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Apr 14, 2010 at 09:07 AM

Requested delivery date in Sales order for internally produced products

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Dear All,

I'm searching for a solution for the following case:

Customer places a sales order for inhouse produced material, there is no stock for that product and no planned receipts, so ATP check does not confirm anything.

A sales person does not know when product can be produced since thats depended on components availability on stock or confirmed dates of future receipts of needed components.

So at the stage when a sales person inputs a sales order he should somehow calculate the requested delivery date.

He can create a production order (without saving it) for requested good and check components availability inside production order, and based on that figure out a valid date, but thats of course is not convenient at all.

He will need to go through all confirmed dates in ATP (in production order) and figure out the latest date when the latest component is available. Then he will get a start date for production order and as a result a date when requested product will be on stock.

All these activities which could be a workaround are not so convenient for sales persons.

I'm curious, is there any official SAP way how to calculate a day for above described case when product will be produced (like simulation of overall chain) and of course much better to have it in background...

Your ideas and suggestions are very much appreciated.

Best Regards,

Andrey