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ATP check in multiple sites

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I have two sites where it is possible to contain inventory. I would like the ATP check to Site A first and if not stock is found then check Site B. I thought setting the priority on the lanes would accomplish this but appears to only tell which lane to perform the intial ATP check. Is there anyway to accomplish this? Or does the user have to manually check the other site for stock?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Ed

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Hi Ed,

No, there is no way, one workaround if you maintain Site A is priority 1, and Site A has zero stock, then ATP will always be red. Then you could click "assign source of supply" to manually select site B to perform ATP check.

Regards,

Tracy

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Thanks for your answer Tracy. That was what I experienced as well just trying to save my client effort - Unfortunately ByD is very lacking in managing ATP when you have multiple sites - it is all very manual. very frustrating for the client.

Thanks for you time to answer my question.

Ed

Former Member
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Hello Tracy,

What factors determine whether Site A is maintained as priority 1?

Thanks,

Kat

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anand_dethg
Employee
Employee
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Dear Ed,

When you enter the quantity for a product in the sales order, the system first

  1. Identifies the site to which the product needs to be shipped from
  2. Performs ATP check on the from the site identified.

This is how we can broadly breakdown how the ATP is check works. So the identification of the location from which the product needs to be shipped does not depend on the stock of the product in the site. This is a new functionality which you are looking for here where the system should go back and try to identify another alternate ship from source if there is no stock in the first identified ship from site (Global ATP).

You can additionally request for this feature in the customer influence forum. There is already an idea which is similar to your request but not exact. The idea talks about system changing the source of supply based on the item type. You can request the requester to modify the idea with your requirement as well. You can find the idea following the link here.

If you have any additional queries do get back to me.

Regards,

Anand

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Thank you Anand for your time to answer. I will add my comment to the forum . Your key comment of the identification of the location from which the product needs to be shipped does not depend on the stock of the product in the site pretty much causes lots of manual effort for any client managing multi site ATP.

Another requirement for them is they do not ship to customers out of Site B thus just want to do a STO from Site B to Site A in order to meet that requirement. The issue becomes that even if you set up Internal planning for Site B to generate a STO via planning the STO does not take into account the amount of actual stock in Site B. It just plans what is needed by demand regardless of the supply in Site B. So what is happening is the client thinks they have taken care of the issue by issuing a STO but in reality they still don't have enough stock to fill the order. Sorry to be so negative just very frustrating for the client to manage.


One other question: When setting the Source of Supply Rule on the product my expectation was that it would try to fill from the internal source to generate the STO if the supply was available otherwise would find the price list and generate a purchase proposal. However, it is always generating a STO regardless of the available supply in internal site. To get a purchase proposal generated I have to manually change the source of supply in the product planning view.


Thanks again for your time to answer - much appreciated.

Ed


babu_kilari4
Active Contributor
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Hello edgovett,

I am not sure if I understood the question fully. But, did you consider looking at the location consolidation solution. So, if your sales order has determined location A and if there is no stock available; it can trigger an STO from location B to location A and confirm the order on location A. It involves some settings, but achievable.

Also, in the original question - you are asking for location determination based on ATP. Wouldn't the location substitution be a choice here ?

Let me know. Cheers !

Babu Kilari

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HI Babu,

Thanks for your comment. It is not a case about finding the site is all about available stock. After further testing the issue becomes the Source of Supply Priority Rule does not take into account stock at the sender Site. So for instance if you have a material set up with Source of Supply Rule and you this scenario:

1. You have no stock in your standard site but have a another site set up as Internal Procurement. If the quantity of stock is available at that site then generate a STO.

2. If no stock is available then generate the Purchase Proposal.

Unfortunately it does not work that way. If you have the scenario set as above and and Run Planning it generates a STO regardless of whether the Internal Procurement site has stock or not.

Thx,

Ed