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 Cross-Application Components Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Product Allocation Activate Product Allocation .

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 Cross-Application Components Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Product Availability Check Define Checking Groups , set Advanced ATP for the required checking group to Active.
In the Customizing activity Cross-Application Components Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Product Allocation Activate Product Allocation , set Activate to Yes.
In the Customizing activity Sales and Distribution Basic Function Availability Check and Transfer of Requirements Transfer of Requirements Define Requirements Classes , set checkbox PdA for the required requirement class.
In the Customizing activity Cross-Application Components Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) General Activities for Advanced Available-to-Promise (ATP) Category Types Define Procedure for each Schedule Line Category , set checkbox All. for the required schedule line categry.