Maintaining Global Settings (SAP Library - SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO))

Maintaining Global Settings

Use

In this section you maintain the global settings for the availability check. This includes

Temporary quantity assignment (is valid for all basic methods): yes/no

Import Customizing data: allow/not allowed

See also:

We recommend that you transfer the Customizing data only once. If you transfer the Customizing data more than once, the existing settings could be overwritten.

We recommend that you carry out the availability check using temporary quantity assignments. When you work with an R/3 System you should have set the quantity lock in the R/3 System. This is necessary so that the ATP check can deliver consistent results. If this lock is active, the material is only locked at the time of the availability check when creating or changing a sales document. It is thereby possible that several users can process the same material at the same time within different operations without blocking each other. For unlocking, APO can only call from the unlock routines in the R/3 System. The quantity lock for the checking group in the R/3 System is a necessary prerequisite for the ATP check in APO bringing consistent results. If the quantity lock is not active in the R/3 System, then unlocking cannot occur in APO. In the R/3 System you set the quantity lock in Customizing for Sales and Distribution via Basic Functions ® Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements ® Availability Check ® Availability Check with ATP Logic or Against Planning ® Define checking groups.

Prerequisites

Ensure that the ATP time series’ in Model Management and Version Management are updated.

You can only set this indicator in the active model (000) and in an active version (000). You cannot change this setting subsequently. To reset this indicator you must delete the active version and recreate.

For further information see Creating model.

Procedure

In Customizing for the Advanced Planner and Optimizer select Global ATP ® General Settings ® Maintain Global Settings for Availability Check.

Set the Temporary qty asgmt indicator if you want to make it possible for several users to check the same planning object simultaneously and, nevertheless, obtain consistent results from the availability check.

Choose Import Customizing not allowed in the list field, if you want to prevent the Customizing data from being overwritten by the APO Core Interface Model imports.

Choose Save.