Creation of Stock Transport Requisitions

If the cost-benefit analysis carried out as part of inventory balancing is positive, the system creates stock transport requisitions . Before the system sends these stock transport requisitions, it carries out scheduling. You can then either confirm the scheduled stock transport requisitions manually, or the system forwards them to a filter directly. This filter checks the number of outbound stock transport requisitions per day, and then sends stock transport orders as the result of inventory balancing.

Features

Scheduling

The system schedules stock transport requisitions to determine when the goods will arrive at the shortage location. For the system to schedule stock transport requisitions, you have chosen the Deployment: Location to Location (Pull) scheduling scenario in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Basic Settings Configure Scheduling End of the navigation path . This scenario describes the time you need to transfer stock from one location to another. The Deployment: Location to Location (Pull) scenario consists of the following component lead times:

Goods Issue Processing Time
Transportation Time
Goods Receipt Processing Time

For more information about procurement lead times, see Procurement Lead Times in Service Parts Planning.

Manual Confirmation

If you want to confirm all stock transport requisitions manually before the system sends them as stock transport orders, you can set the Manually Confirm Stock Transport Orders indicator in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Inventory Balancing Make General Settings for Inventory Balancing End of the navigation path . If you want to confirm the stock transport orders for certain products manually, you can create an additional service profile for inventory balancing in which you specify that you want to release stock transport orders manually. You do so in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Deployment and Inventory Balancing Inventory Balancing Define Service Profile for Inventory Balancing End of the navigation path . You can then enter this service profile, together with the required product selection in one planning profile and schedule this planning profile in the Planning Service Manager (PSM).

If you have chosen the manual confirmation of stock transport requisitions, you can see each stock transport requisition, check it, and then approve it. You do this on the SAP Easy Access screen under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Planning Deployment and Inventory Balancing Deployment and Inventory Balancing End of the navigation path under STO Approval on the Inventory Balancing STOs tab page.

Filter

After the system has created stock transport requisitions, it forwards them to a filter either directly or after manual confirmation. Here, the system checks that pull deployment and the inventory balancing service only send a certain number of stock transport orders per day. Since locations submitting stock can only handle a limited number of stock transport orders per day, the allowed number per day is limited. You specify this number in the location master data on the SPP tab page under Deployment in the STOs/Day field. If the number of stock transport orders at one location on one day exceeds this limit, the system only sends the stock transport orders with the biggest savings.

Note Note

The system only carries out this check in the active version, but not in the simulation or inactive versions.

End of the note.