Technical Name of Business Function |
AD_GPD_CI_2 |
Type of Business Function |
Industry Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Discrete Industries and Mill Products (DIMP) |
Application Component |
Grouping, Pegging, and Distribution (IS-AD-GPD) |
Directly Dependent Business Function Requiring Activation in Addition |
Grouping, Pegging, and Distribution Improvements (AD_GPD_CI_1) |
You can use this business function to enable clients to group purchase requirements to increase buying power, but still keep the financial integrity of information for billing (particularly for government business). The solution consists of a grouping function for grouping the requirements, pegging function for pegging the requirements to the originating WBS element, and distribution function for distributing the costs according to the rule set.
In particular, this business function offers new or additional functions in the following areas:
GPD archiving
GPD distribution report
Vendor confirmation
New movement type: material-to-material and inventory gain
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component |
Component |
Software Component |
ECC-DIMP 605 |
You can archive inactive entries from GPD tables by making the replenishment object the main archiving object of the process. Archiving GPD data is essential for preserving or improving the overall performance in GPD transactions. The second feature is the mechanism which prevents GPD-related business objects (such as purchase orders, production orders, sales orders, work breakdown structures of a project, project, and so on) from being archived until the corresponding GPD entries are archived.
The new report provides significant improvements in performance and memory usage. You can use it to distribute costs based on replenishment objects, and make use of improved messaging and logging functions using the distribution run profile.
You can calculate quantities/dates during procurement pegging of purchase orders, which is based on the most up-to-date vendor confirmations (if existing). Until now, pegging was calculated based on the purchase order quantity. Now, pegging calculates using the quantity that the vendor confirmed (s)he is able to deliver. The vendor confirmations replace schedule line items. The new pegging program is able to process manual confirmations, order acknowledgements or advance shipping notifications.
Stock adjustment movements with project stock (Q) are possible in the GPD environment. Previously, because these movements were not associated with real replenishments, the field Replenishment Object was not populated in the GPD In Stock table during the goods movement, and pegging could not recognize these entries. Now, the goods movement transaction populates a dummy replenishment object with information from the goods movement document that posts the stock adjustment, enabling pegging to process these records. The pegging report can process stock adjustments based on the new dummy replenishment objects (including group-to-group transfer and cross plant scenarios).
Material-to-material type movements (309/310) with project stock (Q) are possible in the GPD environment. Material-to-material transfer is used for material reidentification, and replacement of old material with new material in the bill of materials (BOM). Since these movements are not associated with real replenishments, GPD could previously not handle this kind of transfer. Now, the introduction of dummy replenishment objects with information from the material document allows pegging to recognize these entries.