Apply a planning calendar to a subcontract vendor

We want to apply a planning calendar to a sub-contract vendor so that Chinese New year is bloked out for them and our system doesn't plan deliveries from them that cannot happen. Does anyone know how to do this?

Hi,
You can try following steps.
Create one Planning calendar in MD25 specifying each period as yearly periods.
Maintain Lot size as PK(MRP 1 view) and Planning calendar(MRP 2 view) in material master for the components subcontracing.
After MRP system will group all the requirements in each period and creates PR according to the planning calender.
Regards,
R.Brahmankar.

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Function Module to find date by passign the Planning Calendar

Hi All,
Can you tell me is there any function Module to find date by passign the Planning Calendar?
The requirement is i have a planning calender assigned to the Material in the MRP2 view.
Example: Material XXXXXX is assigned a Planning Calendar Z01.
Z01 is defined such that Delivery is on Monday only. This calendar says that the material is received from the Vendor only on Mondays.
So whenever i punch a Sales Order for Material XXXXXX, a PR is automatically geenrated when saving the sales order and the calculation of Delivery dates is also happening at this level.
Basing on this PR a PO is raised to a Vendor for procuring the Material XXXXXX, now my problem is for example the PO is raised today (30.04.2008), but the Materail XXXXXX is available only on next monday in my plant (05.05.2008) basing on my Planning Calendar assigned in the Materail Master, so i have to inform this dealy to my customer at the time of punching the sales order.
So is there any function Module to find date by passign the Planning Calendar?
Thanks for your valuable inputs.
Regards,
Sudarshan

Hi Jorge,
Thanks for your reply.
I am unable to open the Function module which you have mentioned below.
I am working on 4.6 c version of SAP.
Any ways i have found one function module which is useful to my requirement as stated below:
DATE_GET_PERIOD
Thanks and Regards,
Sudarshan

MRP Rescheduling messages with planning calendars

Hi Experts,
I have successfully set up a planning calendar and applied in material master with a period lot size so that MRP creates purchase reqs with a delivery date on a specific day of the week.
My problem is with the rescheduling dates that appear in MD04 for firmed receipts. These rescheduling dates align to the requirement date date and do not take into account the planning calendar.
Do you know if it is possible to configure the rescheduling to take the planning calendars into account?

Hi Timonthy,
I just had a similar problem last week and the simple answer was to remove the re-order point.
Then it orders only on the day it should (unless you again go below safety stock) up to the forecasted amount.
The other option is to maintain a delivery schedule as well.
That way it will always schedule the delivery on the day you want even when it plans on a day you don't want.
While SAP is not very consistent on what they call the two schedules, the one that is required for MRP is the planning calendar (order cycle) and the optional one is the delivery calendar. Delivery dates are moved to match the delivery calendar regardless of lead time.
Not too sure whether that helps, but it solved my problem.
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ERROR running PLANNING CALENDAR JOB on DBACOCKPIT

Hi Master,
I have some problems with my dbacockpit, I cannot run any job planning calendar on dbacockpit..anyone can help me to resolved the problem?
Thanx,
Luki

Hi Luku
did you performed "self-Monitoring" and applied the master note with SNOTE?
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What is the difference between Planning calendar and Delivery cycle?

Hi gurus ,
For the Planning calendar(MARC-LFRHY) and Delivery cycle(MARC-MRPPP), what is the difference between their functionality ?
I have created the planning calendar by MD25 ,and when I maintain this field in the MRP screen , i found the delivery cycle have the same choose value , so could you make me clear about this ?
Thanks in advance .
Ryan

