD - Production (Planned) keyfigure of your SNP planning area to AI and recreate the planned orders.

Thanks,

Somnath

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Somnath,

Thanks for your response. The planned orders are created in APO using SNP. I have two additional questions: 1. If we continue to use order category EE and send them to R/3, is there a way to identify in SNP when the orders have been scheduled in R/3? 2. How do you convert SNP Planned orders to PPDS planned orders if we are not using PPDS?

Thanks again.

Chuck Heron

[somnath_manna · Accepted solution]

Hi Chuck,

Based on your feedback I think it is better for you to take the path explained by Harish. Basically get the scheduled orders (category AJ) in a different keyfigure (Production Confirmed) which is mapped to category group FP1 which contains AJ category.

If you are not using PPDS (no master data like PPDS PPM exists) then no point converting the SNP Planned Orders to PPDS Planned Orders.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Somnath

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Harish and Somnath -

Here is the actual and complete scenario. APO is integrated with Repetitive manufacturing in R/3.

SNP Heuristic creates SNP Planned Orders(Category EE). These planned orders are CIF'fed to R/3 and are used by REM. The order type in REM for these orders is PE. Meaning these kind of orders cannot be converted into a production order.There is no conversion of orders or confirming of orders in R/3. The only thing that is done on these orders are they are "scheduled" and even after they are scheduled the order type remains PE and does not change. R/3 folks are not concerned anymore since they see 2) a new tab on the order which gives them the scheduling information.

I have tried out the option of creating a new category group by copying the existing category group FP1( which already contains AJ) and adding EE and assigning this Category group to the confirmed production KF but it did not work. I am assuming since PE did not change in R/3 , no changes have been CIF'fed to APO.

Just to summarize the requirement here:

1) EE orders are created in SNP( Planned Production 9APPROD Key figure) and CIFfed to R/3 and show up as PE orders in R/3 --this works fine since its standard behavior.

2) But as soon as these PE order is scheduled, the order qty should move from Planned production KF to Confirmed production KF 9AFPROD.

Hope this is clear and will appreciate any inputs. I just started looking at this problem today and will post as soon as I fix it. Please let me know if you need any further info.

Thanks a ton!

Varun

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

did you assign (the copy of) FP1 to every time the KF is assigned to a POS aggregate?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Harish -

Yes, I did assign the copy of FP1 category group ( this new category has EE in it and lets call it ZFP which also has EE,AJ and few others categories)to 9ASNPBAS and another aggregate 9AMALA(this is the only other aggregate which has confirmed production KF 9AFPROD).

I do have few questions though.

1) How can adding EE to the new category logically work in this case. Dont you think if we have category EE in both ZFP confirmed production and also for Planned production 9APPROD create duplicate data since the system will read EE again when displaying the confirmed prod KF value from LC? Meaning based on my settings below in the PA:

Key figure Category Group Category

9APPROD(planned prod) EE

9AFPROD(planned prod) ZFP

Data in the planning book would look something like this:

Planned production 10

Confirmed production 10

No matter what we do in R/3 with the REM planned order, the order type PE does not change. It remains PE and not sure if thats how standard REM planned orders work. Since PE does not change, we dont see any changes to the category in APO. I am now really curious as to how APO works with REM in this kind of a scenario where once REM gets its planned orders and they are scheduled directly in the R/3 planning board.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello People -

I was able to make this work. I split the category EE as EE unfixed and EE fixed in SPRO.

Planned production now has only EE unfixed and confirmed production is mapped to a new category group which is a copy of FP1 but also includes EE fixed.

thanks for your inputs!

Varun

[somnath_manna · Accepted solution]

Hi Varun,

Appreciate if you can explain how you split the EE category to EE Unfixed and EE Fixed in SPRO.

Thanks,

somnath

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Somnath -

In SPRO-->Maintain category Groups> One of the columns is "Quantity Type" and the options available are "blank", meaning both unfixed and fixed, U and F which are unfixed and fixed respectively.

Please let me know if you have any more questions or if you think that something can go wrong by doing this. Just in case you foresee some problem which I may have missed!

Thanks

Varun

[Former Member]

if your requirement is just to show EE orders to show in production confirmed row you need to add category EE to a copy of category group FP1 (which already has AJ) which is attached to production confirmed row

In plannign area design attach this catogory group to the KF Production confirmed)

There are a few recent discussions on adding category groups etc on the forum that might help too