Quantity distribution profile (SAP Library - Production Planning and Control)

Quantity Distribution Profile

Use

The quantity distribution profile facilitates the data maintenance in the bill of material. It is used as input help for the grid value assignment (see Automatic Grid Value Assignment and Manual Grid Value Assignment) and for the maintenance of the deviation and zero quantities (see Deviation Quantities and Zero Quantities).

Prerequisites

You can define a quantity distribution profile for the following cases:

The header material of a BOM and its component have the same grid.

Due to the automatic grid value assignment, a consumption quantity was assigned to each grid value that corresponds to the default quantity at component level. In this case it is advantageous to use the quantity distribution profile only for grid values, whose consumption quantity deviates from the default quantity. You can use the same quantity distribution profile for the assignment of different materials that are based on the same grids.

The header material of a BOM and its component have different grids.

When using the quantity distribution profile, it is not necessary to manually assign grid values. You can use the same quantity distribution profile for the assignment of different materials that are based on the same grids.

Note

It is advantageous to use a quantity distribution profile in the BOM if you use only a few grids to define the characteristics of many materials. Then you can use the same quantity distribution profile again and again.

Features

When you create a quantity distribution profile you can show all the existing grid values of the header material and then maintain the grid values of the component either manually or by using the input help.

After you have selected a quantity distribution profile, the system will display the factor values that already exist for it.

You can also enter a new quantity distribution profile for BOMs by using the engineering change management / change number. Please note that changes at SKU level are not displayed when the change documents are displayed.

The mass data change for AFS also includes the quantity distribution profile. For more information, see Mass Data Change with Quantity Distribution Profile.

Activities

To assign a new quantity distribution profile to a BOM, do as follows:

Define a quantity distribution profile.

When creating the quantity distribution profile, you assign the grid values of the header material to the grid values of the component. You specify a distribution factor for each assignment. The factor refers to the default quantity as the basis quantity you have maintained in the BOM at component level. According to this distribution factor, the system distributes the default quantities among the grid values. The default quantities are calculated based on the base quantities of the grid values.

Assign the quantity distribution profile to your BOM.

Example

You produce ladies' blazers and know from experience that you have an excess consumption of 2% per size. Your reference grid value is 38 and the base quantity is 2 m².

Quantity distribution profile

Size	Distribution Factor
34	0.06
36	0.08
38 (reference grid value)	1
40	1.02
42	1.04
44	1.06

You would get the following result if you use the quantity distribution profile above when creating the BOM.

Default Quantities per Size

Size	Default Quantities in m²
34	1.92
36	1.96
38	2.00 (base quantity)
40	2.04
42	2.08
44	2.12