Hi,
If you have to deal with more complex situations, you can define a delivery cycle in the material master record in addition to the planning cycle. In so doing, you determine the days on whichthe vendor delivers his goods. The delivery cycle is entered in the material master record as a planning calendar in the Planning calendar field.
You enter a delivery cycle if the delivery date (or the goods receipt date) depends on the day on which you order the goods. For example, you carry out the planning run and place your orders on Mondays and Tuesdays. If you place the order on Monday, the delivery is made on Wednesday, if you wait until Tuesday to place the order, the delivery is not made until Friday
Where as Planning calander is Three character number (numeric or using letters) that specifically identifies a PPS-planning calendar. The difference between Planning calender and delivery cycle is If you have selected the MRP type "MRP" and have set a period lot-sizing procedure according to planning calendar, you enter here which planning calendar is to be used.
If you selected the "time-phased planning" MRP type, the planning calendar that you specify here defines the delivery cycle. This specifies the days on which the vendor delivers the material. You can enter the planning cycle in addition to the delivery cycle

DBA Cockpit: Planning calendar and remote Oracle databases- which method?

For using DBA Planning Calendar to schedule BR*Tools for remote Oracle database AS Java systems I have successfully implemented both the Secure Shell and SAP gateway methods in [Note 1025707 - DBA Cockpit: Planning calendar and remote Oracle databases|https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1025707] and was interested in which of these two methods others have found to be more supportable and maintainable?
In more detail, the note has these two methods for non-ABAP remote systems:
2. Connection through Remote/Secure Shell
Specifically Secure Shell. Rejecting remote shell as too old and insecure a protocol.
3 Connection through SAP gateway
The note provides clues as to how these methods work. Expanding on that:
With #2, central ABAP system calls out to its OS user level to execute the ssh client (after gw/rem_start has been set to the non-default value SSH_SHELL) which it finds in the location specified in gw/ssh (default value is /usr/bin/ssh). It must use password-less authentication and the key-based authentication must also not require a passphrase. (Using ssh-agent is not an option since this is being called from SAP, not from your own script.)
It remotely runs via ssh a command, sapxpg, which must be found in the PATH of the remote user. (This is why the note, which has you place this exe sapxpg and a subset of the BR*Tools in the home dir of the remote user, also has you make sure the home dir is included in the path--your OS might or might not include the user's home dir in the path in the default shell environment for a new user.)
Then via sapxpg, the BR*Tools are invoked.
One thing that may be confusing here is you have to check at least one gateway parameter 'gw/...' in the central system to get the method #2 the non-gateway method to work--this is because the two methods are technically almost the same: in #2, secure shell is used to basically start a gateway on the fly with sapxpg in order to call the BR*Tools each time a DBA Planning Calendar action runs or you view DBA or Backup logs of the remote system from the central system. With #3, the gateway runs continuously on the remote system.
With #3, central system connects to remote SAP standalone gateway, which executes the BR*Tools installed in the standard SAP kernel directory of the SAP gateway. This method is simpler to describe so it sounds like it has less components than the secure shell method, however you do have an entire SAP system running, although it is just a standalone gateway.
Thoughts:
These pros/cons are UNIX/Linux-oriented since I assume most Windows environments do not have added 3rd-party products that provide secure shell so SAP gateway is the only method.
Secure shell
+ Less software required (not counting secure shell which comes with the operating system distribution): just a few SAP executables placed in the home dir of an ordinary user on the remote system.
+ Secure shell service probably automatically starts upon boot of the remote system operating system.
+ Secure shell is a widely used tool outside of SAP for executing commands remotely without passwords.
- Installation is non-standard: shell environment of remote user is not adapted by SAP installer since SAP installer is not used, SAP executables in the home dir of the remote user is non-standard. Has to be setup manually.
- Requires setting up secure shell key-based authentication, which should be known by UNIX/Linux admins or combined Basis/UNIX/Linux admins, but might be less familiar to SAP Web AS only admins.
- If your admin config policy is to have SAP interact as little possible with the OS level for interfaces with other systems, here you are relying on the OS-level secure shell.
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+ Only uses SAP software.
- More software on remote system: standalone gateway just to run BR*Tools and view logs.
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Hi Joe,
I configured a monitoring/dba landscape for two SAP Portals and one SAP BusinessObjects system on a SAP landscape by using DBACOCKPIT, at a customer site. These systems are running on AIX, Windows 2003/2008 servers and attached to the central monitoring system with standalone SAP gateway installations.
One another reason to not use OS based commands or 3rd party tools is security. We are stopping and disabling most of the services on OS where SAP system is running on, because of the security reasons. I faced more security gaps on rsh/ssh and the other tools than standalone SAP Gateway installations. As you can figure out that rsh/ssh is getting more attack than standalone SAP Gateway, because of well known by the IT world.
As a summary of it, this depends to point of view and policy of the IT organization. I applied both ssh and standalone SAP Gateway solutions at my customers, but I choose standalone SAP Gateway installation among of them.
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Orkun Gedik

Issue in assigning new Planning Calendar for MRP.

