Customizing for Product Allocation

Use

Before you can use product allocation to run an availability check for a sales order in Advanced Available-to-Promise, you are required to activate product allocation in Customizing in the activity Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Next navigation step Product Allocation Next navigation step Activate Product Allocation End of the navigation path.

Before activating product allocation, note that:
  • The availability check against product allocation is activated per client in your system.

  • Product allocation is only available for sales order documents and can only used if the Advanced ATP functions are active.

  • If you activate the product allocation function, no existing allocation data or sales order confirmations are transferred automatically.

  • After activation, every availability check will be executed with product allocation in Advanced Available-to-Promise. If you activate the product allocation function in Advanced ATP, you cannot revert to the previously used product allocation function in Sales and Distribution.

The following Customizing settings must be configured before you can run an availability check against product allocation for a sales order:
  • In the Customizing activity Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Next navigation step Product Availability Check Next navigation step Define Checking Groups End of the navigation path, set Advanced ATP for the required checking group to Active.

  • In the Customizing activity Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Next navigation step Product Allocation Next navigation step Activate Product Allocation End of the navigation path, set Activate to Yes.

  • In the Customizing activity Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Basic Function Next navigation step Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements Next navigation step Transfer of Requirements Next navigation step Define Requirements Classes End of the navigation path, set checkbox PdA for the required requirement class.

  • In the Customizing activity Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Next navigation step General Activities for Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Next navigation step Category Types Next navigation step Define Procedure for each Schedule Line Category End of the navigation path, set checkbox All. for the required schedule line categry.