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After production is complete, deployment determines which demands can be fulfilled by the existing supply. If there are insufficient quantities available to fulfill the demand or the quantities available exceed the demand, deployment makes adjustments to the plan created by the SNP run.

The deployment run generates deployment stock transfers based on the SNP stock transfers that were created during the SNP run. The Transport Load Builder (TLB) then uses these deployment stock transfers to create transport loads, thus generating TLB shipments.

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You can run deployment from the interactive planning table in Supply Network Planning (on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   Supply Network Planning   Planning   Interactive Supply Network Planning  ), or as a background job (on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose   Supply Network Planning   Planning   Supply Network Planning in the Background   Deployment   or Deployment Optimization).

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Prerequisites

You cannot use deployment for stock transfers involving storage location MRP areas. For more information, see Stock Transfer with Storage Location MRP Areas.

Features

Deployment Heuristic

The deployment heuristic creates a distribution plan for one product at one location. If the available quantities are insufficient to fulfill the demand, the system uses fair share rules to determine the distribution plan. However, if there is more supply than is necessary to meet demands, the system uses push rules to determine the distribution plan. You define fair share and push rules in the SNP deployment profile. For more information, see Deployment Heuristic.

Real-Time Deployment

This variant of the deployment heuristic is used to execute deployment based on the most recent results from the SNP run. Here, the system considers the current demand situation at the destination locations by first executing an SNP run between the source location and its associated destination locations before the actual deployment run.

When using fair share rule B (see Deployment Profiles), it is particularly important that distribution is based on the most exact calculation of target and planned stock levels possible.

Deployment Optimization

The deployment optimizer creates a distribution plan for all the products you chose in all the chosen locations of the supply chain model. In the main, the deployment optimizer bases its decisions on all the costs defined in the supply chain model (such as transportation and storage costs), as does the SNP optimizer. It also takes into account the following factors:

  • Fair share rules and push rules

  • Constraints such as transportation capacity, storage capacity, and transportation lot sizes.

You make most of the deployment optimization settings in the SNP deployment optimizer profile (see Deployment Optimizer Profiles). For more information, see Deployment Optimization.