Limiting Order Proposals

[Former Member]

We have a business scenario where we will only intend to produce over a period of time a particular quantity that are customer has committed to buy. There may be multiple process orders over the course of weeks or months to make this quantity. Materials are procured by vendors based on that quantity, and not tracked in SAP.

However there are circumstances where forecast or sales orders may exceed this committed quantity, and planned orders generated by the MPS run can then exceed committed quantities.

There is a need for this to be flagged for the planner for followup to either reduce the demand or to expedite additional materials with the vendors.

Is there any way for the system to keep track of historical and planned production and to generate an exception message if order proposals exceed committed quantity, prevent MPS from creating planned order proposals beyond committed quantity, or to prevent conversion of planned orders to process orders when they would cause the committed quantity to be exceeded?

[madlercm]

Hi,

It looks as if you are doing material allocations per customer.

There's a specific functionality for this, check it up.

After you have defined the allocations, you then can use the atp logic against these allocations.

This will lead close to what you are looking for, since if a customer has used all of its allocation the system will not commit any further, even if there is stock available.

Hope this helps a bit; I know that there's some work to do to make this work.

Regards,

Mario