In IBP define same Location as DC and Plant

[pk1006]

In IBP is it possible to define a location as manufacturing plan and DC?

Thanks

PK

[pk1006]

Let say i have only one physical plant; half of building has production lines and other half is FG warehouse. In S/4 HANA it's just plant 1000.

Now in IBP's Supply Planning view on transportation tab, we have Location ID and Ship From Location ID. In above scenario Location ID same as Ship From Location ID i.e. 1000.

Also in location source master data, location is root so how can we enter same location number as source and destination;

May be i am missing a point here but this is very common business scenario.

thanks

pk

[piyush_parekh]

Hi,

A location in time series IBP can represent either DC, Plant or Vendor (except when LOCTYPE is maintained as "V"). Maintaining LOCTYPE as DC or PLANT doesn't hold any significance from planning algorithm standpoint. You need to define source of supply according to business scenario for e.g., manufacturing location getting material from another location and rest getting manufactured in-house. In this case, that location would have location source and production source header with source type P as 2 sources of supply.

Hope this helps!!

Regards,

Piyush

[pk1006]

and location 1000_0010 and T lane will be manually entered directly in IBP not exported via CPI-DS? Will there be any issue synchronizing S/4 and IBP?

Thanks

PK

[pk1006]

Ayan- we have only one storage location for finished goods. Do i need to create one more storage location?

[AyanBishnu]

If you have 1 storage location its fine. then assume that your plant in S4 is 1000 and Sloc is 0010. so 1000 will be the location for manufacturing and 1000_0010 will be the DC. you can create Tlane from 1000 to 1000_0010.

[AyanBishnu]

Use the plant and storage location to create MRP areas and use the MRP areas as location in IBP.

for example PLANT 1 has 0010 and 0020 as storage location. then you MRP area will be PLANT1_0010 and PLANT1_0020. transfer them as location in IBP

[pk1006]

How about we duplicate same location (only in IBP and not in synch with s/4) and change the location type? Also in location source MD, from and to both are same location. this way when dependent demand(production) will be generated without any lead time? No TL time as well. Haven't tested it but root attribute i.e. location might throw wrench into it and may not work. Your thoughts?

[pk1006]

by default plant is mrp area but when we define sloc as mrp area then that might affect production planning in s/4?

[pk1006]

Thanks for your response. Here is the business case:

we have a plant which is a manufacturing plant(Let's say plant- A). It's a shipping point for both DC and Customer. In S/4 you can assign only either assign DC or Plant node type to one physical plant, hence Plant-A can be either DC or Mfg location not both.

So how to we define Plant-A, a location that is primarily a manufacturing location but also behave as DC for external customer. We don't want to create logical(dummy) plant in S/4.

Thanks

PK

[pk1006]

In you response case 1 seems more aligned with what i am looking for. What do i need to do in MDT- location, location source, tlane etc. ?

Location being a root attribute in location source/location and other MDT not sure same location will be accepted as plant and DC how's that affect processes and other dependent master data type?

[manikandan_shanmugam3]

Hi Pradeep,

Could you please share us the business case so that it will be easy to suggest something based on experience.

case 1: Some business have a separate storage for quality inspection and delivery storage from where FGs are dispatched to DCs or direct customer, Quality inspection would be completed on same production period and FG are moved to delivery storage on same periods as production. if this is the case, you can use same plant as plant as well as DC and FGs will be available as Stock on hand at end of the same production period.

Case 2: Some business have a separate storage for quality inspection and delivery to DCs or direct customer, where quality inspection takes Production+1 period and FGs will be available at delivery storage point Production+2 periods, in this case , it will make sense to separate plant as Plant and DCs i.e. ABCPLANT & ABCPLANT_DC.it will help to calculate FG availability precisely.

There might be other case as well. Depending on business case decision should be taken and model location accordingly.

Regards,

Manikandan