Alternate Plant Fulfillment

Greetings!
We have a situation where we have one plant (distribution center) on each coast. We maintain identical parts in each plant. We would like to configure SAP to be able to create a delivery, relieve inventory and ship an order from the east coast plant when the west coast plant is out of stock and vice versa.
Is there a way to do this without APO?
Thank you for your response!

Hi
There is something called as RBA or rules based availability in GATP which can be used to do this - location substitution can define under what condition you can "hop" from one location to another

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Report for planned or prodcution order for production in Alternate plants

Hai gurus,
I have two plants - X and Y
Plant x have finished goods A and B to be produced and procured from plant - Y
plant Y have finished goods C and D to be produced and procured from plant - X
The production in alternate plant concept is used in plant X for Product A and B
The production in alternate plant concept is used in Plant Y for Product C and D.
Now my requirement is how to get the report for the Purchase order raised by the
plant X for the Finished product A and B , also how to know the planned order
and production order with reference to purchase order for Finished product A and B
under plant - Y
and VIce versa for the Finished product C and B in plant X and Y
Waiting for the positive reply.
Regards,
Sekar chand

There are a few reports that you can use to display STO requisitions and orders, by supplying plant, material, or MD04 like was mentioned.
The only thing that you don't have in a report is the link to the production order. In SAP in a MTS situation there's no fixed link (pegging) between the requirement (STO) and the supply (prod Ord).
You can view the pegging dynamically, for example in MD04.
Edited by: Mario Adler on Oct 27, 2011 12:13 PM

Good receipt for Production in alternate plant

Hi,
I have scenario where i have using production in alternate plant. when i do GR in production plant the stock is getting updated in planning plant.
But physical material movement from production plant to planning plant will take 2days.
Is there anyway i can do GR in production plant and then do plant to plant transfer, so that i can ensure there is no mismatch between to physical stock and system stock.
or
is there any other process to overcome this problem.
kindly give a solution..
Thanks and Regards,
Sen

Hi,
SAP Help
Stock Transfer from Plant to Plant
Within the stock transfer procedure, goods are produced and delivered within a company. The plant that is to receive the goods (receiving plant) orders the goods internally from another plant that is in a position to deliver the goods (issuing plant). The dependent requirements for the components to be transferred are determined in the receiving plant.
You use the stock transfer procedure, if two plants are located far away from each other, as the transport of materials to be transferred is taken into account in MRP with this type of procedure
So , pls try with 40 - Stock Transfer from Alt plant . Then , you can use combination of either 303 & 305 or 351 & 101 .With this procedure , there will be no mismatch bw the physical stock and system stock in the receiving plant.
also refer ,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_470/helpdata/en/4d/2b90dc43ad11d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

Material check in alternate plant

Hi friend,
In MTO scenarion I have same (component) material in two different plant within the same client. During MRP run dependent requirement should be checked in the alternate plant's and if material is available reservation should be generated.
Or is it possible to convert planned order generated in plant 1100 be transfered to plant 1200 and also converted to production order.
Pls suggest the solution.
amol

Yes you can do by using the special procuement key in material master for STO from other plant.
Rewards the Point

Bulk Material behaviour in alternate plants

Hi,
how bulk material concept behaves with planning and procurement in different plants with consumption based (VB) in MTO/MTS scenario.what are the conditions to be maintained with Sp procurement key with drawal from alternate plant and stock transfer from alternate plant for bulk materials.
regards
kishore

Hi Kishor,
Bulk material is always consumption based because it is not planned during MRP and not related to costing also. Bulk materials are those which are low cost.
If you are having more than one plants and components required at one plant for finish product is either produced as a finish product in other plant or it is available as a unrestricted stock then you can use special propcurement key for that component.
For production at alternate plant set special procurement key. In BOM assign that component and design key in customisation that u enter plant where it is being produced. Again create a BOM for finish product.
First take MRP run where it is used as a component so that it will create dependent requirement for another plant.Then take MRP run where it is as finish product so that planned order will be produced.
Same as for stock transfer use another key. You have to decide first then assign key.
I think it will help you. Reward pts.
If any problem ask.
Regard,
Suhas

