ASCP should plan production of all lines of a Sales Order in the same IO

Question

Requirement details:
1) We are running an ECC plan in OPM environment (Constrained Classic)
2) There are 20+ manufacturing plants – all are equally capable of manufacturing any item
3) Sourcing rules define the sequence in which plants should be loaded (first plant X, go to plant Y when capacity in plant X is full. Go to plant Z when capacity in plant Y is full… and so on.)
4) Sales Orders are entered in a fashion where 1 SO = 1 container.
5) There are 5-20 lines per sales order (for items A, B, C, D etc). Together, these items constitute a full container load (FCL)
6) The composition of this FCL will vary from one Sales Order to another (e.g., customer 1 takes items A,B,C; customer 2 takes A,B,D; customer 3 takes A,B,C,D)
7) To avoid transfers between plants, all lines of one SO should be assigned to same plant for production – even if that means delaying the shipment. The container will be loaded in that plant itself – instead of transferring it to a distribution center.
As per our understanding, ASCP does not support such a requirement. We attempted the following:
1) Defined following profiles:
MSC: Maximum number of planned orders per demand = 1
MSO: Maximum Demands per Group = 1
MSO: Maximum Demands per Slice = 1
2) Defined Demand Priority Rules:
Schedule Date – 1
Sales Orders, Forecasts & MDS Entries Priority – 2
3) If there are 10 SOs with the same Scheduled Ship Date, they were given Planning Priority as 1, 2, 3 … 10
4) All lines of a sales order were assigned the same ship set.
With all the above settings, we could not achieve our goal. Any suggestions from the ASCP Gurus?

Answer 1

Hi Navneet,
Thank you for your reply. To answer your queries:
(1) We have a dummy inventory org mentioned as ship-from org in all SOs (calling it 'dummy' - as physically there is no such IO). This is done because the marketing team does not know from which IO material will be shipped (we do not have GOP in scope).
(2) Sourcing rules mention that a demand in the dummy IO can be met by orgs X, Y, Z etc (each one with 100% allocation, ranks 1, 2, 3 etc). There are no sourcing rules for transfers between X, Y and Z.
(3) The intent is to fulfill a SO from single org with none of the items internally sourced from other orgs.
Regards,
Parikshit