We are implementing supply planning and we have 9 manufacturing plants and 20 DCs (There is NO multi-sourcing and 1 product is produced only at one plant). We are running Heuristics which provides us unconstrained supply plan, and then we use adjusted production key figures to make the supply plan feasible and balance the resource capacity load.
Now we have some questions to support this process.
- How we can take supply planning run separately for each manufacturing plants. (As timing of their planning cycle can differ from each other), can we use Planning Unit concept or is there any other better way to manage this
- Once the Supply planning run is completed, users will review the capacity load and will level the load by using “adjusted production” key figure, Then they would like to re-plan this product so adjusted production KF can overwrite the “Production Receipt” key figure and provide a feasible plan, but ideally the re-planning should be restricted only to selected products where adjustment has been made and there is no need to re-plan all the products again. How we do achieve this? Can we use planning Unit again but in that case there will be too many planning units if we create one for each product. Is there any better way to manage re-planning part.
- Supply planner needs to take supply planning run on their own, but we don’t want them to trigger the supply planning run for another plant which is managed by a different supply planner so how we can restrict supply planner role to take supply planning run only for their plants.
- How do we reset the adjustment key figures, when we move to the next planning cycle and would like to start planning afresh.
Thanks
Girish
