Symptom
You have two different Sites where you store your Stock. You operate Site A as your main site and from there you ship Products to your customers. While Site B functions only as a storage location. Now you are looking for a way you can utilize the Stock levels of both Sites within your Material Planning run, so that when there is a Demand the following is executed:
- When there is no stock available at Site A, an Availability check is triggered for the stock at Site B.
- You want the system to create stock transfer proposals or purchase proposals from Site B to A based on your setting.
Environment
SAP Business ByDesign
Reproducing the Issue
- Navigate to the Supply Planning work center.
- Go to the Products view.
- Find and select the relevant Product.
- You can see the Product is assigned to the Sites A and B.
- Select the Row with Site A.
- Click the Open button to open the Product Planning Details screen.
- You can see there is a Demand, but the Available Quantity is not sufficient.
- Click Run Planning, and then choose Single BoM Level or Multi BoM Level.
- Now you expect that the system creates Stock Transfer Proposals or Purchase Proposals based on your setting.
Resolution
The system does not consider whether there is sufficient stock at site B. As long as there is a valid transport lane from B to A, the system would create stock transfer proposals instead of purchase proposals. In order to create a purchase proposal, you need to block the corresponding transport lane.
Keywords
ATP, MRP, Multiple, Location, Planning Area, Stock Transfer Proposals, Purchase Proposals, Production Proposals, Priority, Source, Supply , KBA , AP-SDM-MRP , Material Requirements Planning , AP-CR-CR , Customer Requirement , How To