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APO_ATP_KGRP - Maintain Product Allocation Group

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You maintain the product allocation group in this step. A product allocation group defines a group of characteristics. These characteristics come from the field catalog.

Transportation characteristics can be used in transportation planning.

The product allocation group is used for saving product allocation quantities and their assignments. Using a characteristics combination (the values of characteristics from the current sales order), a product allocation time series, against which the check is executed, is chosen for product allocations. A product allocation group consists of a period and the following:

• Characteristics

Information suitable for selecting a product allocation (for example, purchasing organization or sales organization). The characteristic 'Product allocations object' must be the first characteristic in each product allocation group. Characteristics map the criteria for assignment.

• Key figures

Information that is saved for a combination of characteristic values. Key figures are the product allocation quantity (KCQTY the quantity offered in a period) and the incoming orders quantity (AEMENGE the product allocation quantities of a period that have already been assigned). Key figures are determined in the system and cannot be extended.

The settings that you can make for the product allocation group include the following:

• Communication structure

The communication structure determines the hierarchy level of the sales order (header, item or schedule line), from which the check date is used for product allocations. Only the schedule line level is currently supported.

• Check date

The check date is the date on which checking is executed in product allocations. Possible check dates include the material availability date, the goods issue date and the delivery date. The check date is used for selecting periods with the product allocation quantities. The check date is the start of the consumption period. The consumption period situation is determined anew for each product allocations step of the product allocations procedure, and for the schedule line of the sales order.

• Time buckets profile

Indicator that specifies in which periods the key figures (quantities, product allocation quantities or capacity) are managed (for example, daily, weekly, monthly posting periods).

The product allocation is chosen by a characteristics combination. The values of the characteristics combination are copied from the sales order to the availability check. If the characteristics combination does not exist in the characteristics directory, the system searches for a collective product allocation using the wildcard character. The structure /SAPAPO/KOMGO contains the maximum quantity of allowed characteristics that can be used for rules-based ATP and for product allocations. The field catalog includes the used characteristics.

The item determines the characteristics sequence in the product allocation group. The sequence is used for displaying characteristics and for searching for collective product allocations. The characteristics are displayed by item in ascending order. Characteristics without items are displayed in alphabetical order at the end. Using the wildcard character, the characteristics are filled by item in reverse order when searching for collective product allocations. Characteristics without items are not taken into account by the system when searching for collective product allocations. The product allocations object must be the first characteristic in the product allocation group. The product allocations object is not taken into account by the system when searching for collective product allocations.

Consumption periods consist of the number of past (backward consumption period) and future (forward consumption period) periods:

• Backward consumption period

The number of periods before the product allocations check date from the sales order that can be used to calculate the current product allocation quantity. Unused product allocation quantities in these periods are cumulated before checking product allocations for the current period.

• Forward consumption period

The number of periods after the product allocations check date from the sales order that can be used for the current consumption period. The schedule lines with the confirmed quantities are postponed by product allocations at the latest until the specified period. The period category (day, week, month and posting periods) is defined in the settings for the product allocation group. If you have set the Without past period indicator, product allocations from past periods (before today) are not used - even if they lie in the consumption period.

Consumption periods can be used as follows:

Past periods	Future periods	Results
999	999	Unlimited consumption
999	0	Unlimited cumulation of unused quantities from past periods and
	no future product allocation quantities
0	999	No cumulation of unused product allocation quantities
	from past periods, unlimited future product allocation quantities. This is an old product allocations method.

The functionality of the consumption period is not available for the old product allocations method.

 

The check date and consumption period are determined per product allocation group. The product allocation group can be used in different product allocations procedures, but the settings for consumption always remain the same.

 

1. Choose New entries.
2. Enter a product allocation group.
3. Using the input help (F4), choose the communication structure. You can choose from the following check dates: (Note that the external key check for the communication structure and the check date occur together, if you enter the values explicitly - otherwise, you receive an error message)

• Delivery date

• Material availability date

• Goods issue date

1. Using the input help (F4), choose the time buckets profile.
2. The fiscal year is determined in the FY variant field. Using the fiscal year variant, you define

• How many posting periods exist in a fiscal year

• How many special periods you need

• How the system should determine the posting periods when posting.

1. Choose F3. A message appears indicating that you need to check object validities when changing the period category. You may ignore this message when creating a period category.
2. Choose Enter.

 

When you save your entries in this step, a message appears indicating that errors have occurred when generating internal objects. This message appears because you still have not maintained any characteristics for the product allocation group. The product allocation object must always be the first characteristic. Choose Enter.

1. Choose Characteristics. You get the message that no entries exist. You can ignore this message when creating.
2. Choose New entries.
3. Using the input help (F4), choose the characteristics and their sequence. Note that the product allocations object must always be the first characteristic.
4. Choose Consumption period.
5. Choose New entries.
6. Using the input help (F4), choose the product allocation group and define the consumption periods.
7. Save your entries.

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