Order Optimizing

Purpose

In Order Optimizing, the system combines the quantities in open purchase requisitions and purchase orders and rounds off the total quantity. This enables you to make best possible use of the transport capacity available.

Process Flow

In SAP Retail, the following activities usually occur in sequence during the night:

  1. Forecasts

  2. See LO – Sales and Operations Planning : Forecasts in SOP

  3. Planning run determining net requirements

  4. See Requirements Planning

  5. Investment Buying

  6. See Investment Buying

    The system uses the greater of the two quantities determined in steps 2 and 3.

  7. Automatic PO-based load building with quantity optimizing

  8. See Automatic Load Building

    See Quantity Optimizing

  9. Conversion of purchase requisitions to purchase orders with quantity optimizing

See MM - Purchasing Automatic Generation of Purchase Orders from Purchase Requisitions

See Quantity Optimizing

You then evaluate the results of automatic load building using a results list and if necessary build loads manually.

See List of Results of Automatic Load Building

See Manual Load Building

Results

The system generates the relevant purchase orders and adjusts the relevant documents.