APO DP demand planning and master planning

[JasonXu]

Dear Expert,

We have 3 company code and 4plant code, company 1003 is a distribute center and have two plant code D003, D004, and supply good to company 1001 and company 1002, now we want plant D003 supply plant D001 under company 1001, and D004 supply plant D002 under company 1002, and both plant D003 and D004 purchasing good from external vendors.

Currently process is that D003 purchase Goods from external vendors, then manually create STO to transfer stock from D003 to D004. we use the APO DP and PPDS, we upload FC into IMPACT DP at company 1001 and company 1002, then all the demand will transfer to D003, after planning run system only generate external PR in plant D003, we have to manually calculate how many D004 needs and create STO to transfer stock from D003. if we want to transfer the DP from 1001 to D003 and DP from 1002 to D004, and system generate PR for both of them. how can we do to realize this? I already tried to create a new CVC for them and update special procurement key, but it did not work, could you pls. share us your professional ideas and suggestions？ many thanks in advance!

but the way, if we only upload FC into IMOACT DP at company 1003, how can we realize above requirement? thanks!

Wish you all the best and heathy.

[thomas_schulze2]

Hello Jason,

If I understand your current (and wanted) supply chain and demand flow correctly - you want to achieve that D004 gets properly planned instead of needing to manually stock transfer the goods from D003 to D004 after D003 has purchased everything from the external vendors.

In your case the question is how is the demand ending up in D003 (instead of D001 --> D003 and D002 --> D004). I would use SNP Supply planning for this: Upload your demand (Forecast) to D001 and D002 (APO-DP), release the fcst to SNP and run a network heurstics You have to setup transportation lanes:

• TLane1: Source=D003 Target D001
• TLane2: Source=D004 Target D002

How are you using APO-DP to get the demand from D001 and D002 into D003 as a "source" ?

Regards

Thomas