Vendor Capacity Planning (SAP Library

Vendor Capacity Planning

Use

In the apparel and footwear industry you often work with manufacturers and subcontractors that are located far away. With these business partners you agree upon period-related delivery or production quantities, which you can enter in the AFS System by value or by quantity. You are thus informed about the warehouse stocks of your vendors and can react to market changes, without having to build up high warehouse stocks yourself.

Features

The vendor capacity that you agree upon with your vendor consists of the total capacity and the overload capacity.

The total capacity is the maximum capacity you assign to your vendor or the capacity your vendor provides. It refers to individual capacity levels (for example, capacity for the delivery of T-shirts with long and short sleeves) and it refers to the respective vendor across all levels (for example, 100,000 T-shirts from vendor Y).
The overload capacity is a capacity that exceeds the total capacity and which your vendor is willing to provide in special cases. Overload capacities are specified based on periods and are used after the total capacity for procuring materials has been consumed.

Note

If you manually process purchase requisitions, you will see a warning message when you exceed the vendor capacity. However, you will still be able to assign open purchase requisitions to the corresponding vendor.

If you make the assignment using the source allocation, purchase requisitions can no longer be assigned after the vendor capacity has been consumed. If the overload capacity should be included, activate the indicator Include overload capacity in the Sort and Vendor Ranking Criteria.

For more detailed information, please see the following documentation:

Creating and Processing the Vendor Capacity

Vendor Capacity Mass Change I and II

Report for the Vendor Capacity Situation

Capacity Planning and Capacity Consumption at Vendors