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Procedure

  1. Check that the plant is set up in SAP ECC:

    In Customizing choose   Enterprise Structure   Definition   Plant Maintenance   Maintain maintenance planning plant  .

  2. Check that the plant is assigned to the organizational unit in SAP ECC:

    In Customizing choose   Enterprise Structure   Assignment   Sales and Distribution   Assign sales organization - distribution channel - plant  .

    R/3 System

    Client

    Plant

    Sales Org

    Distr Ch

    Division

    R38

    800

    0001

    0001

    01

    01

  3. Check that the material master is set up in SAP ECC.

    In the SAP Easy Access menu choose   Logistics   Sales and Distribution   Master Data   Products   Material   Other Material   Display  .

    Mat.no.

    Description

    Plant

    Stor. Loc

    Sales Org.

    Distr. Ch.

    Division

    M100

    Product with availability check

    0001

    0001

    0001

    01

    01

    Note Note

    If you use numeric material numbers, you have to make sure that either the length of the material number fields in SAP CRM and in SAP APO is the same or that leading zeros are turned off in both systems.

    End of the note.

  4. Check the settings for the material master.

    Choose Select view(s) to check the field entries in the views as follows:

    Caution Caution

    The fields that are marked as mandatory must have entries in them. Otherwise the material master will not be relevant for availability check in SAP APO, even if it is included in the integration model of the APO Core Interface (APO-CIF).

    End of the caution.

    View

    Field

    Mandatory

    Example Data

    Basic data1

    Base Unit

    PC

    Division

    01

    GenItemCatGroup

    NORM

    Gross weight

    2 kg

    Net weight

    1.5 kg

    Sales: sales org. 1

    Conditions (prices)

    USD 1 per piece

    Delivering plant

    0001

    Sales: general/plant

    Availability check

    yes

    02 (individual rqmt)

    Collective requirements are not supported.

    MRP 1

    MRP Type

    yes

    PD (MRP)

    Reorder point

    0

    Planning time fence

    10

    MRP Controller

    yes

    010

    Lot size

    yes

    EX

    MRP 2

    Procurement type

    F (external procurement)

    Plnd dely time

    10 days

    GR processing time

    0 days

    SchedMargin key

    001

    MRP 3

    Strategy group

    PP (general planning strategy group)

    In this example, the strategy group is set up so that the system determines the requirements class 030.

    The requirements class in SAP ECC is equivalent to the check mode in SAP APO.

    The check mode 030 is used in Set up Customizing for Availability Check under the section In the SAP APO System, Step 4 Maintain Check Mode.

    For more information, see the

    SAP Library for SAP ECC under   Logistics   Production Planning and Control (PP)   Master Planning (PP-MP)   Demand Management (PP-MP-DEM)   Planning Strategies  

    IMG in SAP ECC under   Production   Production Planning   Demand Management   Planned Independent Requirements   Requirements Types/Requirements Classes   and Planning Strategy.

    Availability check

    yes

    02 (individual rqmt)

    Collective requirements are not supported.

    Caution Caution

    For information on transferring changes to the product master data in the SAP ECC, see the SAP Library for SAP Supply Chain Management under   SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO)   Integration via APO Core Interface (CIF)   Technical Integration   SAP APO Core Interface (CIF)   Data Transfer   Transfer of Data Changes   Change Transfer for Master Data  .

    End of the caution.

    Mat.no.

    Description

    Plant

    Storage Location

    M328

    Acme X Organizer

    0001

    0001

  5. Check the stock in SAP ECC:

    The easiest way to test the availability check is to create stock to cover requirements. You can create stock in SAP ECC by posting goods receipt.

    1. In the SAP Easy Access menu choose   Logistics   Materials Management   Inventory Management   Goods Movement   Goods Receipt   Other  .

    2. In the Movement type field enter 561.

  6. Check that the business partner is set up in SAP ECC.

    In the SAP Easy Access menu choose   Logistics   Sales and Distribution   Master Data   Business Partner   Customer   Display   Complete  .

    Customer No.

    CRM Business Partner No.

    Name

    Sales Area

    1000

    100

    Acme International Technology

    0001/01/01