Product allocation

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am working on SCM 4.0 APO system. My question is regarding product allocation. In R/3 there are confirmed orders for particular order for example 600. The allocation quantity is 500. When I check the plannig book for product allocation, total order quantity i.e. 600, does not appear in planning book.

I have checked the product allocation situation, it only shows incoming order quantity and not total order quantity.

If anyone has any idea why total order quantity does not appear in planning book?

Thanks

Regards

Jignesh

[Former Member]

Jignesh,

Planning book will always show what is confirmed out of Product Allocation i.e. 500. Which is mapped in to the incoming order quantity keyfigure in product allocation settings.

Check you settings you cannot have confirmed quantity more than your product allocation qty. in this case 600 vs 500 Product allocation.

Regards,

Harish

[Former Member]

Hi Harish,

Thanks for the advice. I know that confirmed quantity is tranferred and will be shown as a incoming order quantity in the planning book.

could you please advise me in this case how can i check the product allocation settings means why incoming order quantity is greater than allocation qty, as i dont have much exposure in product allocation.

Thanks

Regards

Jignesh

[Former Member]

Please check OSS notes as your SCM version is an old one.

We had a similar kind of issue in an older version of SCM where the Incoming Order Qty was greater than Allocation Qty which shouldnt be the case.

You will find some OSS notes on this, IMplement them and your issue should be solved.

During placing the sales order itself, there will be an online dialog made to the APO system from R3, you can check all your Product Allocation settings on that screen.

[Former Member]

Hi Jignesh,

I think the behaviour shown is correct.

You have allocated 500 quantities for particular bucket for certain CVC. Now incoming quantity can be greater or lesser than this. In your case its greater i.e. 600. Hence 500 will get confirmed in that bucket and remaining 100 will get confirmed in other buckets depending upon forward / backward consumption.

Regards,

Vaibhav

[Former Member]

Hi Kumar,

Thanks for the information. I have checked the OSS for this issue, but could not find any relevant one. If you have any known OSS for this problem, Please provide it to me.

Regards

Jignesh

[Former Member]

Jignesh,

You would have to read a lot in the OSS notes, probably go through each of the latest ones, the SEARCH section is really bad .

I did not gro through these notes, but take a look at them

488725

676128

613844

960279

488725

Also run OM17 Live Cache Check- Prod Alloc

Check your temporary quantity assignements and clear them out.

Regards

Kumar

[Former Member]

I have not experienced this with 5.0 and I am not sure with other versions. Like Vaibhav said it could be your consumption periods that would be showing your incoming order quantity greater than allocation qty.

If this is not the case then could be an OSS issue which i am not aware.

Harish

[Former Member]

Hi Kumar,

Thanks for the information regarding the OSS notes. I will have a look and see if it helps to get rid of this problem or not.

Regards

Jignesh

[Former Member]

Hi Harish,

I am afraid issue is still existing in product allocation.

Incoming order qty. is updated correctly in product allocation table i.e. /SAPAPO/AC42, it is not showing correctly in product allocation planning book.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Regards

Jignesh

[Former Member]

Jignesh,

Please give more details as to how you have configured Production Allocation consumption periods and more detailed example of the issue will help me advise.

Regards,

Harish

[Former Member]

Hi Jignesh,

I hope u have performed transactions "/SAPAPO/ATPQ_PAREA_W" - Transfer Data to Planning Area.

Regards,

Vaibhav

[Former Member]

Hi

Drill down and check the quantities in the planning book.

Regards

Stephen

[Former Member]

Hi Harish,

Product allocation has following characteristics;

HIEZU01 5 CustomerHierarchy01

KONOB 1 Prod.allocation obj.

MATNR 2 Product

ZDBUFC 4 Drive Site BUFC Group

There is no consumption for past periods and the backward and forward consumption is zero.

Product allocation is executed in three steps:

1) /SAPAPO/ATPQ_PAREA_W - Transfer Data to Planning Area

2) Manual change in the allocation qty. as per demand

3) /SAPAPO/ATPQ_PAREA_R - Copy Data from Planning Area

Also, one more thing I would like to add is allocation is changed quite frequently thru out the day.

Now, the total order qty and confirmed qty is sent to APO in product allocation planning book for further planning.

At the moment there are not much product in allocation so sales order qty is not in huge number. So I am able to figure out that total order qty and incoming order qty (confirmed qty) is appeared correctly in product allocation table in /SAPAPO/AC42. But in product allocation planning book only total order qty seems to be appeared correctly not incoming order qty.

I hope this will help to understand the scenario.

Thanks

Regards

Jignesh