Use

You can control when orders that you have created or changed in SAP APO are transferred to the connected SAP R/3 system. By making specific transfers, you can reduce the load on the interface between the SAP APO system and the SAP R/3 system.

You can control this by separating the transfer event and the physical transfer: If you create or change an order, PP/DS can automatically create a transfer event, that is, the order is marked for physical transfer. Using the transfer functions, the user can also create transfer events specifically for selected orders. Depending on the transfer settings, the order is transferred to the SAP R/3 system either immediately after the transfer event is created, or the transfer event is automatically recorded and the user can execute the transfer at a later date.

Prerequisites

For information on system integration and data transfer, see Integration of SAP APO and SAP R/3 .

Integration

You can link the transfer of planned orders or purchase requisitions with automatic order opening in SAP R/3 system. To do this, you set the conversion indicator for the orders in PP/DS. Immediately after the transfer, the orders are automatically converted into production orders or purchase orders in the SAP R/3 system.

For more information, see Setting the Conversion Indicator

Features

Automatically creating transfer events

PP/DS automatically creates a transfer event for each change to a production order . For planned order s or purchase requisitions , you can specify separately if, or in which cases, PP/DS creates a transfer event. You have the following options:

You can make these settings in the customizing for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) under Maintain global parameters and defaults .

User-controlled creation of transfer events

If you want to create transfer events for planned orders or purchase requisitions, for which PP/DS does not automatically create transfer events (or has not yet created events), you use mass transfer or individual transfer .

Processing the transfer events

The time at which the orders are actually transferred to the SAP R/3 system depends on your settings for the transfer. You have the following options:

You make these settings user-specifically in the area menu for APO Administration under  Integration Settings User settings . You execute the online transfer in the area menu for APO Administration under  Integration Publications Process change pointer . For background transfer, you use report /SAPAPO/RDMCPPROCESS.

Activities

Until the first transfer, a planned order or purchase requisition created in SAP APO has a local order number. When the order is transferred to the SAP R/3 system, it obtains an SAP R/3 order number. The order number is automatically transferred to the APO System. If source determination for external procurement takes place in SAP R/3, the source of supply is also transferred back to SAP APO.

If you transfer a planned order or purchase requisition into the SAP R/3 system, with the conversion indicator set, a production order or purchase order is immediately automatically created in the SAP R/3 system . In the SAP R/3 system, there is therefore no corresponding planned order or purchase requisition.

After an order has already be transferred to the SAP R/3 system once, the order in the SAP R/3 system is updated in accordance with the changes in the SAP APO system, after further transfers.