SAP APO SNP Planning in background

[Former Member]

Hello All,

Need to understand the capacity levelling in SNP Heuristics background planning.

The general interactive process is as follows:

1. Run Heuristic to generate receipt (Planned Orders)

2. Do Capacity levelling

3. Do Deployment

If SNP planning is happening via background then how Capacity Levelling will take place because Deployment runs immediately after Heuristic run.

Regards,

Prabhat

[riyazahmed_ca2]

Hi Prabhat,

The sequence given by Abhishek is the right one. What do you expect by running the deployment earlier than capacity levelling? Capacity Levelling would help you plan your receipts to respect the capacity. Without constrained capacity, it is not a good suggestion to move ahead with the deployment.

Regards,

Riyaz

[Former Member]

Thanks Riyaz,

Actually the Heuristic and Deployment is running in background. I do capacity levelling manually.

After doing manual Capacity Leveling ,running real time deployment but not getting expected result so trying to analyse if my approach is correct.

Regards,

Prabhat

[former_member244427]

Hello,

Yes, you are correct SAP APO planning cycle is

DP-->SNP--> SNP capacity Leveling --> PP/DS-->Deployment

See link:Supply Network Planning Process

SNP heuristic, Capacity Leveling and Deployment are run using different functions programs in background.

/SAPAPO/SNP01 - Supply Network Planning in the Background

/SAPAPO/SNP05 - Capacity Leveling

/SAPAPO/SNP02 - Deployment

You need to check your background job setup and separate the Deployment and SNP heuristics.

Regards

Abhishek

[Former Member]

Thanks Abhishek - so you mean that if manual capacity leveling has to be done then need to stop the deployment job and once capacity leveling is done - start the deployment job.

Alternatively - can we do the capacity leveling after the job ( Heuristic+Deployment ) has completed and then do the real time deployment (multiple locations.)

Regards,

Prabhat