Product Interchangeability in
Deployment
Use
The deployment heuristic and the deployment optimizer take into account SNP product substitution orders that were created during heuristic-based or optimization-based planning in Supply Network Planning (SNP). In this way, you can continue to perform the product interchangeability that you planned in the SNP planning run in deployment too.
Prerequisites
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You have
executed an SNP heuristic run or optimization run during which SNP product
substitution orders were created. For more information, see
Product
Interchangeability in Supply Network Planning.
● The prerequisites described under Product Interchangeability in Supply Network Planning are also valid for product interchangeability in deployment. This includes defining product substitution data in the master data for product interchangeability.
You can define the interchangeability rules for the deployment heuristic at both the source location and the destination location. Since the deployment optimizer creates a distribution plan for all selected products in all selected locations in the supply chain model, you must define the rules for the deployment optimizer at each location that is relevant to product interchangeability.
As is the case for the SNP optimizer, you must have set the Supersession Chain and Form-Fit-Function Class indicators for the deployment optimizer on the General Constraints tab page in the deployment optimizer profile.
● You have defined the fair share rule A (Proportional Distribution Based on Demands) or one of the push rules, Pull, Pull/Push, or Push by Demands as the distribution rules for the deployment heuristic in the product master data. The other distribution rules are not supported.
Features
● Deployment confirms the SNP product substitution orders and creates deployment orders or SNP product substitution orders in the destination location. Deployment creates deployment stock transfers for the products that replace the discontinued products.
● The system deletes or reduces the corresponding SNP product substitution orders and stock transfers.
Activities
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1. You perform a deployment heuristic run or a deployment optimization run. You use the standard planning book 9ASNP_PS with data view PROD_SUBST or your own planning book that you based on the standard planning book. You also set the Add Products from Supersession Chainsindicator.
2. The system takes into account the product substitution data that has been defined for product interchangeability in the master data and creates, alongside the deployment stock transfers, deployment product substitution orders in the Substitution Demand (Confirmed) and Substitution Receipt (Confirmed) key figures, if required.
3. You display the results in interactive Supply Network Planning.
Example
The following figure shows the result of a deployment heuristic run that was performed on the basis of an SNP heuristic run while taking into account the product interchangeability data:
In the example, it is assumed that product A can be fully interchanged with product B (A<->B). There is a demand for 100 pieces of product A at the distribution center. There is a stock of 60 pieces of product A and 40 pieces of product B at the plant. Since the stock of 60 pieces of A at the plant cannot cover the entire demand for A at the distribution center, the demand is partially covered by the stock of B. The system proceeds as follows when planning:
● SNP Heuristic (Destination Location):
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○ The system creates a substitution receipt (in other words, an SNP product substitution order) for A (from B) for 100 pieces.
○ The system creates an SNP stock transfer for B for 100 pieces.
● SNP Heuristic (Source Location):
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○ The system creates a substitution receipt for B (from A) for 60 pieces.
● Deployment Heuristic:
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○ The system creates a deployment stock transfer for A for 60 pieces as well as a deployment stock transfer for B for 40 pieces.
○ The system creates an SNP product substitution order at the destination location for A for 60 pieces (from B).
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