Function documentationOEM-Managed Inventory

 

As the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and owner of service parts planning (SPP), you can plan the stock of selected customers and dealers. In this way, you can support these customers and dealers in optimizing their procurement planning and stock situation. Furthermore, these customers and dealers no longer need to order from you actively; as the OEM, you trigger the transfer of stock to a customer location.

If you decide to plan specific products for selected customers or dealers, you create these customers or dealers as customer locations (that is, locations of type 1010) in the location master data of SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) and include these locations in your bill of distribution. In the location product master data, you indicate the products for these locations that you want to plan as relevant for OEM-managed inventory.

The customer or dealer selected provides you with demand data and stock information from his or her (external) system using a business-to-business message interface. You can then create the demand history for your customers or dealers on the basis of this data and execute service parts planning.

You can display the planning results for your customers or dealers along with other planning results for your own location products. This means that you can, for example, display the forecasting results on the Interactive Forecasting screen and the distribution requirements planning (DRP) results on the DRP Matrix and External Procurement — Delivery Schedule Maintenance screens. The customer or dealer is provided with a worklist in the form of a Web user interface so that you do not have to allow them access to your internal planning views. Your customer or dealer can use this worklist to display specific planning results and execute specific actions. In this way, he or she can, for example, agree to or reject changed stocking and destocking decisions and approve or change replenishment orders (depending on the settings). For more information about this worklist, see Worklists for Service Parts Planning and Queries in the Customer's Worklist.

Note Note

Your supplier never delivers directly to the customer or dealer that you include in the OEM-managed inventory process. This means that if you plan the stock for a customer or dealer, you cannot use third-party order processes or push deployment from the supplier for these customers or dealers. Furthermore, a customer location or dealer location of type 1010 can never be the entry location of your BOD.

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Features

BOD with Customer or Dealer Locations

If you intend to plan stock for specific customers or dealers, you can include their locations (customer locations of type 1010) in your BOD. You add these locations at the lowest level, that is, under the customer-facing locations in your BOD. Including a customer location of type 1010 in your BOD does not mean that you plan stock for this location automatically. However, you can then plan stock for specific products for this location by specifying in the location product master data on the SPP Inventory Planning tab page that these products are relevant for the OEM-managed inventory process.

The following figure shows a BOD with customer locations:

Displaying Planning Results for the Customer or Dealer on the Service Parts Planning Screens

You can display the planning results for customers or dealers on the Service Parts Planning screens. The screens on which you can view the BOD, such as Interactive Forecasting and DRP Matrix, display the customer locations or dealer locations of type 1010 if you have included these in the BOD.

If, however, you do not want to display these locations, or you want to display them for a limited time or for specific planners, you can proceed as follows:

  1. You implement the Business Add-In (BAdI) /SAPAPO/SPP_BOD_DISPLAY.

    In this BAdI, you can define a filter for displaying the BOD on the Service Parts Planning screens. If this filter is used and the BOD contains locations that match the filter criteria, the system displays the Show Filtered BOD pushbutton on the Service Parts Planning screens. By choosing this pushbutton, you can display the filtered BOD view. To return to the original BOD view, choose Show Complete BOD. In this way, you can switch between different BOD views.

    If you copy the standard implementation of the BAdI, the filtered BOD view contains no customer locations, that is, the system displays only your OEM locations in the filtered BOD view.

  2. You define a standard BOD view for each user and screen, that is, you define whether the system is to display a filtered BOD or a complete BOD for each user.

    Note Note

    Planners can toggle the view by choosing Show Filtered BOD and Show Complete BOD regardless of this standard view.

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    For more information, see Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Settings for User Interfaces Next navigation step Define User-Specific and Application-Specific Display of the BOD End of the navigation path.