Combined Procurement

All products of some product families need to be procured at the same time regardless of whether there is immediate demand for each product or not. In this case, the system should look at future demand of all productsin the product-family and order an appropriate quantity of each product. We will discuss how the system uses VCLO in the planning process.

DRP

DRP determines the new demands of all locations in your BOD, rounds them and aggregates them along the BOD to the entry location. On the basis of this DRP creates scheduling agreement delivery schedule lines and purchase orders.

• Consolidated ordering is allowed by VLCO. If you want to consider a location product in VLCO, you can specify this in the location product master on the SPP DRP tab.
• DRP considers supplier shutdowns such as vacation time, during planning. Before DRP creates a replenishment plan, it checks whether you have stored supplier shutdowns for the location product.

Processses in DRP

DRP in SPP goes through a number of processes that range from calculating the unrounded net demand to performing backwards scheduling to creating stock transport requisitions, scheduling agreements and purchase reqs.

Screen Shots of DRP Setup

The screen shot below is the forecast profile.

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We simply want to make sure we have a seasonal forecast strategy applied. After we have verified this, we want to check our DRP service profile to be sure the indicator is set for using Pre-Season Safety Stock Shift

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We will select he GLOBAL_DEFAULT and make sure the Pre-Season Safety Stock Shift indicator is selected.

We have a desire to adjust the supply chain fulfillment for a temporary supplier shutdown. In anticipation of this we will want to display the parameters for safety stock shift in configuration. How many periods will the safety stock shift for products whose costs is less than 100?

Lets goto define parameters for pre season safety stock shifts.

Let’s enter a value.

Now we want to check the product master for T-SPF105 at location SPCW to be sure the “No SFT” Shift indicator is not set.

Now we want to prepare for the fact that we have a supplier shutdown. We want 60% of our demand during the shutdown to be delivered 2 weeks prior to the shutdown. and 40% delivered the week prior. We will use the following transaction.

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Here we will create our two delivery periods.

This will make the necessary adjustments to the supply plan. After we know the supplier shutdown is planned to change, we can remove this configuration.

Then we want to assign the showdown to the product location.

Now we want to goto the PSM and run DRP.

That is it. This will now change the output of the DRP run based on our adjustment.