Lesson: Make-to-Order Production
Exercise 6: Make-to Order Production in APO-PP/DS
Exercise Objectives
After completing this exercise, you will be able to:
• Plan make-to-order production using APO-PP/DS
Business Example
For special sales orders, the production of pump T-F2## is planned in make-to-order production.
You will change the ECC strategy group accordingly and then enter an individual sales order for planning in APO.
Task 1:
In the ECC material master, enter a strategy group that allows for make-to-order production in addition to planning with final assembly:
1. First, go to the settings of the ECC strategy group in Customizing for Demand Management. Display the details of strategy group 41. What are the main and alternative strategies?
Main strategy: __________________
Alternative strategy: __________________
Alternative strategy: __________________
Can you use strategy group 41 to execute planning as desired?
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2. Change the ECC material master for pump T-F2## in plant 1000. Select the MRP3 view. Enter strategy group 41. Does this change the main strategy?
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Save the material master.
Do you need to transfer the change you have just made to the corresponding APO product master? Why (not)?
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Task 2:
A customer orders 2 pumps for the current week + 2. This sales order is to be planned in make-to-order production. To simplify matters, the order should be entered in the form of a relevant customer requirement:
1. In ECC, start the Create Customer Requirements transaction. On the initial screen, enter Delivering plant 1000 again and choose Enter to confirm this.
On the following entry screen, enter the Desired delivery date as the third day of the current week +2. Choose Enter again to confirm this and create a customer requirements item containing the following data:
Material: T-F2##
Order quantity: 2 PC
Choose Enter to confirm your entries.
Hint: Do not yet save the customer requirement.
The requirements type KSV is determined again. Change the requirements type using the input help (F4) for the “Requirements type” field. Which requirements types can be selected?
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Enter the requirements type KE (“Individual customer order without consumption”) and Save the customer requirement.
2. Display the APO Product View for the pump T-F2## in plant 1000 (access the list again). Is the customer requirement that you have just created now displayed?
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Take note of the customer requirement number: __________________
Does the customer requirement consume the planned independent requirements? Why (not)?
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3. In the Product View, go to the display of the make-to-order segment for the customer requirement you have just created. Switch to Change mode and plan the requirement using the Product heuristic.
Has a planned order been created for the make-to-order segment?
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SCM250 Lesson: Make-to-Order Production
Is this order included in the requirements calculation in the make-to-stock segment?
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Save the planning and refresh the product view until the planned order acquires its final number in the individual customer segment.
Take note of the number of the planned order:
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Task 3:
Finally, check the requirements situation for assemblies T-B1## and T-B3##
in plant 1000.
1. First, look at the Product View for assembly T-B1##. Has a dependent requirement been created for the planned order in the individual customer segment? (Use the planned order number that you noted above to answer the question.)
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Is this dependent requirement in an individual customer segment? Which setting in the product master is responsible for this? (You can access the product master directly from the product view.)
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2. Look at the Product View for assembly T-B3##. Has a dependent requirement also been created here for the planned order in the individual customer segment?
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Is this dependent requirement in an individual customer segment? Which setting in the product master is responsible for this?
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3. You have just determined that the dependent requirements are planned differently, due to the settings in the product master. Do these settings originate in the corresponding ECC material masters? If so, which indicator controls the corresponding behavior in ECC?
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Solution 6: Make-to Order Production in APO-PP/DS
Task 1:
In the ECC material master, enter a strategy group that allows for make-to-order production in addition to planning with final assembly:
1. First, go to the settings of the ECC strategy group in Customizing for Demand Management. Display the details of strategy group 41. What are the main and alternative strategies?
Main strategy: __________________
Alternative strategy: __________________
Alternative strategy: __________________
Can you use strategy group 41 to execute planning as desired?
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a) ECC Customizing menu path: Production → Production planning
→ Demand management → Planned independent requirements → Planning strategy → Define strategy group
Main or alternative strategies:
Main strategy: 40 (Planning with final assembly) Alternative strategy: 20 (Make-to-order production) Alternative strategy: 50 (Planning without final assembly) Planning as desired with strategy group 41? Yes, strategy group 41 allows planning as desired because it permits make-to-order production.
