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May 08, 2008 at 08:28 AM

Monthly FC consumption in SNP

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Hello experts,

i'm new to this forum and pretty new to APO.

I need help to find a solution for a requirement expressed by our client.

The requirement is: (in SNP) S.O. must consume only forecast that lies in the s.o. request month. Even if the S.O. quantity is bigger than the monthly FC for that product/location(market), FC from the previous or successive month must not be consumed by s.o. that have a request date for "central" month.

As you know this is not possible to obtain using standard functionalities, because is not possible to specify "monthly" consumption horizons in the product master. And another problem should be that orders which are requested in past month but still not confirmed would appear on the "initial" column, therefore consuming FC from current month (this would be a big issue for the client).

The only solution that came to my mind is to modify the "Stock balance" macro, using a custom function copied by standard function:

DEMAND_CALC( ACT_PRODUCT ; ACT_LOCATION ; ACT_VERSION ;

or

BUCKET_EDATE(

Product master settings: backward and forward consumption = 32 days

Custom function must be able to understand that the consumption should stop at the 1st and the last day of the "S.O. request" month.

Do you think this is an applicable/feasible solution?

I was not able to find any other solution.

Opinions /suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Mauro