GR for production done in Alternate plant

HI All
In scenario there are 4 plants (say mother plant P1,P2,P3,P4) , All sales order will come to main plant i.e P1 , i have maintained spl proc key 80 In mrp view so that when an order comes the planned order will be created in P1 & and in of P2,P3,P4.
This scenario is working fine
But when comes to GR using MB31 the GR is posting to main plant only(P1) ., it is not posting to their respestive plant FG location ., this is an issue
Pls help me to sort it out
Regards
Anand Srinivasan

Dear Annad,
As per SPK 40. if u run the MRP at Planning plant, based on stock system will create stock transport PR at Planning plant and Rel order for it at Production plant. if there is no enough stock at Production plant it will create planned order for That rel order. It will work as teh same in MTS.
Since i have not tried it, with MTO please Try and update
For more help please Refer below sap link.
[Stock Transfer from Plant to Plant |http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/f4/7d2d5a44af11d182b40000e829fbfe/content.htm]
I hope this will solve your problem
Pradeep

Production of a Component (sub-assly) in alternate plant

Hello All
Am having a scenario wherein X is FG with its sub assly X-SA, & this sub assly X-SA is having two components which are raw materials XR-1 & XR-2. FG X is planned and manufactured in plant 1400, wehreas production of component X-SA is done in plant 1200.
The scenarios is as briefed: components (XR-1 & XR-2) for sub assly (X-SA) is procured in plant 1400 & send to plant 1200 through a challan for further processing to produce X-SA at plant 1200. I am using special procurement key 80 for X-SA, here am facing an issue whenever i run MRP for FG X planned order is created for X in plant 1400, planned order for X-SA is getting created in plant 1200 which is all OK, but in the system purchase requisition for raw materials (XR-1 & XR-2) is not getting created for plant 1400 instead purchase requisitions for these materials are getting created in plant 1200. This shall not be the case with the procurement elements for raw materials XR-1 & XR-2. Kindly guide me to the solution for this issue, am looking forward to your valuable inputs.
Regards,
J K Tharwani

Hi Jitender,
For your components XR-1 & XR-2.
Following scenario would be suitable.
Here your planning plant is 1400 & Ordering plant is 1200.
Please maintain following settings for both the raw materials..
1. For both the raw materials in Plant 1400 Mintain Mixed MRP indicator 1
In Plant 1200, for thse materials put special procurement key "40"
Please follow the link:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/cb/7f9b7043b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm
Hope this helps..
Regards,
Siva

Production in alternate plant

Hi,
There are two plants called as Plant A - Planning plant, B - Production plant.
If I use spl.procurement key 80 in plant A material, when MRP run production process will trigger in Plant B.
While doing GR in plant B, system will update the stock qty in plant A.
Now my problem is while doing GI in plant B, system consuming the stock from plant B, but my requirement is, it has to consume stock from Plant A.
Can we do any configuration in spl.procurement key or Is there any std setting available?
Regards,
Dharma

Dharma,
Please check the configuration of Special Procurement key "80" in your system in transaction OMD9 for Plant A.
You should not have any defination as BOM Component level, I suspect you have activated withdraw from alternative plant and you have an Issuing Plant as Plant B. Or else in the BOM Item level where this material is used a component check whether there is any SPK assigned.
Regards,
Prasobh

Reg production on alternate plants

Dear all,
At my clients place there are 5 production units in which 2 are of CGMP recognised, and separate products are to be manufacture, suppose due to some problem one of the product which is of CGMP nature to be produced in non CGMP plant can we show in system that it is actually produced in CGMP facility due to audit purpose.
please advice
Madhav

From system prespective it can be produced in the plant CGMP & shown as such. Where the actual production takes place I dont think system would be know.
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Ram

Goods Receipt in Production Plant

Hi,
I have a scenario, where the sales order is placed in the sales plant and production happens in production plant. The sales order creates a purchase requisition in the production plant and MRP creates planned orders against the purchase req and the production is carried out by doing a goods receipt in the production plant itself.
I have not used the special procurement key of "Production in alternate plant" for this scenario as I want to do the goods receipt against the production order in production plant itself.
But for the same material if I manually create the production order in production plant and try to do the goods receipt in production plant the system is not allowing me to do this.
The system tries to post the goods receipt directly into the sales plant even though I have not used the "production in alternate plant" sp procurement key.
Can someone tell me how to fix this. I want to receive the goods in production plant itself and then move it to sales plant.
Thanks!