2. Change the ECC material master for pump T-F2## in plant 1000. Select the MRP3 view. Enter strategy group 41. Does this change the main strategy?
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Save the material master.
Do you need to transfer the change you have just made to the corresponding APO product master? Why (not)?
SCM250 Lesson: Make-to-Order Production
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a) ECC menu path: Logistics → Production → Master Data → Material Master → Material → Change → Immediately
Does the main strategy change? No, it does not change.
Transfer change to APO? No, the change does not have to be transferred to APO because the main strategy has not changed.
Task 2:
A customer orders 2 pumps for the current week + 2. This sales order is to be planned in make-to-order production. To simplify matters, the order should be entered in the form of a relevant customer requirement:
1. In ECC, start the Create Customer Requirements transaction. On the initial screen, enter Delivering plant 1000 again and choose Enter to confirm this.
On the following entry screen, enter the Desired delivery date as the third day of the current week +2. Choose Enter again to confirm this and create a customer requirements item containing the following data:
Material: T-F2##
Order quantity: 2 PC
Choose Enter to confirm your entries.
Hint: Do not yet save the customer requirement.
The requirements type KSV is determined again. Change the requirements type using the input help (F4) for the “Requirements type” field. Which requirements types can be selected?
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Enter the requirements type KE (“Individual customer order without consumption”) and Save the customer requirement.
a) ECC menu path: Logistics → Production → Production Planning → Demand Management → Customer Requirements → Create
Requirements types: The requirements types KSV, KE, KEV (from the strategy group) and 021 are available.
2. Display the APO Product View for the pump T-F2## in plant 1000 (access the list again). Is the customer requirement that you have just created now displayed?
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Take note of the customer requirement number: __________________
Does the customer requirement consume the planned independent requirements? Why (not)?
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a) Customer requirement displayed? Yes, the customer requirement is displayed in an individual customer segment.
Customer requirement number: This varies, for example, 50000034.
Consumption? No, the customer requirement is not involved in consumption because its requirements type or its check mode does not allow for consumption.
3. In the Product View, go to the display of the make-to-order segment for the customer requirement you have just created. Switch to Change mode and plan the requirement using the Product heuristic.
Has a planned order been created for the make-to-order segment?
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Is this order included in the requirements calculation in the make-to-stock segment?
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Save the planning and refresh the product view until the planned order acquires its final number in the individual customer segment.
Take note of the number of the planned order:
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a) Is a planned order created for the individual customer segment? Yes, a planned order is created.
Requirements calculation in the make-to-stock segment? No, this order is not included in the requirements calculation of the make-to-stock segment.
Planned order number: This varies, for example, 29835.
Task 3:
Finally, check the requirements situation for assemblies T-B1## and T-B3##
in plant 1000.
1. First, look at the Product View for assembly T-B1##. Has a dependent requirement been created for the planned order in the individual customer segment? (Use the planned order number that you noted above to answer the question.)
SCM250 Lesson: Make-to-Order Production
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Is this dependent requirement in an individual customer segment? Which setting in the product master is responsible for this? (You can access the product master directly from the product view.)
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a) Dependent requirement created? Yes, a dependent requirement was created.
Dependent requirement in the individual customer segment? No, the dependent requirement is in the make-to-stock segment, since the “Always collective” requirement setting has been made for dependent requirements in the product master (on the Demand tab page).
2. Look at the Product View for assembly T-B3##. Has a dependent requirement also been created here for the planned order in the individual customer segment?
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Is this dependent requirement in an individual customer segment? Which setting in the product master is responsible for this?
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a) Dependent requirement created? Yes, a dependent requirement was created here also.
Dependent requirement in the make-to-order segment?: Yes, the dependent requirement is in the make-to-order segment, since the setting “Poss. individual customer reqmts” has been made for dependent requirements in the product master (Demand tab page).
3. You have just determined that the dependent requirements are planned differently, due to the settings in the product master. Do these settings originate in the corresponding ECC material masters? If so, which indicator controls the corresponding behavior in ECC?
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a) ECC material masters setting? Yes, this setting is transferred from the ECC material masters. It is made in ECC using the Individual/collective indicator in the MRP4 view.
Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
• Configure and monitor the interplay of the independent requirements in the make-to-order production strategies
SCM250 Lesson: Enhancements for Demand Management