Automatic Planning (SAP Library - Automated Production Planning and Optimization)

Automatic Planning

Use

There are two types of automatic planning in Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling: Automatic planning immediately and Automatic planning in a planning run.

You use automatic planning immediately for multi-level planning of products that use lot-for-lot order quantity or fixed lot-sizing procedures.

You use automatic planning in the planning run to plan products using other lot-sizing procedures that are available as heuristics, such as period lot-sizing or purchase order optimization heuristics.

You can define how the product is to be planned on the PP/DS tab of the product master. Both types of automatic planning are triggered when:

New requirements are transferred to PP/DS
Requirements are changed
Stocks are moved
Product master data is changed
The production process model (PPM) is changed
Other changes relevant to planning occur

Integration

The orders created during automatic planning are immediately transferred to the connected OLTP system so that up-to-date planning data is available in both systems.

Prerequisites

You have set either the Automatic planning immediately indicator or the Automatic planning in the planning run indicator in the product master (PP/DS tab) for the product. If you wish to check the availability of components of the product, you must also set the Automatic planning immediately indicator.

Features

Automatic Planning Immediately

Products are planned immediately when automatic planning is triggered. The system performs an availability check for a product and its components. If a product is not available, it automatically creates suitable receipt elements while taking resource capacity into account. The system selects the procurement alternative according to priority and costs that can fulfil the order on the requested date. For more information, see Automatic Planning Immediately.

Automatic Planning in the Planning Run

When changes relevant to planning occur, a planning file entry is created. These products are then planned during the next net change production planning run using the heuristic defined for the product in the product master or, if you have not defined a heuristic here, the default heuristic from the global settings in Customizing is used. A variety of heuristics are available for Production Planning that can be used to plan products. For more information, see Automatic Planning in a Planning Run

For more information on the production planning run, see Production Planning Run.