Stopping the Change Transfer for SNP Planned Orders 

Use

In an integrated system landscape, critical components are usually planned in SNP and the results are published to SAP R/3 at regular intervals. However, non-critical components are often planned in SAP R/3 using material requirements planning (MRP). Planned orders for which the components are planned in both SAP R/3 and SAP APO can be changed in SAP R/3 by BOM explosions or lead time scheduling, even if MRP procedure X is assigned to the header material, which does not usually allow changes. The changes are transferred to SAP APO as part of the change transfer and can lead to inconsistencies between SAP R/3 and SAP APO.

In SNP Customizing, you can set that SAP APO only allows a transfer from SAP R/3 for planned orders in the SNP production horizon. As a result, SAP APO does not adopt any changes to SNP planned orders from SAP R/3.

Activities

       1.      In SNP Customizing, choose Basic Settings → Maintain Global SNP Settings →Planned Order Integration.

The option Allow transfer from SAP R/3 for all planned orders is set as standard. With this settings, there is no filtering of planned orders in SAP APO inbound. SAP APO posts all planned orders and planned order changes that are sent from SAP R/3.

Choose Only allow transfer for planned orders in SNP production horizon.

       2.      In SAP APO inbound, planned orders that meet the following prerequisites are filtered out:

¡        MRP procedure X (without planning, with BOM explosion) is assigned to the header material of the planned order in SAP R/3

¡        The availability date of the header material lies outside the SNP production horizon

¡        The SNP production horizon or the extended SNP production horizon is maintained on the SNP 2 tab page in the product master (transaction /SAPAPO/MAT1)

As a result, changes to these planned orders are not posted to SAP APO.

However, the following transfers continue to be posted:

¡        Initial transfer of planned orders

¡        Changes to planned orders that were triggered by the compare/reconcile function

¡        PP/DS planned orders

¡        Planned orders that were newly created in SAP R/3 (there are created automatically as PP/DS planned orders)

¡        Deletions for planned orders