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  Correcting an Order with a Multiple Substitution

Purpose

You cannot transfer in-house production orders with a multiple substitution to SAP R/3. In SAP APO, in an integrated scenario, you should therefore only plan product interchangeability with supersession chains containing two products (of the form A – B) or always update the bills of material in the in-house production sources of supply in time. If you plan using supersession chains with multiple products, and do not update the bills of material in time, the system might create in-house production orders with a multiple substitution, depending on the stock and requirements situation of the components. This process describes how you can convert an in-house production order with a multiple substitution into an in-house production order with a single substitution and transfer it to SAP R/3.

Process Flow

  1. If you try to transfer an order with a multiple substitution to SAP R/3, the system does not execute the order transfer and creates a faulty queue entryin SAP R/3.

  2. If you nevertheless want to transfer the order to SAP R/3, you reduce the supersession chain in SAP APO to a chain with two products containing the current component and its predecessor.

  3. Reexplode the in-house production order in SAP APO in the order processing view using the same source of supply. Choose Change in the screen section Source/Target. The changed order now only contains the original component, that is, the component from the source of supply.

  4. To update the components from the order, you perform an ATP check in SAP APO for the in-house production order. Since the supersession chain has only two products, the ATP check includes a maximum of one substitute component in the order. Therefore, you acquire an order that contains one substitute component at most. You can transfer this order to SAP R/3.

    Note Note

    You cannot convert an order with a multiple substitution into an order with a single substitution by deleting a component item in the order. If you delete a component from an in-house production order, the system sets the quantity of the item to zero. However, the item with the quantity 0 is retained.

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