Transfer to Demand Management (SAP Library - Sales & Operations Planning (LO-LIS-PLN))

Transfer to Demand Management

Use

You can pass on data planned in Flexible Planning or Standard SOP to Demand Management.

Demand Management determines the requirement dates and requirement quantities for important assemblies and specifies the strategies for planning and producing/procuring finished products. The result of Demand Management is the demand program. The demand program differentiates planned independent requirements and customer independent requirements. It gives the information needed in MPS and MRP for planning at SKU level. The placing of sales orders eventually consumes planned requirements and triggers updating to the Sales Information System. This actual data can then be used as input for future sales planning. For more information, see PP Demand Management.

Prerequisites

The system distributes the data to the appropriate plants in Demand Management on the basis of the quotas you set in Customizing (in Define proportional distribution across plants). You can also make these settings in the Flexible Planning or Standard SOP menu by choosing Settings ® Plant distribution. Plant distribution works as follows:

If a plant or plants can be found for the material in the planning hierarchy, data is transferred to Demand Management for these plants.

If no plant can be found in the planning hierarchy, the system checks to see which plants have been maintained for the material in the material master record. It then checks to see whether distribution quotas have been maintained for the material. If quotas have been maintained, the transfer to Demand Management is based on these quotas.

If no distribution quotas are found for the material, the system checks to see whether you have set generic distribution quotas; that is, distribution quotas that apply to all materials. If so, the transfer to Demand Management is based on these quotas. If generic quotas exist for some but not all plants maintained in the material master record, the system assumes that the distribution quotas of plants without generic quotas are 0.

If no distribution quotas are found at all—neither material-specific nor generic ones—, the system splits the data equally among all the plants in the material master record.

See also:

Plant Distribution Quotas

Features

Independent requirements are created in Demand Management for all materials whose data has been transferred. These independent requirements are created in the base unit of measure of the material. The base unit of measure of the material is not necessarily the same as the base unit of measure of the information structure or the unit in which you planned the material. See also Switching Units in the Planning Table.

You can transfer SOP data to Demand Management in the following ways:

Using mass processing

See How to Transfer Data to Demand Management with Mass Processing.

Online, synchronously and automatically

See below.

Online, asynchronously and manually

See below.

Transferring Online, Synchronously and Automatically

You set the following information structure parameters in Customizing for Sales & Operations Planning (in Set parameters of info structures and key figures).

Field name of the key figure whose values are to be transferred

Planning version from which the data is to be transferred

Demand version to which the data is to be transferred

The system creates or overwrites independent requirements in Demand Management every time you save this planning version of the information structure in Flexible Planning.

Transferring Online, Asynchronously and Manually

You choose between the following options:

Transfer of the planning data of all members of a single-level product group from standard SOP (a single-level product group is a product group whose members are materials)

Transfer of the planning data created for one material from standard SOP

Transfer of key figure values from an information structure

You make the following general settings:

The material or product group whose data you want to be transferred
The plant of this material or product group
The planning version of the information structure in which the data is stored
The dates for which you want the data to be transferred
Whether you want to check what the data looks like as independent requirements before you transfer it
The requirements type

If you do not make an entry, the system sets the requirements type via the MRP group which is maintained in the material master record.

The version of the demand program to which you want the data to be transferred
Whether this version of the demand program is active and therefore relevant to MRP

Depending on the option you chose in step 1, you set one of the following strategies.

Transferring Planning Data from a Single-Level Product Group

You transfer the sales plans of the materials direct.
You transfer the sales plans of the materials as proportions of their owner product group (using the proportional factors defined in the product group master record).
You transfer the production plans of the materials direct.
You transfer the production plans of the materials as proportions of their owner product group (using the proportional factors defined in the product group master record).

Transferring Planning Data of One Material from Standard SOP

You transfer the sales plan of the material direct
You transfer the sales plan of the material as a proportion of the product group of which it is a member (using the proportional factor defined in the product group master record)
You transfer the production plan of the material direct
You transfer the production plan of the material as a proportion of the product group of which it is a member (using the proportional factor defined in the product group master record)

Transferring Key Figure Data of One Material from Flexible Planning

The information structure from which you want the key figure data to be transferred
The key figure whose values you want to be transferred

This key figure must be a quantity key figure.