Hi Guys
I work on APO and I am not very familiar with R/3 functionality. For one of our businesses, we are in the early stages of doing some analysis which compares APO SNP and R/3 LTP+MPS/MRP.
I would really appreciate it if you can help me with a few questions.
Once Demand management comes up with a forecast at the DC level, assuming I have a bunch of DCs, how is the forecast at the DCs propagated to the manufacturing locations? Is it by running DRP?
Can you run MRP or MPS on the whole supply chain network (DCs and manufacturing) plants at once and can it create Preqs at Dcs? Or can this be done ONLY through DRP? If MRP and MPS is strictly for manufacturing locations, then what does multi-site MRP mean? Does it mean running MRP at multiple manufacturing locations?
Is DRP the only planning run which can be run on the supply chain network? Or is there any other functionality within LTP which basically can be run over the whole network to propagate the requirements by creating purchase requisitions at the DCs and planned orders at the manufacturing locations?
Thanks
Varun