We are exploring Capacity leveling with optimization method. from the SAP help documentation, it is understood that Optimizer generates the cost based on the procurement priority maintained in the cost.
Excerpt from SAP Help:
"Optimization-Based Capacity Leveling
The system considers the alternative resources according to the
procurement priority of the PPMs or PDS. The system automatically
converts this priority into costs, so that PPMs or PDS with higher
priorities are considered first. The costs of the original resource are
defined by the system as lower than the costs of the alternative
resources, so that this resource always has the highest priority for
the
optimizer and so that the system uses it completely first."
Base on the info, we setup the PPM master data.In my scenario, we have a product that can be produced on 5 different work centers so i created 5 PPM and assigned different proc priority codes like 1, 5, 10, 15, 20. PPM with priority code 1 is primary resource and rest are alternative.
Expectation was that when CL-OPT is run, Optimizer would generate costs as per the priority codes where 1 is higher priority so lowest cost and rest would be incremental higher cost.Which would drive the leveling of the resource load.
But the fact is optimizer created lower cost 250 for priority 1 PPM and 500 for rest of the PPMs.
I would like to understand, is this the correct behavior as it does not align with the SAP help document and we are not able to get appropriate results.
Regards,
Harshil Desai