AATP - BOP

[prasnop]

Hi Experts,

I have a business requirement - order which are confirmed by VA01 during creation can't be touch/remove the confirmation for such order by AATP-BOP run. Pls. let me know how we can fulfill this requirement.

Thanks,

[nipunr]

Hi,

You can use the tick "Fix date and Quantity" in sales order creation. So that, BOP skips the confirmation strategy.

Regards,

NipunR

[SatishWaghmare]

Hi Pras,

I like "Fixed date and Quantity" option better as long as one knows how it works. We had used this at one of the company, and it worked exactly how it is described above. It is a nice feature.

However I wanted to share this alternative with BOP GAIN Strategy. You can define BOP Segment specific to those orders and have those orders processed by using GAIN strategy. The BOP-GAIN strategy will touch those orders, but existing delivery date and confirmed qty will be retained or it will be further improved, when possible. It will make sure confirmation situation in terms of date and qty is not deteriorated, must be retained or improved when possible.

Hopefully this will help.

Thank you

Satish Waghmare

[Andreas_Krause1]

Hi Satish,

you are right, the GAIN is one option. However, there is one thing to confirmation strategy WIN and GAIN that should always be mentioned in addition. Both are raising a business exception that need to be handled by specifying a so called fallback variant. See also blog post on Confirmation Strategies.

With the new confirmation strategy IMPROVE you can basically achieve a similar behaviour like with GAIN but without a business exception being raised. One drawback: IMPROVE is not available in older S/4HANA releases. Please check help.sap.com to see more.

Regards,
Andreas

[SatishWaghmare]

Thanks Andreas. Good information on IMPROVE strategy. Great Blog...!

Just to add little more information -

Fall back option is available to handle order exceptions with GAIN strategy, but it is not mandatory to use. You can set the Exception Behavior as Stop Failed Material-Plant Combinations. It will skip that material / plant during BOP run and goes to the next one. Those material / plant with an exception are displayed under "Confirmed issues" tab in BOP Result. Ideally those confirmation issues should be reviewed by the order fulfillment team and they should take an appropriate action in timely manner otherwise you may see negative ATP Qty (confirmed qty > ATP qty)

Since the requirement is to ensure Schedule line delivery date and confirmed quantity remains unchanged(fixed). The GAIN strategy without FALLBACK option should be more suitable than with FALLBACK option. It ensures no change to delivery date and confirmed qty even though that order confirmation(commitment) cannot be retained (in case ATP Qty is reduced because of incoming supply is delayed or canceled or has reduced qty or inventory(stock on hand) adjustment was done).

If exceptions with GAIN strategy are handled by using FALLBACK option, then there is risk of either delivery date and/or confirmed qty being changed in the order. It is not the expected result based on requirement which is stated in original problem(requirement) statement.

Hope that makes sense.

Thank you,

Satish Waghmare

[KM_Nishanth1]

Hello Pras,

You could use the "Fixed date and Quantity" field at sales document item level to handle the behavior. If this field is set, BOP do not consider these items for the re-check and confirmations proposed during the creation of the order will be retained.

Regards,
Nishanth K M