Hello Experts
I have trouble in setting up new Planning calendar for S&OP and MRP process. Let me explain in details
Requirement is, currently I am using standard country specific Factory calendar format (monthly period) per plant. But new requirement has came up and Company wants to change beginning and end of period (monthly) -- as shown below
Current Calendar
1 July to 31 July = period 1 - 2014
1 Aug to 31 Aug = Period 2 - 2014
and so on..
New requirement is ( Last week of Friday is end of Period)
Sat 28 June to Fri 25 July = Period 1 - 2014
Sat 26 July to Fri 29 Aug = Period 2 - 2014
Sat 30 Aug to Fri 3 Oct = Period 3 - 2014
and so on..
(basic concept is to keep
4wk, 5wk, 5wk for Quarter 1
4wk, 4wk, 5wk for Quarter 2. and so on.. )
I have setup new planning calendar in MD25..
ie. min period, start of period not a working day, Calculation rule & Period etc...
then assigned new planning calendar in MM02 - MRP2 and also in MRP1 used Lot size PK... etc..
But when i Put demand in MC88.. which gives us std month format and transfer to DM, then Ran MRP but some how MRP is not creating correct Qty in planned demand as per new calender..
i.e.. 1 July to 31 July = period 1 - 2014 if total demand Qty for Material XYZ is : 50
I am expecting planned demand result in MRP as... Sat 28 June to Fri 25 July = Period 1 - 2014 - should be 50 in total.. but It's not..
Any reason? Or I am missing some settings?
Thank you in advance..
PC...

Thanks KK/Umesh
Business wants planning calendar in this format. And Fiscal Year Variant has also been set according to new calendar.
KK, Regarding MC88 there is no option to incorporate planning calendar into S&OP process. And Organisation's S&OP process is set from day one (Planning by ProdGrp/Material) so MD61 would not be a good option to use.
Umesh, regarding "start of period not a working day", I have selected "do not displace". And 27/09 and 27/12 dates are set holiday. The major issue here is: Not every 4th Sat of month is Period start day, MRP is picking new planning calendar (defined in above table) from the system But some how when transferring forecast data from planning table to demand management (MC88), system don't recognize new planning calendar and it distributes demand over weekly bucket per regular month Calendar instead of new planning calendar..
Some how I need to incorporate new planning calendar into S&OP setup somewhere, Any thoughts?
Thanks.
PC

Sale Order Subcontracting & Vendor wise stock

Dear Gurus,
I have one doubt we are doing sale order subcontracting transfer posting by 311 E to vendor. so is it really need to create vendor wise storage locations to track the stock at vendor end, as we have no. of vendors for subcontracting and storage location is part of organization structure.
so is it advisable to go like that ? or please suggest me any other way to track the stock at vendor end sale order wise.
Thanks & regards,
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Hello Sir ,
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Hello friends, I am working in the transaction /sapapo/calendar trying to change a Planning Calendar and when I try to Calculate the periods in the view "Calculation Rule" i got a error message saying: Factory calendar TU not found (message number /SAPAPO/CAL404).
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Hello Senthil,
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Hi Madhu ,
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I appreciate the suggestions. I would very much like to use a "Friday" planning calendar, however, if I changed the lot size key to PK - I can no longer replenish to a maximum stock level (unless someone knows of a way to get MRP behavior like lot size key HB but with something like PK).
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In MD04 transaction, we can see the planning time fence lign. In my system, the planning time fence lign is calculated based on the plant calendar (SCAL transaction).
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