Running the Deployment Heuristic
Use
After production planning is complete and the system knows what is actually to be produced (this information is stored automatically in liveCache), the deployment run generates deployment stock transfers.
Prerequisites
· You have maintained category groups in Customizing for Supply Network Planning (Maintain Category Groups). You then have to assign these category groups to a location in the location master data (the SNP tab page). (Default settings: ATD receipts—ATR, all categories that describe demand; ATD issues—ATI, all categories that describe supply.)
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Master Data Setup for Deployment
Heuristic
· You have maintained the relevant deployment heuristic profiles.
· You have run the SNP heuristic, SNP optimizer, supply and demand propagation, or Capable-to-Match (CTM)
Procedure
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¡ From the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Supply Network Planning → Planning → Supply Network Planning in the Background → Deployment. The Supply Network Planning: Deployment screen appears.
1. Enter the planning book and data view.
2. Enter an SNP planning profile that you defined in the Customizing. This contains basis settings for the SNP planning procedures. If you do not specify a profile, the system uses the default profile activated in the Customizing.
3. Enter a parallel processing profile that you defined in the Customizing for SNP. This determines how the background jobs are divided into parallel processes.
4. In the Deployment Horizon in Days field, enter the number of days you want the system to take into account during its deployment calculations.
5. Enter a selection profile in which you stored your selections in interactive Supply Network Planning or manually select planning data. When selecting this data manually, enter the planning version, location (or range of locations), and product (or range of products) that you want to plan.
6. In the Destination Locations field, you can limit deployment of supply to specific destination locations. You may wish to use this option if there are high priority destination locations, such as VMI customers. You should run deployment for important destination locations first.
7. Choose one of the following options to indicate how you wish the system to proceed with the SNP stock transfers after the deployment run:
¡ Select Do not change if you only want to run a simulation (so that no deployment stock transfers are created).
¡ Select Reduce if you want the system to create deployment stock transfers and reduce the SNP stock transfers accordingly.
¡ Select Delete if you want the system to create deployment stock transfers and delete all the SNP stock transfers from within the planning period, irrespective of whether or not they were able to be confirmed by the deployment run.
8. Set the Real-Time Deployment indicator, if you wish the system to take into account the current demand situation at the destination locations during the deployment heuristic run instead of the results from the last SNP run. Enter a Deployment Destinatn Location if you want the demand of only this destination location to be considered during real-time deployment.
For real-time deployment, you can specify that you want already existing deployment stock transfers to be deleted and replanned during this planning run. The following options are available:
¡ Select Replan All if you want the system to delete all deployment stock transfers that exist from the selected source location to the selected destination locations and to replan them on the basis of the current demand situation.
¡ Select Replan Non-Fixed if you want the system to delete all non-fixed deployment stock transfers that exist from the selected source location to the selected destination locations and replan them on the basis of the current demand situation.
¡ Select Do Not Delete if you do not want the system to delete any existing deployment stock transfers. The demand situation at the destination locations is used as a basis for creating new deployment stock transfers (taking into account the confirmed distribution receipt).
9. Make settings for the application log generated in the planning run. In the log availability field, enter the number of days you want the log to be saved for. The default value is 30 days.
You define whether the log contains detailed information, such as data for the deployment stock transfers created, and whether this is displayed directly at the end of the planning run. You can also display the log after the heuristic run by choosing Display Logs.
You can also specify whether you want a spool list to be generated as well as the application log, and whether you want this to be displayed automatically at the end of the planning run.
Set the No Message for Missing Destination Loc. indicator if you do not want the following message to appear: No destination locations found for material &1, location &2. This message is frequently displayed (particularly when multiple products are selected) if the system does not determine a destination location for a source location product during the deployment run.
10. Set the Do Not Use Alerts indicator if you do not wish to use the Alert Monitor and want to improve performance of the deployment run.
11. Choose Execute.
Result
After the deployment run, the system automatically converts SNP stock transfers into deployment stock transfers, which are used for transportation planning in the Transport Load Builder (TLB).
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