During switchover to the follow-up product, the system merges stocks, consumptions and open order proposals of the follow-up and original products according to the settings in the substitution merge profile.
You have fulfilled the prerequisites for product substitution in the forecast and requirements calculation.
The system uses the following algorithms for merging:
Merged consumption (follow-up product) = actual consumption of original product + actual consumption of follow-up product
Merged stock (follow-up product) = current stock of original product + current stock of follow-up product
Merged open order proposals (follow-up product) = current open order proposals of original product + current open order proposals of follow-up product
Only for the follow-up product, does the system take into account the current open order proposals of the original and follow-up product within the merge period.
During the merge period, the system uses the merge results when planning the follow-up product.