ISBN: 3540257810
TITLE: Characteristic Based...
AUTHOR: Dickersbach
TOC: 

1 Motivation for Planning with Characteristics 1
2 Characteristic Based Planning Overview 3
2.1 Process Overview 3
2.2 Scenarios for Characteristic Based Planning 5
2.3 System Configuration Determinants 10
2.4 Functions for Characteristic Based Planning in APO 13
2.5 Process Variants and their Usage in the Scenarios 15
3 Characteristics and Classes 19
3.1 Characteristics and Classes in R/3 19
3.2 Transfer of Characteristics and Classes to APO 22
4 Configuration Scheme in APO 25
5 Make-to-Order with Variant Configuration 27
5.1 Scenario Description 27
5.1.1 Process Chain 27
5.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 29
5.1.3 Configurable Material 30
5.1.4 Configuration Profile 30
5.2 Variant Configuration in the Sales Order 31
5.3 Object Dependencies 34
5.3.1 Structure and Usage of Object Dependencies 34
5.3.2 Selection Conditions 38
5.3.3 Procedures 38
5.3.4 Procedures with Reference Characteristics 39
5.3.5 Variant Functions 42
5.4 Multi-Level Configuration 44
5.5 Configuration via Material Class 46
5.6 Material Variants 47
5.7 Configurable Material Variants 50
5.8 Variant Tables 52
6 Make-to-Order with VC and Demand Planning 55
6.1 Make-to-Order with VC and Demand Planning Overview 55
6.2 Characteristic Based Forecasting 56
6.3 Forecast Release and Forecast Consumption 60
6.4 Scenario Description for Planning in Inactive Version 65
6.4.1 Process Chain for Planning in Inactive Version 65
6.4.2 System Configuration Determinants 70
6.4.3 Transformation of the Dependent Demand 71
6.4.4 Forecast Consumption by the Dependent Demand 72
6.4.5 Component Logic 74
6.5 Scenario Description for Planning in Active Version 75
6.5.1 Process Chain for Planning in Active Version 75
6.5.2 System Configuration Determinants 79
6.5.3 Forecast Check an Characteristic Level 79
6.5.4 Allocation Check an Characteristic Level 80
6.5.5 Forecast Consumption an Characteristic Level 81
7 Sales from Stock with Characteristics 83
7.1 Scenario Description 83
7.1.1 Process Chain 83
7.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 85
7.2 Batch Selection in the Sales Order 86
7.3 ATP with Characteristics 89
7.3.1 Characteristic View 89
7.3.2 Rules-Based ATP with Characteristic Substitution 90
7.4 Delivery with Characteristics 93
8 Configure-to-Order with Propagation 95
8.1 Scenario Description 95
8.1.1 Process Chain 95
8.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 97
8.2 Characteristic Propagation within the PPM 99
8.3 Block Planning 102
8.3.1 Motivation for Block Definition 102
8.3.2 Block Definition in the Resource 103
8.3.3 Activity Valuation 106
8.3.4 Block Planning Functions 109
8.3.5 Assembly Planning Based an Block Definitions 109
8.4 Goods Receipt with Batch Characteristics 111
9 Planning with Shelf Life 113
9.1 Scenario Description 113
9.1.1 Process Chain 113
9.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 114
9.1.3 Shelf Life Settings in the Material Master 115
9.2 Shelf Life Functionality 116
9.3 Characteristics for Shelf Life 118
9.4 Customer Specific Shelf Life Requirements 120
9.5 Production Planning and Scheduling with Shelf Life 124
9.6 Goods Receipt with Shelf Life Characteristics 125
9.7 Shelf Life Alerts 126
10 Sales Order Oriented Planning 129
10.1 Scenario Description 129
10.1.1 Process Chain 129
10.1.2 System Configuration Determinants 131
10.2 Descriptive Characteristics 131
10.3 Forecast Adjustment 133
10.4 Planned Order Conversion with Conversion Rules 135
11 Production Planning and Scheduling 137 11.1 Production Planning with Characteristics 137
11.1 Production Planning with the VC-Configuration 137
11.2 Production Planning with the CDP-Configuration 138
11.2 Detailed Scheduling with Characteristics 140
11.2.1 Impact of Characteristics an Detailed Scheduling 140
11.2.2 Characteristics as Sorting Criteria for Heuristics 141
11.2.3 Characteristics for Set-Up Group Determination 144
11.3 Planned Order Integration 145
11.4 Display of Characteristics in the Product View 147
References 149
Abbreviations 151
Implementation Samples 153
Transactions 157
Index 159
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