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Background documentationSettings for Replenishment Planning

 

Which planning services and which replenishment monitor you use, depends on the concrete business scenario. We deliver standard settings for the planning services and replenishment monitors. You can make other settings for replenishment planning, in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Replenishment. You can make the settings on the level of the following characteristics:

  • Customer location

  • Product

  • Supplier

The central Customizing activity is found under Start of the navigation path Replenishment Next navigation step Assign Settings Next navigation step Assign Settings for Replenishment Planning and SNI End of the navigation path. In this Customizing activity, you enter all the profiles for the different replenishment planning services and make settings for individual functions. If you do not make any settings, the system uses the standard settings. You can change selected settings on the Web user interface (Web UI).

Customizing Settings for Planning Functions and Services

The settings in Customizing pertain to the following functions:

  • Calculation of the projected stock

    How does the system calculate the projected stock, in other words, which receipts, stocks, and demands are considered (setting in the profile for projected stock)? For more information, see Calculation of Projected Stock.

  • Calculation of average demands

    This function is only relevant for the SMI Monitor and the Min/Max Replenishment Monitor. These monitors display the Average Demand key figure. You can configure which method the system uses to calculate the average demands, and for which horizon the system creates average demands. You can also change these settings interactively on the Web UI. For more information, see Calculation of Average Demand.

  • Replenishment service

    For the replenishment services, you make settings for the following questions:

    • Which replenishment service profile does the system use by default in the replenishment monitor or in the PSM run?

    • For which horizon does the replenishment service propose planned receipts?

    • Which replenishment method does the system use to calculate raw net demands for (baseline) demands (setting in the replenishment service profile)?

    • Does the system save planned receipts as time series or as planned replenishment orders (setting in the replenishment service profile)?

    • Does the replenishment service delete the existing planned receipts prior to a planning run? You can change this setting on the Web UI in the monitor settings.

    For more information, see Replenishment Service.

  • TLB Service and services for the creation of replenishment orders

    Which TLB profile does the system use by default in the RR Monitor or in the PSM run? The TLB service profile is also relevant for the services for creating replenishment orders. You can use these services in the Min/Max Replenishment planning and in RR planning. For more information, see Transport Load Builder and Creation of Replenishment Orders.

  • Deployment

    Which deployment service profile does the system use by default in the replenishment monitor or in the PSM run? For more information, see Deployment.

Calculation of Raw Net Demands

For the calculation of raw net demands, different stock parameters from the location product master are relevant (for example, the safety stock or the maximum stock). For more information, see Replenishment Method.

Scheduling

The replenishment service uses the scheduling to determine the availability dates/times of planned receipts. You can determine which scheduling schema the service uses. In addition, you determine the execution times and the calendar for the delivery-relevant activities. For more information, see Scheduling of Planned Receipts.

Define Base Date for Replenishment Planning in Supplier Managed Inventory (SMI)

By default, it is the availability date that the scheduling considers for the supplier to plan the replenishment. You can also decide to use the delivery date as the base date for replenishment planning. You can set that the replenishment planning is based on delivery date for combinations of supplier, customer location, and product.

Caution Caution

To avoid the replenishment monitors displaying false uncovered demand, SAP recommends changing the setting for the base date for replenishment planning for suppliers and customer location products that have no open published replenishment orders and ASNs.

In case already published replenishment orders or ASNs exist for the given supplier and customer location product, execute the following steps:

  1. Execute the Delete Time Series Data (/SCA/TSDM_TS_DELETE) report for the INVM1 time series type and the FIRMDEMAND key figure.

  2. Run the Transfer Stocks and Requirements to SAP ICH/SNC (RSMIPROACT) report or the Transfer Stocks and Demands to SAP SNC/ICH 5.0 (RSMIPROACT2) report to transfer the demand data from SAP ERP to SAP SNC.

  3. To delete the unpublished orders, execute the deletion service (REPL_DELETE_SERVICE).

In case demand data already existed for the supplier and customer location product when you specified the delivery date as the base date for replenishment planning, the relevant demand data is offset to the delivery date. However, the system cannot offset the replenishment orders and ASNs that have been already published when you changed this setting. The system considers these orders and ASNs for replenishment planning on their availability dates. Therefore, the replenishment monitor displays uncovered demand during the transition period for these suppliers and customer location products. This issue persists until the replenishment orders and ASNs that have been published before you changed this setting are closed.

End of the caution.
Change Mode for Web Screens of Replenishment Monitors and TLB

In the standard system, the Web screens of the replenishment monitors and the TLB Shipments screen are only available in the change mode. Depending on the replenishment variant, you can edit data on one screen (manually or using planning services), and then, without saving the data first, navigate to another related Web screen and edit the same data there. This can cause inconsistent planning data. We therefore recommend to restrict the change mode so that only one Web screen is allowed to be in the change mode at a time. You make the setting in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Start of the navigation path Replenishment Next navigation step Web UI Next navigation step Restrict Change Mode for Web Screens of Replenishment Planning and TLB End of the navigation path.

Visible Time Period and Period Division

In the time buckets profile that you can call up in the Web menu, you can configure the visible time period and the period divisions for the replenishment monitor. For more information, see Defining Time Buckets Profiles.

Visible Customer Location Products

In the standard system, the Partner-Dependent Network Filter (PDNF_NEW) selection mode controls the locations and products that can be seen by the customer and supplier in the replenishment monitors. You can change the selection mode in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Start of the navigation path Basic Settings Next navigation step Visibility Next navigation step Create Selection Modes End of the navigation path. For more information, see Partner-Dependent Network Filter. You can use the scenario control to control which customer location products are visible in the replenishment monitor. For more information, see Scenario Control.

Data Selection

If a user only wants to display the data in the replenishment monitor that is relevant for that user, create user-specific and business partner-specific selections in selection management.

Alert Notification

If you only want to call the replenishment monitor when an alert occurs, set up alert notification.