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Deployment and the inventory balancing service create stock transport orders to distribute incoming goods between the locations in your bill of distribution (BOD).

In doing so, deployment considers the lead times of a product depending on the scheduling scenario and on whether you plan to supply a location with push or pull deployment.

Note Note

Since distribution requirements planning (DRP) plans with periods of one day that begin at 00:00 but deployment creates stock transport orders with the current time, these stock transport orders may not cover the demand within the replenishment lead time. (If DRP plans a location product with a replenishment lead time of 48 hours on February 5, 2008, the replenishment lead time ends on February 6, 2008 at 23:59. If deployment creates a stock transport order with a lead time of 48 hours on February 5, 2008 at 09:00, the stock transport order lies outside the DRP replenishment lead time.) In this case, DRP does not take into account the deployment stock transport order for covering the demand within the replenishment lead time and deployment generates the same stock transport order again during the next run.

To avoid this, you can do the following:

  • In the service profile for deployment, you can specify that DRP should take into account all stock transport orders (including those outside the replenishment lead time) in the DRP Matrix Overdue column.

  • You ensure that the replenishment lead time used by DRP for planning is longer than the replenishment lead time that deployment uses to create stock transport orders. If you work with component lead times, you can do this by specifying at least 24 hours as the plan approval and review time for deployment. If you work with the total lead time, you can do this by specifying that the total lead time is at least 24 hours longer than the stock transfer time.

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Features

You can choose whether you want to work with the total lead time or with component lead times. If you have specified that you want to work with the total lead time, the system chooses the total lead time for all of the scheduling scenarios described below in which your supplier is not involved. In all other cases the system plans with the component lead times below.

For more information about the total lead time and the settings relevant for it, see Procurement Lead Times in Service Parts Planning in the section Total Procurement Lead Time.

You can see the scheduling scenarios and the lead time components assigned to them in Customizing under   Advanced Planning and Optimization   Supply Chain Planning   Service Parts Planning (SPP)   Basic Settings   Configure Scheduling  .

Scheduling Scenarios Using Total Procurement Lead Time

The following scheduling scenarios use the total procurement lead time:

  • Deployment: Total Stock Transfer Time (Push)

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time component:

    • Deployment Total Stock Transfer Time (Push)

  • Deployment: Total Stock Transfer Time (Pull)

    This scheduling scenario is used in pull deployment. It comprises the following lead time component:

    • Deployment Total Stock Transfer Time (Pull)

Scheduling Scenarios Using Component Procurement Lead Time

The following scheduling scenarios use component lead times:

  • Deployment: Supplier to Location

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Transport Duration

    • Synchronization for Start of Goods Receipt

    • Goods Receipt Processing Time; Ship-To Location

  • Deployment: Supplier to Contract Packager

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Transport Duration

    • Synchronization for Start of Goods Receipt

    For more information about CPs, see Contract Packager.

  • Deployment: Location to Location (Push)

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Throughput Time; Ship-From Location

    • Transport Duration

    • Goods Receipt Processing Time; Ship-To Location

  • Deployment: Location to Location (Pull)

    This scheduling scenario is used in pull deployment and inventory balancing. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Goods Issue Processing Time; Ship-From Location

    • Transport Duration

    • Goods Receipt Processing Time; Ship-To Location

  • Deployment: Location to Contract Packager (Push)

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Throughput Time; Ship-From Location

    • Transport Duration

  • Deployment: Location to Contract Packager (Pull)

    This scheduling scenario is used in pull deployment and inventory balancing. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Goods Issue Processing Time; Ship-From Location

    • Transport Duration

  • Deployment: Contract Packager to Contract Packager (Push)

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Throughput Time; Ship-From Location

    • Transport Duration

  • Deployment: Contract Packager to Location (Push)

    This scheduling scenario is used in push deployment. It comprises the following lead time components:

    • Throughput Time; Ship-From Location

    • Transport Duration

    • Goods Receipt Processing Time; Ship-To Location