PDS validity in SNP

[Former Member]

Hello all,

we are implementing SNP for strategic planning at our customer using product data structure in SCM 5.0. We are facing the problem, that a validity of operations or whole PDS like in PP/DS is not transmitted to the APO system. ECM has obviously no effect on SNP.

So how to model a new product coming up in the mid of the year or an existing product can be produced on a second line from a certain point in time in the future.

Comments welcome

Regards Klaus

[nitin_thatte]

Hi Klaus,

If you are talking about a component being replaced by another in an assembly, you can use product interchangeability. You have to define interchangeability group specifying which product is outgoing one and which is incoming one, effective date etc.. When you take a heuristic run, system will automatically consider new product instead of old one for planning by transferring dependent demands from old product to new product.

As far as validity of PPM is concerned, the validity of PV gets transferred automatically to PPDS PPM and from there to SNP PPM.

Hope I am clear

Nitin Thatte

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

thank you for your reply.

In our case we don't have a replacement of a component but

the requirement to plan production in a plant or on a line beginning or ending at a certain time.

Example:

Because of upgrades of an assembly line, we want to plan a production starting from a certain point in time in the future.

That means, I need a PDS with a validity date to avoid that planned orders are created before the assembly line is able to produce this product.

SNP PDS are automatically transferrred from ERP including all necesarry data (costing, ..) so we don't want to maintain SNP PPMs for that case.

Regards Klaus

[nitin_thatte]

Hi Klaus,

What you need to do is create production versions with different validity dates. These will get automatically transferred to SNP PDS.

You have old prod version whose validity will get over on say Dec 31. You also have new production version whose validity will start on Jan 1 (Or slightly earlier if you want some overlap)

I am not getting exactly what is your problem.

Nitin Thatte

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

we already have production versions.

If we try to transfer production version with valid operations in the future, no operation is transmitted to a SNP PDS.

Rgds Klaus