Consideration of Demands in the Source Location 

Use

If you execute a deployment heuristic in Supply Network Planning (SNP), the system only considers the distribution demand at the destination locations by default. The system does not consider the demand at the source location, that is, the customer demand and planned independent demand (forecasts). You can, however, specify that the system reserve part of the available quantity (available-to-deploy quantity, ATD quantity) to cover the customer demand and/or the planned independent demand at the source location.

This function is only available if you execute the deployment heuristic in the real-time deployment mode.

Features

There are two possibilities for considering the demand at the source location:

·        Coverage of the demand at the source location is preferred

·        Coverage of the demand at the source location and destination locations with fair share distribution

Coverage of the Demand at the Source Location Is Preferred

If you want the demand at the source location to have a higher priority for the system than the distribution demand, include the order categories for the customer demand and/or planned independent demand in the category group with which the system calculates the ATD quantity (issue category group ATI). You specify the category groups in Customizing for SNP under Basic Settings → Maintain Category Groups.

In this case, the system uses the ATD quantity to cover this demand first and only after that does it cover the distribution demand at the destination locations.

Fair Share Distribution for Covering the Demand

You can specify that the system carry out a fair share distribution of the ATD quantity to cover both the demand at the source location as well as the distribution demand at the destination locations. To do so, you first enter in the master data of the source location product (SNP2 tab page), whether you want the system to consider the customer demand and/or planned independent demand. The system carries out the fair share distribution using the fair share rule you have also defined in the master data of the source location product. The only appropriate rules are A and B, that is, the distribution on percentage basis according to the demand and the target achievement on percentage basis.

In order for the system to be able to carry out a fair share distribution of the demand, you must execute deployment in the real-time deployment mode. In addition, you must use the special planning area 9AVMI03 and the planning book 9ADRP_FSS that contain the key figure Deployment Reservation Quantity (or use a planning area you have defined and a planning book with this key figure). In this key figure, the system saves the quantity that it reserves for the demand at the source location.

Note that the system does not create any orders for the demand at the source location, but rather saves the reserved quantity as information in a time series key figure. The system does not support the integration of the deployment reservation quantities in the ERP system or other systems.

In the active version, you can only use this function if the system does not transfer deployment stock transfers to the ERP system or transfers them as purchase requisitions to the ERP system.

In addition, make sure that you run real-time deployment with the Replan All option, since the system has to replan all the deployment stock transfers.

After you have executed the deployment run, you can display the reserved quantities in interactive SNP planning or in the deployment application log.

Example

The following table shows how the system uses the ATD quantity to cover the demand at the source location and/or destination locations, depending on the settings you have made:

Deployment Mode	No Coverage of the Demand at the Source Location	Coverage of the Demand at the Source Location Is Preferred	Fair Share Distribution Across the Demand at Source and Destination Locations
ATD quantity	100	100	100
Planned distribution demand	100	100	100
Planned distribution demand at source location	100	100	100
Confirmed distribution demand	100	0	50
Deployment reservation quantity for demand at source location	0	100	50