Finish product planning based on raw material delivery schedule

[Former Member]

HI all,
I would like your advice to deal with the following process:
- I have a raw material that is delivered on a regular basis. Example: each first Monday of the month, raw material M is delivered by vendor V.
- These raw material need to be used the same week to product 1000 pieces of finish product F for customer C.
- The deliveries are regular and mapped with delivery calendars.

How to be sure that production planning consider that delivery calendar to propose planned order for Finished product F ?
I thank about the following way but I'm not sure that it's the good one : Material Master of F . MRP 1 Time phased + planning cycle but I'm not sure that it's the appropriate way as the first Monday of the month is not exactly every 30 days.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Regards,
Morgan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Morgan,

We can consider delivery type for planning or we can remove it from planning as well.

But what I donot uinderstand is why you need plan order and when excatly do you need to trigger the plan order

Can you please explain in detail the whole business process.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi;

the process is : each time Raw material delivery is scheduled, I would like system to propose production orders for the finish product. So I need proposed order for finish product to depend on raw material delivery schedule

Thanks for your help

regards

Morgan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Morgan

You may wish to evaluate using the options like

• Availability check functions
• Create Planned orders in advance
• Daily batch jobs to convert planned orders & release production orders...

• OPJJ - Availability check control --> Set up rule Include Purchase orders & Replenishment lead time (if needed)
• OPJK - Order control --> During Order creation --> collective conversion indicator '3' No creation if material is missing.

• Create Planned orders in advance --> Run a daily batch job to pick and convert the planned orders
  • Now, If the systems can find the materials available (in reference to the Availability check criteria we set up), it can create a Production order
  • Else, the planned order remains as such.

• Alternatively, You can set up two different checking rules and assign them each for Order creation and Release
  • Thus, we can let the order creation if certain checks are met, and only release if stricter checks (say only available stocks) are passed!

Regards,

Senthil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Senthil,

thank you for your answer.
If I understand correctly, your solution help me by providing a way to check if the raw material is available (ie delivery has been done) prior to converting the planned orders in production orders.

But priori to this availability check on raw material, how do I set up the system to generate the planned order of the appropriate quanity based on the delivery schedule ?

ie : how do I catch the "created planned orders in advance " step ?

Thanks a lot

Regards

Morgan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Morgan,

Thanks for the feedback.

The idea is to bring down the dependency on the planner's vigilance, and automate the process.

We can load the PIR (through MD61) for the finished product with the tentative requirement dates (say beginning of every month)

--> Run MRP

--> System will generate the Planned orders

--> Then the batch jobs for Planned order conversion and Production order release take over.

Regards,

Senthil

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thank you Senthil for these quick and precise answer.
Maybe I can also use a specific program to mass generate these independant requirement from scheduling agreement That would be :

- run specific programm that use scheduled delivery quantities to generate PIR

- run MRP to generate planned orders from PIR requirements

- run planned orders conversion with availability check to get production orders

I will propose my Key User with this flow, make prototype and let you know if it match all points.

Do I understand well if I say that it is a pushed flow ie exactly the opposite of what why usually do ?

Once again : thank you very much for your help !

Regards

Morgan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Senthil,

I'm really sorry but there was a mistake in the way I understood requirement.
The flow does not start with the component delivery, it was just an example my key user provided me to exaplain the way it works in MM and compare with what he expect in PP

The real need is : I want to determine a calendar of production orders (ex : 1000 units of prod 1 must be created each first monday of month) and I want the work center/production line to be dedicated to that production : (systeme do not plan order for an other material the first monday of month, it is dedicated to my prod order).

I created an other threat for that need : http://scn.sap.com/thread/3205832

Thanks again

Morgan