Configuring Location Aliases for Third-Party Business (SAP Library

Configuring Location Aliases for Third-Party Business

Use

In cross-system third-party business, no plant can be returned to the sales system as a result of the availability check, since the plant belongs to the supplying system and does not exist in the sales system. For this reason, a location alias must be returned to the sales system.

Prerequisites

In the sales system, you must maintain the supplying system as a vendor under the location alias name.

Procedure

For cross-system third-party business you must use the enhancements APOAB004 and APOAT004.

In SAP APO, create an enhancement project and assign the enhancements APOAB004 and APOAT004 to this project. You can copy the example coding. In Customizing for Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) choose Global Available-to-Promise (Global ATP Check) ® Enhancements ® Set Location Alias and Check Existence of Location Alias.
Maintain a location alias in SAP APO. Choose transaction /SAPAPO/LOCALI.

Example: Location alias

Logical System	Location	Location alias	Location type
QIRCLNT200 (sales system)	QR0egxAIr16c}mW01YV7mm (location GUID for plant in supplying system)	QIR_201 (vendor number of the supplying system in the sales system)	1011 (vendor)

Note

You can find the GUID for the location in the table /SAPAPO/LOCMAP. In this example we are dealing with location PL2200@BSG.

Note, that the location alias must always be set as a vendor (location type 1011). Otherwise the vendor is not copied to the items of the sales order and the purchase requisition.