Setting of Replenishment Indicators

Use

For each location product the system sets a replenishment indicator to specify how the system plans a location with products. A replenishment indicator can, for example, show whether a system plans stocking or destocking of a product at a location.

Features

Define Replenishment Indicators

We deliver the following replenishment indicators:

Not stocked, blocked, sales-relevant
Not stocked, blocked, non-sales-relevant
Not stocked
Procure to order
Stocked and blocked
Stocked (new)
Stocked

You can define the properties of each of these replenishment indicators in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Start of the navigation path Master Data Next navigation step Product Define Replenishment Indicator End of the navigation path .You can choose between the following properties:

With the Locked indicator, you can control whether the stocking or destocking service can change the replenishment indicator.
With the Plng-Rel. indicator, you can determine whether a replenishment indicator, and thus the location products for which this replenishment indicator is set, is planning relevant.
With the Sales-Rel. indicator, you can determine whether a location product is sales-relevant. By not setting this indicator, you can, for example, mark a product that is new at a location and that still has little stock as being not sales-relevant.
With the Backlog indicator, you can determine whether the system can create a backorder at the location of a specific product in the case of an incomplete order. If, for example, you do not plan stock for a location or transfer stock to it, you can control that the system cannot create backorders for this location.
With the Proc./Ord. indicator, you can determine that the system does not store a product. If you have set the Proc./Ord. Indicator, the system only generates a purchase orderat the entry location, and only does so if a child location demands the corresponding product. This means that the system does not plan storage of the product in the whole bill of distribution (BOD).

Assign Replenishment Indicators

The stocking and destocking decision services assign a replenishment indicator to each location product. If you specify that the selected replenishment indicator is planning-relevant , the system considers this location product during inventory planning.

You can see which replenishment indicator the system has assigned to which location product in the location product master data on the SPP Inv. Planning tab page in the Replenishment Ind. field. You can also manually overwrite the replenishment indicator set by the systemin this field. If you do so, the system considers your manual entry until the next planning run.

Note Note

If you create a new location product, the system always assigns the Not stocked replenishment indicator to it first.

End of the note.

Define Minimum Duration of Assignment

To keep inventory planning stable, you can enter a number of days during which the inventory planning service cannot change the replenishment indicator in the location product master data on the SPP Inv. Planning tab page in the fields StabPer. Stocking and StabPer. Destocking . The number of days defined by you begins at the date that the inventory planning service sets in the field Set date .

Define Limit Value forStocked (New)Indicator

If there is a goods receipt of a location product with a Stocked (New) replenishment indicator, the system checks whether this replenishment indicator is still justified. The Stocked (New) replenishment indicator is justified as long as the stock of the corresponding location product exceeds a limit value defined by you. You can define this limit in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization by choosing Start of the navigation path Supply Chain Planning Next navigation step Service Parts Planning (SPP) Inventory Planning Define Limit Value for Replenishment Indicator. End of the navigation path To do this you enter a percentage in the Prcnt. column. This percentage refers to the forecasted demand during the replenishment lead time. If the stock of the corresponding location product exceeds this percentage of the forecasted demand during the replenishment lead time, the system changes the replenishment indicator from Stocked (New) to Stocked .

Lock Replenishment Indicator

A replenishment indicator is locked in the following cases:

You have manually locked the replenishment indicator in Customizing under Define Replenishment Indicator .

For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Advanced Planning and Optimization Master Data Product Define Replenishment Indicator .
There is an exclusion reason for a location product. You can specify exclusion reasons, for example “heavier than 10 tons” or “pilferable”, in Customizing for Advanced Planning and Optimization under Inventory Planning Define Exclusion Reasons for Location .
You can define exclusion reasons on the SAP Easy Access menu under Advanced Planning and Optimization Service Parts Planning (SPP) Inventory Planning Stocking/Destocking Location Exclusion Table .
You can see whether an exclusion reason exists for a location product in the location product master data on the SPP Inv. Planning tab page in the Lock Indicator field.