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Process documentationMaintenance of Master Data

 

This process describes the sequence in which you maintain some of the most important master data for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) in SAP APO. You can transfer the master data from the OLTP system to the SAP APO system and then postprocess it in the SAP APO system; you must transfer the master data for all products that you want to plan in SAP APO.

Note Note

In SAP ERP, a material can have a serial number. However, there is no processing of serial numbers in SAP APO.

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Process

  1. You create a supply chain model in the model/planning version master data or in the Supply Chain Engineer.

  2. You create a planning version based on the supply chain model and you set the PP/DS: Change planning active indicator for the planning version. For more information, see also Supply Chain Model, Planning Version and Supply Chain Engineer.

  3. You maintain the locations in which the products should be produced or at which the products should be procured. You assign the locations to the model.

  4. You maintain the location products and specify the planning-relevant data for each location product, such as

  5. You assign the products to the model.

  6. You maintain the resources. For in-house production, you use single-activity or multiactivity resources. If you want to execute integrated planning with Supply Network Planning (SNP) and PP/DS, you use single mixed and multimixed resources.

  7. You maintain the sources of supply and assign them to the model.

    • For products produced in-house, you use in-house production sources of supply (production process models, PP/DS runtime objects, or iPPE access objects).

    • For externally produced products, you maintain transportation lanes between the locations. Using these, you can model the procurement of products from external or business-internal suppliers.

    So that PP/DS can determine the most cost-efficient procurement option for planning, you can maintain costs in the source of supply or in the transportation lane.

For more information, see Integration of Master Data.