Combining Plant,Storage Location & Product Substitution - aATP(ABC)

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The objective of this blog is to showcase how the different Advanced ATP (aATP) functionalities put together can make a difference in final-order confirmation scenarios. The SAP Standard functionalities can help us to achieve that objective.

ABC can be use in the consumer goods industry. They want to substitute location for plant & storage location combination with sequence and then want to use product substitution.

- Stocks are not in use at different plant and storage location levels so it lead to storage cost.
- If customers accept, they want to use the substitute products to fulfils the customer demand.- They want to increase on the order confirmation for key accounts.

Business Scenario 1: The business got an order 1000 PCS of material 336. They want to do confirm the order with their plant & storage location combination sequence.

Step No	aATP Functionally	Scenario Description	Material	Qty	Plant	Storage Location	Confirmed Qty
1	PAC	Available Qty in plant 8000	336	1800	8000
2	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 8000 and 8030 Storage location	336	300	8000	8030	300
3	ABC Plant Substitution	Available Qty in plant 1400	336	600	1400
4	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 1400 and 8030 Storage location	336	300	1400	8030	300
5	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 8000 and 8040  Storage location	336	300	8000	8040	300
6	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 1400 and 8040 Storage location	336	300	1400	8040	100

Proposed Solution: You can define a substitution strategy based on storage location, plant, and storage location in the following sequence. The system will then verify according to this defined order.

The first step is to define the substitution master data, starting with the initial storage location and replacing it with the main storage location. Following this, we can define the storage location substitution according to our requirements, using sequence numbers.

When executed availability check sales order;

Business Scenario 2: The business has received an order for 2,000 pieces of material 336. They intend to confirm the order using a specific sequence of plant and storage location combinations, followed by the execution of product substitution to ensure order fulfillment.

Step No	aATP Functionally	Scenario Description	Material	Qty	Plant	Storage Location	Confirmed Qty
1	PAC	Available Qty in plant 8000	336	1800	8000
2	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 8000 and 8030 Storage location	336	300	8000	8030	300
3	ABC Plant Substitution	Available Qty in plant 1400	336	600	1400
4	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 1400 and 8030 Storage location	336	300	1400	8030	300
5	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 8000 and 8040  Storage location	336	300	8000	8040	300
6	ABC Storage Location Substitution	Available Qty in plant 1400 and 8040 Storage location	336	300	1400	8040	100
7	ABC Product Substitution	Available Qty in 8000 plant and 8030 Storage Location	348	1000	8000	8030	1000

Proposed Solution: You can define a substitution strategy based on storage location, plant, storage location and product substiution in the following sequence. The system will then verify according to this defined order.

When executed availability check in the sales order;

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