Hello everyone,
We are facing an issue in handling reduction (Consumption of forecast after PGI of a Sales Order PGI) in APO for a unique business scenario. I would like to check with experts in SDN community about their experience of handling below scenario.
Business scenario and settings:
We use MRP strategy 10, with consumption mode 2 and backward and forward consumption periods. This enables consumption of forecast based on Sales order PGIs.
We release forecast from DP monthly bucket to Weekly buckets in SNP.
STEP 1
DP Monthly CDP 100
W1 W2 W3 W4
SNP weekly FCST 25 25 25 25 - (If we do PGI of 60, beginning of week 1),
Reduction will be 25 25 10
[Remaining Consensus Demand Plan (CDP) will be 40]
Above Scenario will translate into DP_SCHED table as three entries.
Reduction CDP
25 25
25 25
25 10
STEP 2
We have business process of adjusting forecast in current month as well using a KF called "Off cycle adjustments"
Say the new DP Monthly CDP is 80 -> (An off-cycle entry of -20 will reduce initial CDP of 100 to 80)
W1 W2 W3 W4
SNP weekly FCST 20 20 20 20 -> (Now if the same PGI of 60 stays),
Reduction will be 25 25 10
Remaining Forecast that APO shows will 30, Where as in reality it is just 20.
Even after above changes, the entries will remain same in DP_SCHED table as three entries (DP head is constant)
Reduction CDP
25 25
25 25
25 10
PGI reduction seems to be one time call as soon as PGI happens /Reversals happen based on /SAPAPO/CIF_IRQ_REDUCT_INBOUND.
SAP response is that Forecast changes in SNP for reduction using PGI will create inconsistences and SAP does not support it
Any suggestions on handling such scenarios will be appreciated.
Thanks in anticipation.