'This is my behavior', says CTM

[gurucharanscm]

Just wanted to share the behavior of CTM – comments/corrections are welcome :wink:

I don’t want to explain more here – just would like to show to you in a simple manner. The only thing you need to know is – CTM goes deeper and deeper until it finds the required receipt element (say, stock) for negating the demand. If nothing found, it ends up creating a planned order at the plant (of course, based on your master data selection again).

Supply Chain:

CTM Behaviour:

But then, I think you cannot appreciate this behavior of CTM. For example, if there is enough stock to fulfill at R2, it still searches still PLANT1. The ideal/expected behavior would be:

search for R1, if not - go for R2.

If both R1 or R2 fail, go for WH1, and then to WH2 and so on...

Basically, the expectation is: let it search node by node, why go deeper into the node? Right! You can force the CTM to behave this way - all you need is to activate the below check-box.

But then, for this to work - you need to activate the corresponding business function which you can find at the below place in SPRO - by the way, activate it at your own risk - it is risky (you need to assess the impact before you do that - like how does it impact on the existing profiles).