Supply Chain Management with APO

11.1 Master Data for Distribution Planning 209
The ‘product specific means of transport’-view contains optional entries,
for example for the transport resource capacity consumption or the product
specific costs and the lot sizes for the optimiser.
The ‘product specific means of transport’-view can not be maintained
for the selection ‘all products’, but either for individual products or for a
mass selection.
• Transport Resource
The prerequisite for using a resource as transport resource in the transportation
lane is that it has the type ‘T’. Either bucket, single mixed, multi
mixed or scheduling resources can be assigned. If a transport resource is
assigned to the transportation lane, the weights and measures in the product
master (‘attributes’-view) have to be maintained. Figure 11.2 shows the
capacity consumption for a transport resource. Capacity is only consumed
if the according entries exist in the ‘product specific means of transport’view.
If PP/DS is used for distribution planning, a transport resource is
necessary for correct scheduling.
Transportation Lane
Product
Means of Transport
Transport Duration
72 h
Transport Resource
TRANRES
Resource
Bucket Capacity
10 m 3
Capacity
10 m3 8 m3 Fig. 11.2. Transport resource capacity requirements
Prod. Spec. Means of Transport
Consumption
1 l
Stock Transfer
Order 8000 PC
If stock transfers have to be scheduled by the PP/DS optimiser, a multimixed
resource has to be used as transport resource.
Time