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Use
With this standard function you can carry out the availability check for planned independent requirements in sales orders instead of for existing inbound and outbound elements. That way planned independent requirements can be consumed with confirmed quantities for the sales order during the goods receipt.
Prerequisites
To use ATP against planning, you must maintain the following in Customizing:
There must also be independent requirements.
Features
The consumption of planned independent requirements is based on the AFS consumption mode and on the period defined for the material master in the Customizing settings.

ATP against planning is only executed for planned independent requirements that will be consumed by sales orders and not for dependent requirements.
Activities
To activate ATP against planning do the following:

This field is only available in the AFS sales order entry.