Planning Strategy 25

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Hi all,

Can someone throw light on Planning Strategy 25. It would be very helpful if ppl who have used the same in their issues can add their knowledge to this discussion. I'm unable to find more materials regarding the same.

Thanks in advance,

Deepak Prasanna S

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Make-to-Order Production w/ Configuration (25)

Purpose

This strategy, similar to Make-to-Order Production (20), is used when planning of the parent product is not required or not possible. Components must be planned by other means, if necessary.

This strategy is used for configurable materials. Configuration is required.

Prerequisites

You must maintain the following master data settings

Item category group for example, 0002

Strategy Group 25

Process Flow

Stage 1: Demand Management

Does not apply.

Stage 2: Procurement Before Sales

Does not apply.

Stage 3: Sales Order

You enter the variant material and its configuration. The default combination values apply and can be used as the default configuration.

Stage 4: Procurement After Sales

Variant material is produced.

Stage 5: Goods Issue for Delivery and Reduction of Planned Independent Requirements

Goods Issue for the configurable material takes place.

See also:

Comparing Strategies 25 and 26

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what is mean Strategies for Configurable Materials

Definition

A configurable material is a material for which different variants are possible.

The strategies for configurable materials allow you to plan products with an almost unlimited number of possible combinations of characteristics and combination value keys. Use these strategies if you want to plan a product that uses a feasible combination of characteristic values and that does not include final assembly. Typical examples of such products are cars, elevators, forklifts, trucks, buses.

Variants, as described in Material Variants, could not be used to plan these products because you had to create billions of variants. Entering usage probabilities for characteristic values instead allows you to plan materials that have a large number of variants. This procedure also improves change management for the components because planning is separated from construction changes.

Structure

A configurable material can have a few or very many variants, as the following examples demonstrate:

A personal computer may have several more characteristics. For example, hard disk capacity, casing, CPU, country version, color.

A car may have up to several hundred characteristics, each in turn having many characteristic values.

An elevator consists of a large number of characteristics, but cannot even be assembled without having to construct new parts for each elevator.

The number of characteristics and characteristic values (in other words, the variance) of a material is a key factor when choosing the right planning strategy. Planning a few variants differs drastically from planning thousands or millions of variants. Before you choose a planning strategy for a configurable material, you must consider the possible number of variants.

A personal computer could be produced with two different types of hard disk, three casing types, two CPU types, two country versions, and three colors which results in 72 variants

(2 * 3 * 2 * 2 * 3).

A car with several dozen characteristics could result in a million variants.

An elevator could have millions of standard variants, and an unlimited number of additional variants, produced specifically to meet customer requirements.

Integration

By choosing an appropriate approach to planning, you can reduce the complexity of planning. For example:

You use consumption-based procurement for inexpensive components and some software components. The result is you plan expensive components only. For instance, you may only want to plan CPU types and casing types, resulting in six variants.

You can also use similar approaches to planning for more complex products such as cars and elevators.

Reducing the number of variants simplifies the planning of configurable materials. Up to a certain complexity, you could plan at finished product level. For example, you could plan the number of different personal computers, such as 100 desktop PCs with a Pentium processor, and 80 tower PCs with a 486 processor.

There are two possible approaches for planning complex products such as cars:

If you allow your customers to configure the product completely, you can plan the components directly, using the strategy Planning at Assembly Level (70), for example. This approach would result in one set of planned independent requirements for all components (which are not procured on the basis of consumption or controlled by Kanban). You could enter these planned independent requirements manually, but to simplify the process you may want to plan the characteristics directly, and have the system automatically generate the planned independent requirements for the components (see strategy 89). It is also possible to use Characteristics Planning w/ Dependent Req'ts (56).

Another approach, which is possible even for very complex products such as cars, is to define a set of material variants (previously known as stockable types) which are produced using a make-to-stock strategy. The advantage of this approach is that your customers are immediately provided with products from stock. The disadvantage is that customers cannot fully configure the product. They must buy goods from stock.

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Material Master Data for Configurable Materials Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

You use central maintenance functions to create material master records for configurable materials. There is some data that you need to maintain specifically for configurable materials:

Basic Data

Material is configurable indicator

X

Sales

Item category group

0002 or 0004

See Item Categories for Configurable Materials

Delivering plant

MRP

Strategy group

For example, 25

See SAP Library PP Demand Management Structure link Strategies for Configurable Materials

MRP type

For example, PD

Not ND

See SAP Library PP Demand Management Structure link MRP Procedures

MRP lot size

EX

See SAP Library PP Material Requirements Planning Structure link Calculating Procurement Quantity

Availability check (checking group)

02

See SAP Library PP Demand Management Structure link Scope of the Availability Check

Individ./collective

1

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi all,

Is this planning strategy 25 good enough to be used in Repetitive Planning? Since Rep.Mfg. is very good for MTS strategy I'm in a dilemma if the same can be used for Rep.Mfg.Kindly help...

Thanks&Regards

Deepak Prasanna S

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No, i dont think you can use 25 in REM. Because this requires production versions and in 25 you cannot work with production versions and cost cllectors.

Regards

TAJUDDIN

[Former Member]

Dear all, by using the strategy group 25 in order to use configurable material, how can we see the costs linked to the production ?

In effect, in my reports i can see nothing in my WBS element (whih mas fill in the sales order).

It is like no costs are related to this kind of configurable material.

Any advice ?,

Thank you everybody.

[Former Member]

Planning Strategy 25

[Former Member]

Does anyone know how stock can be viewed for configurable materials.

Does ATP work at the time of Sales order to check for material avaialablity based on the variant in the sales order ?

[Former Member]

Hi Deepak

If you are looking for Variant configuration procedure pl give me your email id i will send few files

Shrish

[Former Member]

hi Shrish ,

can you plz send the files on variant config. my id is partha1mukherjee@gmail.com

[Former Member]

hi shrish,

thank u for the interest u show in resolving my query. pls send the material to my mail id deepakprasanna.s@gmail.com

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Tmorrow

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Hi Deepak,

In general strategy 20 is is used for make-to-order manufacturing.The MRP creates procurement proposals specific to sales each order.The materials are issued with reference to specific sales order (Account Assigment). The goods receipt and issue for delivery also reference to a specific sales order.The cost involved in production is settled to the sales order.

When the products are variant configuration then strategy 25 is used in make-to- order scenario.The material category is "0002" configurable material.Other processes are same as per strategy 20.

Hope it is clear.

Thanks and regards

Murugesan

[Former Member]

Hi Deepak,

Could you tell us what are the settings you have done for your material?

Like define your material master to us right defining the material type that you hve maintained for the material.

or u can follow the below links and come back to us for further clarification.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/92/58c09b417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/92/58c09b417011d189ec0000e81ddfac/frameset.htm

Regards

Srinivasan.

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Hi all,

Thank you for the help rendered. Can u also let me know if there is any restriction on this planning strategy being used in Discrete or Repetitive Manufacturing. In general can all planning strategies be used either in Discrete/Repetitive Manufacturing?

Thanks,

Deepak

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There is no restriction of using planning strategies for rem/discreate manufacturings. You can use all strategies except 83 which is for project ssytem.

strategies diffrentiation is at MTS/ MTO and as per SAP help there is no restriction in both REM and descreate.

Some special procurement keys you cannot use in REM.

Regards

TAJUDDIN

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Hi,

Check following link

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/cb/7f9b7043b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

Regards,

Suhas