Hi,
As I understand it, for a subcontracting Purchase Req the item category 'L' should be use to trigger the BOM explosion.
The issue I have here is that I cannot get APO to set this 'L' Category. The situation is as below:
- Subcontracted Finished good demand is STR distribution demand from another location. (PReqRel)
- Master data is: MRP type PD, Special procurement type 30 and procurement type F
We run SNP Heuristics for the plant and it creates supply for the demand, the supply created by Heuristics is a PurReq.
This PurReq is passed to ECC and is seen in MD04 but has no item category populated and therefore no BOM explosion.
When I re-test the same scenario but rather than running heuristics in APO, I run ECC MRP against the original PReqRel demand, MRP creates the PurReq's to meet demand and these correctly have the item category 'L'. and therefore component SUBREQs are created.
So the problem I hope the forum can help with is:
Why can I not get APO created PurReq's to have the item category of L automatically assigned? what settings in APO are needed? As you can see above the master data seems to be correct and allows MRP to assign 'L'. So what is APO missing? Why can MRP do it and not APO?
S SB