Show TOC

 SCM-APO-SPP, Service Parts Planning 1

 

Technical Data

Technical Name of Business Function

SCM_APO_SPP_GEN_1

Type of Business Function

Enterprise Business Function

Available From

SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) 7.0

Technical Usage

SCM

Application Component

Service Parts Planning (SCM-APO-SPP)

Required Business Function

SCM-SNC Supply Network Collaboration 1 (SCM_SNC_GEN1)

FND, Business Context Viewer (/BCV/MAIN)

Incompatible Business Function

Not relevant

You can use this business function to make use of the following enhancements in Service Parts Planning (SPP):

  • Shortage Monitor and Worklist enhancements, including Business Context Viewer integration

  • User interface enhancements to improve usability

  • Route determination in deployment, inventory balancing and inventory balancing for unserviceable products

  • Multi-level push deployment

  • Monitoring enhancements:

    • Performance monitoring for the Planning Service Manager (PSM)

    • Trigger monitoring

  • Flexible bill of distribution (BOD)

  • Improvement of report Assignment of Products to a BOD

  • Inventory planning can calculate with future BODs

  • Restocking in the stocking decision service

  • Supersession is available if BOD has location products using reorder-point based planning only

  • A consolidated view on global stock is available on entry location in DRP

  • An enhanced safety stock calculation option for the combined calculation of the economic order quantity (EOQ) and the safety stock (SFT)

  • Business Add-Ins

    • Business Add-In for deployment STO GATP check

    • Business Add-In for stability rule assignment in DRP

    • Example GATP BAdI implementation

  • Sales order PSM trigger for DRP

  • Selective version merge

For more information, see the Features section.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:

    Type of Component

    Component

    Required for the Following Features Only

    Software Component

    SCM 7.01

    SCM_BASIS 7.01

    SAP NetWeaver

    SAP NetWeaver 7.01

  • You have activated the business function SCM-SNC Supply Network Collaboration 1 (SCM_SNC_GEN1) to be able to display the Shortage Monitor enhancements.

  • You have activated the business function FND, Business Context Viewer (/BCV/MAIN) to be able to integrate Business Context Viewer in the Planner's Worklist queries.

  • You have activated the business function Service Parts Management: Innovations in ERP (SPE_CI_1) to allow for the transfer of the georoute from deployment, inventory balancing, and inventory balancing for unserviceable products STR to ERP stock transport order, and finally to the outbound delivery.

Features

Shortage Monitor and Worklist Enhancements
Shortage Monitor

The Shortage Monitor enhancements include the following

  • The Shortage Monitor displays additional overall information about the supplier confirmation and advanced shipping notification (ASN) quantities. This complements the information already provided (for example, open quantity) and gives the user an overview of the shortage. To show the quantities, the following two new key figures were added to the Location Product View subscreen:

    • Supplier Confirmation Quantity in Critical Horizon

      This key figure displays the aggregated supplier confirmation quantity.

    • ASN Quantity in Critical Horizon

      This key figure displays the aggregated ASN quantity.

  • The Request Status Description field has the following new values:

    • Not Sufficient ASN when an existing ASN does not fully cover the requested date and quantity.

    • Sufficient ASN when an existing ASN fully covers the requested date and quantity.

For more information, see Shortage Monitor.

The Purchase Order Worklist and Purchase Order Item Groups user interfaces are displayed in the Planner View (Internal) and Supplier View Web user interfaces. You can display them by choosing the Purchase Orders menu item.

Detail Component

The detail component displays form-based context information in the Planner's Worklist and Customer's Worklist queries. You can personalize the context-related information that the system displays by setting up the worklist detail component Customizing with own reading routines for each POWL type separately. You can also set up the detail component for non-SAP worklist types.

For more information, see Customizing for SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP Next navigation step Monitoring Next navigation step Detail Component for Planner's Worklist and Customer's Worklist Next navigation step Maintain Detail Component End of the navigation path.

For more information, see Detail Component for the Planner's and Customer's Worklists.

