Execute Characteristics-Dependent Planning (CDP) 

Use

You can use CDP to allocate requirements and receipt components via the same characteristics.

Prerequisites

To use CDP, ensure that the following prerequisites have been met:

·        You have met the general prerequisites (see Prerequisites for Planning)

·        You have specified that you are using characteristics-dependent planning (CDP) in Customizing in SAP APO under Advanced Planning and Optimization → Master Data → Classification and Configuration → Define Configuration Relevance (CDP or Variant Configuration)..

·        The materials must be configurable in the R/3 system (plug-in), or must be material variants that refer to a configurable material.

·        The products must be assigned a class with class type 400 in SAP APO.

·        When transferring from the R/3 system (plug-in), the system converts the classes with class type 300 and, if required, class type 023 to class type 400.

·        If you are using production process model plans (PPMs) as the source of supply for in-house production, you must have defined a characteristic propagation (see Define Characteristics Propagation).

Features

...

In SAP APO, you can create planned or production orders with configuration for a configurable product. The incoming sales orders are assigned to the suitable planned or production orders via pegging (see also Pegging).

The system internally converts planned orders with a configuration into production orders when retransferring the data to the R/3 system; planned orders cannot have their own configuration in the R/3 system.

When planning in warehouse segment, you can only retransfer the production orders with a configuration if you are using the industry-specific enhancement IS-MP.

...