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 Splitting of Replenishment Orders

Use

SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) is able to split a replenishment order based on criteria that you specify. For example, if a customer back-end system has a different purchase order number range for each purchasing group, you would configure a purchasing group split. In this way, each replenishment order is only relevant for one purchasing group. Therefore, the purchase orders that are subsequently created can still conform to the defined number ranges.

Prerequisites

  • You have maintained split criteria in the SAP SNC Web UI. To do this, on the SAP SNC Web UI, choose Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Number Ranges Next navigation step Replenishment Split Criteria End of the navigation path .

  • You have configured number range intervals for purchase orders that correspond to the split criteria.

Features

SplitCriteria

You can set that a replenishment order is split based on the following characteristics:

  • Customer

  • Customer location

  • Purchasing group

  • Promotion

For each characteristic combination, you can specify how the system splits replenishment orders:

  • Customer location split

    The system creates one replenishment order for each customer location. Thus, each replenishment order only contains items for one customer location.

  • Purchasing group split

    The system creates one replenishment order for each purchasing group. Thus, each replenishment order only contains items for one purchasing group.

  • Promotion split

    The system creates one replenishment order for each promotion. Thus, each replenishment order only contains items for one promotion.

  • Ship-from location split

    The system creates one replenishment order for each ship-from location. Thus, each replenishment order only contains items for one ship-from location.

  • Schedule line split

    The system only allows replenishment orders to have items that only have one schedule line. If an item contains more than one schedule line, the system generates a replenishment order for each schedule line. The order contains one item with this schedule line.

If you do not define any characteristics for an entry, but do specify split criteria, these split criteria are valid for all replenishment orders. You can make different split criteria for each characteristic combination.

Furthermore, you can combine split criteria. If, for example, you set both a customer split and a purchasing group split, the system generates replenishment orders whose items have the same customer and the same purchasing group.

Splitting in TLB and Other Planning Services

When the transport load builder (TLB) creates a replenishment order, it can, if necessary, split the replenishment order according to the defined split criteria. Similarly, in the Dynamic Sourcing scenario, the service for proposing planned receipts can also split a replenishment order that it creates.

Splitting During Manual Creation

When you create a replenishment order manually, SAP SNC can split the replenishment order according to the defined split criteria, when you save the replenishment order.