Business Context Viewer (BCV) Integration

Business Context Viewer (BCV) is integrated in the Planner's Worklist queries. The side panel of BCV comes delivered with predefined BCV queries that provide information about alerts for current demand and forecast, forecast time series, shortage, and stock overview. BCV is a highly flexible framework for gathering and displaying analytic data from a wide variety of sources. This means that you can set up your own search connectors, BCV queries and query views to serve your specific business needs.

For more information about Business Context Viewer (BCV), its configuration and execution, see Business Context Viewer (BCV).

For more information about BCV integration in the Planner's Worklist, see Analytics with Business Context Viewer (BCV).

User Interface Enhancements to Improve Usability

The following user interfaces have been enhanced:

  • STO Approval

  • Forecast Approval

  • Inventory Planning

  • Planning Profile

  • Location Product Master Data (SPP Inv. Balancing/ Surplus tab page)

For more information about the enhancements, see the SCM_APO_SPP_GEN_1: UI Enhancements (New) release note. In Customizing, choose Start of the navigation path Activate Business Functions End of the navigation path. In the ENTERPRISE_BUSINESS_FUNCTIONS tree, choose SCM_APO_SPP_GEN_1, and the Release Information column.

Route Determination

Deployment, inventory balancing and inventory balancing for unserviceable products can schedule stock transport orders (STOs) using the route determination logic. This means that route information is determined and stored in your SAP SCM system, and transferred to SAP ERP by the core interface (CIF).

For more information, see Route Determination in Service Parts Planning.

Multi-Level Push Deployment

This function enables push deployment and push deployment from supplier to deploy over multiple levels of the bill of distribution (BOD). If, in your supply chain, products are shipped to various levels of the bill of distribution directly from the supplier, it makes sense to skip the levels of the BOD that are not involved. Multi-level push deployment allows you to do this, reducing overall shipping costs.

For more information, see Multi-Level Push Deployment.

Monitoring Enhancements
Performance Monitoring

You can use the performance monitor to collect and display performance data from the Planning Service Manager (PSM). The performance data includes runtime, location products processed, orders processed, and so on.

For more information, see APO Performance Monitor.

Trigger Monitoring

You can use the trigger count service to monitor the trigger volumes in the system, and check which triggers were processed during particular Planning Service Manager (PSM) runs. The statistic is available both in the application log of the planning service as well as on a user interface where selections can be applied.

For more information, see Trigger Monitoring.

Flexible Bill of Distribution (BOD)

Flexible BOD simplifies the maintenance of BODs and their assignment to products in Service Parts Planning (SPP). In the case of flexible BOD, the restriction that the product must exist as location product at all locations of the BOD that is being assigned to it no longer holds. This enhancement can greatly reduce the number of BODs needed for distribution network modeling in the SPP system.

For more information, see Flexible Bill of Distribution.

Improvement of the Report Assignment of Products to a BOD

The report Assignment of Products to BOD (/SAPAPO/MULTIPROD_ASGN_BOD) is improved in a way that if there are more than one missing location products in a bill of distribution, it adds them to the application log and then continues processing the rest of the location products. This enhancement makes it possible to process large numbers of location products, as the assignment process does not stop at the first missing location product, as it did previously. You can also find out how many location products are missing altogether, as the report writes the missing location products to the application log.

Assignment of Products to BOD is also available on the SAP Easy Access screen, under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Application-Specific Master Data Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Bill of Distribution End of the navigation path.

For more information, see Assignment of Products to BOD.

Future BOD Available in Inventory Planning

Inventory planning can calculate with future bills of distribution (BODs). This function supports the calculation and display of accurate inventory planning results.

For more information, see Planning with Future Bills of Distribution (BODs) in Inventory Planning.

Restocking in Stocking Decision Service

You can use restocking in the stocking decision service. Restocking is an option in the stocking decision service, whereby a location product that had a planning-relevant replenishment indicator previously, but does not currently, is stocked again. In such cases, the system sets the replenishment indicator as ST (stocked), instead of SN (stocked new).

For more information, see Making Stocking and Destocking Decisions.

Supersession Available if BOD Contains ROP Products

You can use the supersession service even if your bill of distribution (BOD) contains location products using reorder point-based (ROP) planning only.

