Consumption Strategies and Logic
Purpose
In the consumption process, the system compares planned independent requirement quantities and dates with actual customer requirements.
The consumption process is defined for every planning strategy in Customizing for Demand Management by the combination of a requirements type from Demand Management with a requirements type from sales order management.
This means that the requirements type entered when maintaining planned independent requirements is compared with the customer requirements type specified in Customizing.
Prerequisites
Process Flow
If no consumption periods have been maintained, you can only consume requirements which are planned on the same day.
The allocation of customer requirements to planned independent requirements is carried out dynamically. This means that if sales orders or planning is rescheduled, the allocation is deleted and redefined.