Product interchangeability

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

I have question on using Product intechangeability for a particular scenario:

Manufactuirng plant produces 3 finished goods F1, F2 and F3 and ships to a customer (internal customer), but customer  identifies these 3 products as a single code say F1.

The manufacturing plant can decide basing on the capacity and product availability it can either ship one product (F1) for the entire quantity what customer is asking or it can ship combination of 2/3 products (F1, F2 or F3) to suffice cutomer requirement. But the customer would identify this as a single product which is F1.

My question is there a way we can use Product interchangeability to achieve this? Can anyone provide some guidance?

Thanks,

Murali

[b_valavan]

Murali -

In which application, this scenario is need to be used ? . I mean do you need to implement this

• When Planning ( Forecasting ) for F1 or
• Forecasting is already done for F1 and you need to cover the demand for F1 from all possible sources ? If so forecasting done only for F1 or for all three F1,F2, F3 ?

br,

Valavan

[Former Member]

Hi Valavan - How are you?

We would like to use this for SNP and not DP.

Forecasting is done at F1 at the internal customer (Market) and manufacturing plant can decide basing on the capacity and product availability it can either ship one product (F1) for the entire quantity what customer is asking or it can ship combination of 2/3 products (F1, F2 or F3) to suffice cutomer requirement. But the customer would identify this as a single product which is F1.

Thanks,

Murali

[b_valavan]

Murali -

Fine back to SDN after a long time....

I think for your scenario you can use the standard SNP planning book called 9ASNP_PS with data view PROD_SUBST to be able to take product interchangeability into account in Supply Network Planning. This planning book contains the required key figures Substitution Demand and Substitution Receipt, and an adapted macro (that takes these key figures into account) for calculating the stock balance. However, you can also create your own planning book based on this standard planning book.

For the Pre requisite and Configuration required refer

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/203c6bf9-da4a-2d10-dc85-f0d79ac9b...

Hope this helps

Br,

Valavan

[Former Member]

Hi Valavan - Thanks for the document. I tried all of those and with no luck.

Any other ideas on how this can be achieved?

Thanks,

Murali

[Former Member]

HI Murali,

I did work on a similar scenario recently and used the same document Valavan is referring to for help,was able to replicate the scenario.

could you elaborate on the issue faced..might be able to help

if you are not able to do substitution and have followed all the steps just check if you have put the substitution rule as released

put the substitution in release status to use it for planning ( in transaction /n/INCMD/UI )

Regards

Manas Malhotra

[Former Member]

Hi Manas - Thanks for the message. I did release the interchangeability group and it doesn't work for my scenario.

Just a small brief of our scenario:

Manufactuirng plant produces/packages 3 finished goods F1, F2 and F3 and ships to a Market (internal customer), but customer  identifies these 3 products as a single code say F1.

The manufacturing plant can decide basing on the capacity and product availability it can either ship one product (F1) for the entire quantity what customer is asking for it can ship combination of 2/3 products (F1, F2 or F3) to suffice cutomer requirement. But the customer would identify this as a single product which is F1.

These are the steps I followed:

• Supersession chain was created with full interchangeability with F1 <-> F2 at the manufacturing location. (Took two products to get my scenario working)
• Forecast is released from DP to SNP at the market/customer location for F1.
• SNP Heuristics was run for F1 at the Customer location so that the distribution demand is placed on  F1 at the manufacturing location. T-lane was maintained for this product.
• When I run heuristics for F1 at Manufacturing location it just generates SNP Planned orders and I don't see subsitution orders on F2. Why Distribution demand wasn't considered as a demand element? Is this standard behavior?

So it avoid that issue, I created forecast on F1 at manufacturing location and ran heuristics it did generate subsitution orders on F2. (we don't generate forecast on manufacturing location)

Now my question is, what happens when it goes to ECC system? How is this product shipped to the market location? Since the market location doesn't have F2 extended?

I would need help in getting the end to end scenario work. Would really appreciate if you can provide some guidance and steps around this scenario.

Thanks,

Murali

[former_member187488]

Hello Murali,

Please check whether FFF classes in interchangeability functionality fits your requirement. I think it will.

Online help: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/1d/0ee13dc2fd605ae10000000a11405a/content.htm

Best Regards,

Ada

[Former Member]

Hi Ada - Thanks for your message. Can you elaborate more on how to configure this?

Our scenarios could be multiple plants shipping with different Code numbers (F1 @ Mnfg plant 1, F2 @ Mnfg plant 2, F3 @ Mnfg plant 3), but customer identifies with a single code number which is F1 when they receive it.

It would be helpful if you can elaborate on how to use FFF for this scenario?

Thanks,

Murali