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 Determination of the Stock Exhaustion Date

Use

To substitute one or more products, the system calculates the stock exhaustion dateof the predecessor product(s) for each entry location and saves this date for each entry location in the master data for product and location interchangeability. The stock exhaustion date specifies when the available stock of the predecessor product is likely to be completely used-up.

Features

To determine the stock exhaustion date, the system checks your entry in the master data for product and location interchangeability under Use-up Strategy .

  • If you want to work without a use-up strategy, the system sets the stock exhaustion date to the current date.

  • If you want to work with a use-up strategy, the system defines the stock exhaustion date as follows: It compares stock and demands, and calculates when the stock will be used-up. Stocks consist of the warehouse stock, the stock in transit (within the BOD and of the supplier) and the fixed receipts of the supplier. The demand consists of the forecasted demand and the fixed demand. The determined stock exhaustion date must not exceed the maximum stock exhaustion horizon. You define this in 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 Supersession End of the navigation path in the IMG activity Define Service Profile for Supersession in the MxStkExHor field.

  • If you want to work with a restricted use-up strategy, the system determines the stock exhaustion date as described above. However, in this case, the stock exhaustion date must come before the date that you specified under Use-Up Date . If this is not the case, the system uses your entry under Use-Up Date as the stock exhaustion date.

Special cases:

  • For many-to-one substitution (OR), the system determines the stock exhaustion date for each supersession chain separately.

  • For many-to-one substitution (AND), the system specifies the stock exhaustion date for each of the predecessor products and determines the earliest stock exhaustion date as the valid stock exhaustion date.

  • For one-to-one substitution with partial substitution, the system does not calculate a stock exhaustion date as the predecessor product remains a part of the assortment.

  • For one-to-zero substitution, the system determines the stock exhaustion date as the current date.