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Planning with Shelf Life Data in PP/DS

Purpose
This process describes how you plan procurement proposals for products in Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS), taking account of shelf life conditions.

Prerequisites
x x You use an SAP R/3 system and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) from SAP APO. To be able to transfer the shelf life data of products, stocks, and sales orders from SAP R/3 to SAP APO, you must have defined CDP as the class system in Customizing for SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) under Basis Settings o Define Class System (CDP or Classical Characteristics). (valid as of SAP R/3 4.6), and 483576. For more information, see Data. x x Integration of Master and Transaction

You have maintained the shelf life data for each relevant product in the SAP APO product master and set the Plng w/ shelf life indicator. The Global ATP component does not support planning with shelf life conditions. For that reason, you cannot use this process within a scenario with a Capable-to-Promise (CTP) process or with multilevel ATP (MATP).

Process Flow
The following graphic provides an overview of the process:

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You transfer products, stocks, and requirements from the SAP R/3 system to the SAP APO system. The SAP APO system uses the transferred shelf life data (stocks and requirements) or the shelf life data from the product master. 2. You perform planning using various PP/DS applications. First you create procurement proposals using a heuristic for planning standard lots, taking the shelf life conditions into account. You have the following options: { If you execute the heuristic using an infinite detailed scheduling strategy, the procurement proposals do not violate any shelf life conditions, but may create resource overloads. You then use the PP/DS optimization, for example, to optimize the resource schedule while taking shelf life conditions into account. { If you execute the heuristic using a finite detailed scheduling strategy, the procurement proposals may violate shelf life conditions. To remove the planning problems, plan interactively using push production or the detailed scheduling planning board (DS planning board). 3. You transfer the procurement proposals to the SAP R/3 system

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A pegging relationship created in SAP APO between a requirements element and a receipt element, taking account of the shelf life conditions, is unknown in SAP R/3.

See also

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SAP note 563863

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