In such a case, the system sets the current date (the date of running the service) or the next working day as the date for the following:

  • At each entry location of the predecessor product's sub-BOD that contains only location products with ROP-based planning:

    • the stock exhaustion date

    • the stock exhaustion warning date

  • At the successor product entry locations:

    • the successor product planning date

    • the successor product receipt date

This also means that the system creates these entry points in the chain in the interchangeability master data.

Consolidated View on Global Stock on Entry Location in DRP

Distribution requirements planning (DRP) creates a consolidated view at the entry location of the BOD by rolling up not only demands but also excess stock along the distribution network. Following this, inventory balancing creates stock transport orders to transport the excess stock to cover demands at other locations.

For more information, see Aggregation of Demands Within the BOD.

Enhanced Safety Stock Calculation Option for the EOQ/SFT Calculation Service

You can enable enhanced safety stock calculation to be used by the EOQ/SFT calculation service by selecting the Enable Enhanced Safety Stock Calculation checkbox in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning Next navigation step Inventory Planning Next navigation step Make General Settings for Inventory Planning End of the navigation path. The enhanced safety stock calculation option allows you to select any of the following safety stock calculation methods for location products and virtual child locations in the case of a normal distribution calculation model:

  • Cycle Service Level (CSL)

  • Fill Rate (FR)

  • SH (Sap Hybrid)

You can select the calculation method in location product master data (transaction /SAPAPO/MAT1).

For more information, see Setting Up Master Data for Inventory Planning and Settings for the Combined Planning of EOQ and SFT.

Business Add-Ins
STO GATP Check in Deployment

The Business Add-In (BAdI) BAdI: Splitting Depl. and Invntry Bal. STOs According to Storage Locations (/SAPAPO/SPP_DEPL_REDEPL_STO_SL) is available. You can use this BAdI to split stock transport orders (STOs) created by deployment, inventory balancing, and inventory balancing for unserviceable products according to storage location stock availability.

For more information, see the BAdI documentation in Customizing, under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step BAdI: Splitting Depl. and Invntry Bal. STOs According to Storage Locations End of the navigation path.

Stability Rule Assignment in DRP

The Business Add-In (BAdI) BAdI: Stability Rule Assignment for Location Products (/SAPAPO/SPP_DRP_STABILITY_RULE) is available. You can use this BAdI to change the stability rules in distribution requirements planning (DRP).

For more information, see the BAdI documentation in Customizing, under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step BAdIs for Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) Next navigation step BAdI: Stability Rule Assignment for Location Products End of the navigation path.

Example ATP BAdI Implementation for Realignment Services

The Business Add-In (BAdI) BAdI: Adjust Interface Parameter for ATP Check (/SAPAPO/PDEM_ATP_CHECK_IF) has an example implementation in the system. You can use the example implementation to determine the customer-facing and stockholding locations during realignment services by a simple logic that involves checking the replenishment indicator and the BOD structure. This is useful if you do not require or do not even implement a GATP logic for determining the customer-facing and stockholding locations for your SPP demand history. In such a case, you can use the example implementation of the BAdI.

Sales Order PSM Trigger for DRP

A new PSM trigger is available for DRP. The system sets the trigger when a sales order arrives at the core interface (CIF). In accordance with the standard trigger delivery, the trigger is not active in the system, you have to activate it if you want to use it.

The Business Add-In (BAdI) BAdI: Specification of DRP PSM Trigger (/SAPAPO/DM_SPP_SALES) is available. You can use this BAdI to determine in CIF whether the trigger should be created or not for a particular order.

For more information, see the BAdI documentation in Customizing, under Start of the navigation path Advanced Planning and Optimization Next navigation step Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) for Service Parts Planning (SPP) Next navigation step BAdIs for Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) Next navigation step BAdI: Specification of DRP PSM Trigger End of the navigation path.

For more information, see Triggers in Service Parts Planning.

Selective Version Merge

The system provides a selection possibility for the target version of the attributes of the master data that you want to merge in transaction Merge Master Data of Inactive Version with Active Version (/SAPAPO/VM_SPP). This means that the system replaces only the chosen attributes. Previously, the target attributes were overwritten by the source attributes when you merged versions of master data. This function makes it possible to select which attributes the system should replace.

For more information, see Merge Master Data of Active Version with Inactive Version.