Limit the number of TLB shipments in a period

[Former Member]

Hello Guys -

Can TLB limit the number of shipments and level it out or does it fall into TPVS functionality?

Example: My TLB output is 3 shipments from A to 1, 3 shipments from A to 2, 3 shipments from A to 3, but I can only ship only 6 shipments per day

(period) and want to move ( level out) the other 3 to the next period.

Appreciate your help!

Thanks

Varun

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

functionality may not be within TLB but is there way to do this with SNP?

I created a transportation resource assigned it to a means of transport, generated STOs but when I go into the capacity leveling view and pull up the resource to level out, it does not show any consumption or usage. I still my full transportation capacity.

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy · Accepted solution]

I probably did not understand the solution in context of your question. I thought you wanted to create 6 shipments in total from A to anywhere. How will this be solved by defining transportation resources for each of the t-lanes? You are trying to solve a global constraint problem with local constraints. Maybe I misunderstood, can you elaborate on your problem?

Did you try using constraints in the Handling resource at source location A? This should resolve the problem of 6 shipments per day.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Srinivas -

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking it may work If all 3 of my T-lanes had the same transportation resource(attached to a Means of Transport).

I will look into the handling resources.

thanks a lot

Varun

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Srinivas -

I am still looking into Handling Resources option but just noticed that you are an ex-i2 SCP guy! so, I will do my best to explain it to you better.

So this is what I am trying to achieve in APO. Currently this is the i2 process

1) i2 Supply planner creates a plan.( SNP Heu)

2) i2 MDS creates the stock transfers( APO Deployment)

I can have at this point a constraint of 10 shipments in a table for source location A. If I do not set this, i2 SS would create 14 shipments.

3) run i2 Shipment Scheduler ( TLB). to get 10 shipments.

Thanks for your help!

Varun

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Srinivas -

Can you please help me understand how do we make an STO/TLB Shipment( or a T-lane?) of lets say a qty 50 pieces consume capacity on the handling resource( with lets say a capacity of 100 pieces per day) ? I did not find any documentation on handling resources and we are on 4.1.

The documentation just talks about Handling Units/Groups but also says SNP TLB does not consider handling units.

Thanks for your help

Varun

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy · Accepted solution]

Varun

I am not sure if you can handle resources in TLB. I am sorry if you got that impression from my earlier mail. I would rather handle the situation in SNP with handling resource or a common transportation resource (like you suggested). I would use a Fixed-Lot strategy for the Product Master which will have a shipment size equivalent. The max resource consumption of the handling/common transportation resource can be made 6 times the fixed lot you set at Product Master. Deployment and TLB can further work on resource-planned orders since they just decide when to move products and the latter just groups the products.

I will let you know if I can think of something better.

Srinivas

[srinivas_krishnamoorthy · Accepted solution]

If you are planning multiple products in a T-Lane, the solution I gave you may not work.

You may also try to use the SNP Lot Size profiles in a Transportation lane with minimum Lot size and the rounding values equal to a shipment equivalent.