Consumption of PIRs

[Former Member]

I have created a Strategy in Demand Management. The strategy
is Z7 and it is copied from 50.

In this, I have created:

• Requirements type for planned independent
  requirements: ZZ7   (copied from VSE)
• Requirement type of the customer requirement: ZEV
  (copied from KEV)

In ZZ7 I have set a requirememnts class, in which there are:

• Planning indicator: 1- Net requirements planning,
  instead of 3.
• Consumption: 2-Consume planning w/o assembly

In ZEV,the requiremments class contains Allocation
indicator: 2-Consume planning w/o assembly.

With this setting, the system should consume Planned
Independent Requirements because in them PBIM-ZUVKZ = 2 and in sale order item VBBE-VPZUO
= 2, and consumption indicator in PIRs has
set  = 1.

This is accordant to note “1715491 - Planned independent
requirements consumption/reduction by sales order and delivery” where it says
that:

The 'Consumption indicator' of
the planned independent requirement (PBIM-ZUVKZ) should be the same with the
'Allocation indicator' of the customer requirements for sales order and its
deliveries (VBBE-VPZUO or VBBS-VPZUO) and provides the consumption (values '1',
'2' or '3') in order to consume the PIR.

Why my system does not work as note 1715491 says ?

[Caetano]

Hello

Planning strategy 50 and another planning without final assembly strategies were not designed to work on the net requirements segment. This kind of strategy should be planned on a separated stock segmenet and a special planned order type (VP) is generated on this stock segment to cover those PIRs.

Therefore, I don't think that a planning strategy similar to 50 will ever work on the net requirements segment.

The possible planning strategies are explained in detail on SAP Help. The underlying customizing is quite complex and strongly tied for the standard strategies. Therefore, SAP cannot support all possible individual customizing settings. Slight changes may work, but defining a complete new strategy which is not explained in the online documentation will lead to several unknown side effects and generally, it does not work.

Best regards

Caetano Almeida