APO Deployment pushing stock in pull scenario

Hello experts,
Right now, I am having an issue with my client regarding the deployment optimizer results. Due to some business reasons, it is necessary to keep the stock in the plant for a certain group of products, instead of deploying it to the distribution centers. The only time the stock can be deployed to the DC is when there is a demand.
The current network is 1 plant and 3 DCs. Push distribution field is setup as blank (pull rule), the pull horizon is set to 10 days and the fair share rule is setup as B.
I have already tested these scenarios (several times with different values):
Non delivery penalty higher in the plant than in the DC:
Product A – plant NDP 2,000,000
Product A – DC 1 NDP 1,000,000
Product A – DC 2 NDP 1,000,000
Product A – DC 2 NDP 1,000,000
RESULT: the stock is deployed to the DC even when there is no demand at the DC.
Storage cost higher in the DC
Product A – plant SC 1
Product A – DC 1 SC 100,000,000
Product A – DC 2 SC 100,000,000
Product A – DC 3 SC 100,000,000
RESULT: the stock is deployed to the DC even when there is no demand at the DC.
If pull horizon is extended, the stock will be kept in the plant only if there is demand in the plant, if there is no demand, the stock is deployed to the DC (tested with previous cost definitions).
Something that is important to know is that max stock level in plant and in DCs is set to 1. This is because normally these products shouldn’t have available stock. Max stock level is a soft restriction (no cost that affects it), so it shouldn’t matter if it is exceeded at the plant (with the result I am getting, the stock is being exceeded at the DC).
What I find confusing about this whole situation is that when I review the Dep Opt Log, it seems to assume the costs implied in deploying the stock to the DC, even when they are way higher than keeping the stock in the plant.
Have anyone faced this same issue before? Any ideas on how can this be configured in the system using the Dep optimizer based on costs?
I would really appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Kenichi,
STO is not generated by a SNP heuristic. You can only generate STR's (Stock Transport Requisition) with SNP heuristic run.
You can generate STR's either by running SNP heuristics on Manfacturing Plant(Location B in your case). Or you can run Network SNP Heuristics on Location A.
Then, you can convert the generated STR to STO either in APO or R3. To do it in APO, you have to run Deployment,followed by TLB run. Or to do it in ECC, you may have to use t-codes like ME59 for converison of STR to STO etc.
Thank you,
Santosh KB.

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