Creating Location Determination Activities 

Use

In an activity, you maintain several actions to be taken if a location determination is carried out. This includes:

You can determine via the location determination activity if Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) is called in location determinations. It is the case that with settings that exist both in the location determination activity and in the check instructions (for example, calling PP/DS), the settings of the location determination activity are used by the availability check. You can therefore control further processes more precisely using the location determination activity. This also means that in a substitution group, for example, in which you only want to partially call Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling for location determinations, location determination activities of the type Availability check only, no production have to be maintained explicitly. For further information see Capable-To-Promise (CTP).

You can assign a business event to the location determination activity. In rules-based ATP you have the option to define, via the location determination, which check control and which scope of check should be used in the product availability check. You also influence the check instructions that are made up of the check mode and the business event.

If, through rules-based change, you influence the ATP check so that sales orders are confirmed, although they could not actually be confirmed, you generate overconfirmations in the system that you must cancel again using manual and automatic backorder processing. Otherwise, situations can occur in which you cannot deliver in spite of confirmation. If this should happen, you must configure the scope of check in delivery in such a way that no sales documents (offers, requests, sales orders, and so on) are taken into account.

A correction to the confirmations must be made then at the latest using backorder processing.

You can assign a check mode to the location determination activity. For the location determination you thereby determine which basic method or combination of basic methods should be used in the availability check.

Note the following:

Note that the check mode and the business event must be assigned to check instructions.

You maintain the check mode in Customizing for the Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) via Global ATP ® General Settings ® Maintain Check Mode.

Determining the vehicle as a location determination activity is relevant to transportation and shipment scheduling. This is only supported currently for third-party order processing.

The vehicle is the means of transport used for transportation between locations. You can assign a vehicle to the activity. For the location determination you thereby determine the vehicle that should be used to carry out the delivery from the location. The vehicle is relevant to scheduling in third-party order processing.

Scheduling is called. As a result a product availability date is returned and the ATP check is carried out. A new product availability date and a new delivery date can possibly result from this.

Procedure

  1. From the SAP Easy Access screen select Master Data ® Rule Maintenance ® Integrated Rule Maintenance ® Profiles and Parameters.
  2. In the Overview frame, choose (Location determination activity).
  3. Create an activity by defining a four-digit sort key and entering a description.
  4. Press Enter and select the required entries in the Details frame using F4 input help.
  5. Choose Save.
  6. Assign a location determination activity to the substitute location and ensure that the location determination procedure is assigned to a rule.

Results

You created a location determination activity.