Question – How to re-plan on selected product locations.

[former_member654033]

We are implementing supply planning and we have 9 manufacturing plants and 20 DCs (There is NO multi-sourcing and 1 product is produced only at one plant). We are running Heuristics which provides us unconstrained supply plan, and then we use adjusted production key figures to make the supply plan feasible and balance the resource capacity load.

Now we have some questions to support this process.

1. How we can take supply planning run separately for each manufacturing plants. (As timing of their planning cycle can differ from each other), can we use Planning Unit concept or is there any other better way to manage this
2. Once the Supply planning run is completed, users will review the capacity load and will level the load by using “adjusted production” key figure, Then they would like to re-plan this product so adjusted production KF can overwrite the “Production Receipt” key figure and provide a feasible plan, but ideally the re-planning should be restricted only to selected products where adjustment has been made and there is no need to re-plan all the products again. How we do achieve this? Can we use planning Unit again but in that case there will be too many planning units if we create one for each product. Is there any better way to manage re-planning part.
3. Supply planner needs to take supply planning run on their own, but we don’t want them to trigger the supply planning run for another plant which is managed by a different supply planner so how we can restrict supply planner role to take supply planning run only for their plants.
4. How do we reset the adjustment key figures, when we move to the next planning cycle and would like to start planning afresh.

Thanks
Girish

[Former Member]

Hi Girish,

I think question 1 and 3 can be resolved by using planning units. If you want a planner to restrict planning only for certain plants, you can assign associated planning units to their role.

For question 2, re-planning can be done for all the plants irrespective of where adjustment have been made and where not. The system will consider adjusted values and will generate new receipts while for the plants where no adjustment has been made, the earlier plan will remain as it is.

The requirement mentioned in question 4 can be achieved by using parameter RESET_ADJUSTED_KEY_FIGURES with parameter value YES.

Thanks,

Rohit

[former_member654033]

Thanks Rohit, your information is very useful. One more questions here with deleting old receipts (regular output KFs like transport receipt, production receipts etc).

So once months rolls forward, how to delete the receipt /Supply key figures (System generated ones) that goes in the past (For example anything in July will go in past once August Starts). as once we replan in august it will only replan August onwards.

Thanks

Girish

[Former Member]

Hi Girish,

Unless you don't have any customer demand in past(which ideally should not be) and your planning horizon covers past period, the supply run will overwrite the existing receipts with zero/null values.

However the In transit receipts/supply would still be there(if any).

Thanks,

Rohit

[Former Member]

Hi Girish,

Why would you want to delete receipts in the past? It will help you to compare plan vs. actuals.

Just trying to understand the business case.

Regards,

Aditya G

[former_member654033]

Hi Aditya,

Two points here

- We are not measuring any Production receipt Vs Actual in SOP HANA

- If we have any receipts in past, it may create wrong calculation for projected inventory KF

We basically wanted to have all the calculation should happen from present bucket and should not count any thing which may appear in the past.

Thanks

Girish

[Former Member]

Hi Girish,

Did your past receipts got deleted automatically after month rolled forward or you had to take fresh supply run to delete it? I assume your demand in July is still there but heuristics does not plan anything in past.

Please let me know.

Thanks,

Rohit

[former_member654033]

Hi Rohit,

It is not deleted automatically when the month rolls forward, even if we take the fresh supply planning run it replans from curent bucket onwards and don't touch anything in the past.(Demand in the past exists or doesn't exist it doesn't matter as old receipt exists as it is after taking supply planning run)

There is a parameter suggested by Pramod, will try if this helps in this case.(INITIALIZE_LEADTIME_HORIZON<> YES”)

Thanks

Girish

[former_member654033]

Hi Rohit,

This parameter (INITIALIZE_LEADTIME_HORIZON<> YES”) didn't help.

Thanks

Girish