Supply Chain Management with APO

PART III – ORDER FULFILMENT
Contents ix
6 Order Fulfilment Overview ................................................................. 97
7 Sales ................................................................................................. 99
7.1 Sales Order Entry........................................................................... 99
7.2 Availability Check Overview ...................................................... 100
7.2.1 Functionality Overview for the Availability Check ........... 100
7.2.2 ATP Functionality for Document Types ............................ 101
7.3 Master Data and Configuration ................................................... 104
7.3.1 Master Data for ATP .......................................................... 104
7.3.2 Basic ATP Configuration ................................................... 105
7.3.3 Time Buckets and Time Zones........................................... 107
7.4 Product Availability Check.......................................................... 109
7.4.1 Product Availability Check Logic ...................................... 109
7.4.2 Product Availability Check Configuration ......................... 111
7.5 Allocations................................................................................... 114
7.5.1 Business Background and Implications.............................. 114
7.5.2 Configuration of the Allocation Check .............................. 116
7.5.3 Allocation Maintenance and Connection to DP ................. 120
7.5.4 Collective Product Allocations........................................... 121
7.6 Forecast Check ............................................................................ 121
7.7 Rules-Based ATP......................................................................... 122
7.8 Transportation and Shipment Scheduling.................................... 132
7.9 Backorder Processing .................................................................. 134
8 Transportation Planning..................................................................... 145
8.1 Transportation Planning Overview.............................................. 145
8.2 Master Data and Configuration ................................................... 147
8.2.1 Master Data for TP/VS....................................................... 147
8.2.2 Geo-Coding ........................................................................ 152
8.2.3 Configuration of the CIF .................................................... 154
8.3 TP/VS Planning Board ................................................................ 154
8.4 TP/VS Optimisation..................................................................... 156
8.5 Scheduling ................................................................................... 159
8.6 Carrier Selection .......................................................................... 160
8.7 Collaboration ............................................................................... 161
8.8 Release and Transfer to SAP ERP........................................... 162
8.9 Dynamic Route Determination .................................................... 162