Dear abppp1,
When you are working with this concept Production in alternative plant using special procurement key 80,once after creating
the Goods receipt for the production order the stock in the planning plant will get increased,(and not first in the production plant)
Check this link to understand the concept in detail,
[Production in Alternative plant|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp60_sp/helpdata/en/f4/7d2d7444af11d182b40000e829fbfe/content.htm]
Production In Alternative Plant
Re: prod alt plant
Regards
S Mangalraj

Production in Another plant.

Hi Gurus,
I have A as Planning Plant and plant B as manufacturing plant. I create sales order in Plant A and with reference to that sales order corresponding Plan order should be created in Plant B. Then in plant B production order will be created and all production movements will be carried out.
At the same time all requirements of Plant A such as PIR, Sales Orders etc should be taken care by above production in Plant B. I tried with scenario production in Alternate plant with Sp. Key 40 but it will not act accordingly in case of sales order.
I created Plant A as customer and Plant B as vendor. But it creates Purchase orders only for Plant A and works fine in case of Purchase order scenario. Please guide regarding MTO scenario.
Regards,
Pradeep
Edited by: PRADEEP on Feb 25, 2010 12:37 AM

Hi,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
But can you elaborate regarding what setting in Material Master I need to do for Plannig and Production Plant. How the actual process will flow starting from Sales Order generation till delivery? Whether this Sp. Proc. Key will take care of PIR also?
Regards,
Pradeep

Requirement from other plant.

Hi Gurus,
There are plants A and B. Plant B is in need of service parts. Plant A is also not having stock for same parts then creates Purchase order for some vendor and corresponding requirement is triggered in plant B with reference as Procurement should be carried out in plant B. Plant B then purchase required parts for plant B. How this scenario can be mapped in SAP. Is there any way to map this? Please guide with detail steps.
Regards,
Pradeep

Hi
You can do that with the help of special procurement key in SAP. You need to define your own special procurement key for your plant in t.code OPPQ. Give your plant. Then click in special procurement. Create new entries.Give procurement type F and tick with draw from alternate plant or other options as per your requirement. Then Then assign it in masterial master for the required masterials. So that requirements in one plant is reflected in other plant.
Regards
Antony

Considering stocks of both plants in special procure. type scenario.-urgent

Hi dudes,
Our client is using special procurement type 80(prod.in alternative plant), he is getting planned order in delivering plant as requirement generated by planning plant. while running MRP in both plants, it would consider only the stock of planning plant but not the stock of delivering plant suppose stock is made in delivering plant individually(say manual orders). As the requirement generated by planning plant, the planned order will be generated in delivering plant irrespective of its individual stock.
can we make the system to consider what ever the stock in delivering plant and create no planned order if stock is there.
thanks in advance
Robert

Robert,
If that was your requirement why not use Special Procurement key 70 (Withdraw from alternate plant). In this case system only creates reservation and Planning at Supplying plant will be based on the Net requirement calculation considering all recipets, Stock and Issues.
Regards,
Prasobh

MRP run in seperate plant

dear sap gurus,
my user want to activate mrp run to only 1 plant (let's say plant A).
But he also want that all reservation in the other plant (plant B which not activate for MRP run) also being calculate for consumption in mrp run for plant A.
These reservation is a request for a material from plant B to plant A
Please, suggest me how to solve this problem.
thanks,
ting

Hi
Select alternate production in sp procure ment key of material master
Ensure that alternate plant is configured in the sp procurement key in customisation
This will solve your problem
regards
Vijay

Intracompany STO between multiple plants

Hi Experts,
What should be the easy way of setting up STO between multiple plants via delivery. I've 15 plants defined here under a single company code and any plant can transfer goods to all plants. So should I maintain this settings at "Assign document type" factorial 15 times i.e., xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx times?
Please help. what should be the easiest way?
Thanks,
Rajoo

Do you want to create STO po between all 15 plants? Every time you create STO? Why don't you go for MB1b with movement type 301 or 303 and 305. Alternatively you can think about using special procurement key in MRP-2 view for direct withdrawel from the alternate plant.
But if you want to do STO between all plants then you need to give all possible combination with document type in config, you have no other alternate
regards
Antony

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