Demands creating in Demand Planning need to be transferred to Supply Network Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) to enable suitable receipt elements to be created or assigned to cover these demands. To transfer the demand plan to PP/DS, you release the demand plan to Supply Network Planning. During this process, demands outside the defined production horizon are transferred to Supply Network Planning, whereas demands within the production horizon are transferred to PP/DS. The demands are therefore transferred to either medium-term planning or short-term planning horizons.

2. The system copies the demands from the DP version to the specified SNP version and saves them as SNP orders in the liveCache if the demands are outside the production horizon. It saves them as PP/DS orders in the liveCache if the demands are within the production horizon.
3. If you have defined that the products are to be planned automatically on the PP/DS screen of the product master, the system automatically assigns existing receipt elements to the demands in PP/DS. If no suitable receipt elements are available, the system automatically creates a receipt element to cover the demands. If you have defined manual planning for the product, you will receive an alert to inform you of a product shortage. You then create a receipt for the product manually.