Consumption Group DP

Hi Guys,
I have been ableto release deamnd at customer level using the Consumption group and was able to see the demand at different customer levels in /sapapo/rrp3. But what I am unable to see is the 'Green' icon whihc s supposed to tell me that there is a 'Descriptive' characteristic attached to it. What have I missed?
Thanks,
Subash Nanjangud

Hi,
Make sure of the following points:
1) Customized Consumption group should contain the Customer characteristic.
2) The Cons. Group should be maintained in the Demand Tab of Product master
3) While releasing the FC to SNP by MC90, the Consumption group is specified.
Asheesh

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Technically yes. But in the business context, is this makes sense? Descriptive characteristics are used to consume at lower level than , the level at demand is getting released from DP to SNP. Navigational attributes are used for N:1 relationship. Eg. Customer to Sales Region association. When you release at Customer level, it doesnt put any value keeping Region as consumption group. (Customer is already more detail level than region.. the consumption will happen at the customer level)
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Does anyone have any experience using Consumption Groups in APO? I am trying to utilize this functionality but the consumption piece does not seem to be working. After I release the forecast to SNP, I can see that there is a forecast against that specific customer in /SAPAPO/DMP1. However, after I create a sales order the forecast is not consumed (it does not appear in the allocated field)
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we have a issue in consumption of forecast by sales order for a configurable material.
Please find the below details for the settings maintained and the steps followed.
Please let me know how we can overcome this issue.
settings in R/3
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Hi Srinivas,
thanks for your response.
The forecast consumption problem was solved after correcting the entries in requirement strategy.
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What you are doing is absolutely right.. However, I want to ask a few question..
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Hi Sivaramakrishna,
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/en/fa/e943401a306f13e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
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The consumption group has to be assigned to the u2018demandu2019-view of the
product master
The assignment of the consumption group to the release settings (transaction
/SAPAPO/MC90)
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From a configuration point of view it is required to activate the BAdI
/SAPAPO/DM_BADI_CONF and add following line of coding to the method
CONFR_FILL:
method /sapapo/if_ex_dm_badi_conf~confr_fill.
et_stra_details-plnvp = 9.
endmethod.

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KKK,
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message.
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Hello
We are trying to setup a scenario for capacity reservation for customers wherein we want to reserve capacity for certain customers. We did the following setup as mentioned in help
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_scm70/helpdata/EN/46/19bf1f8716424fe10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
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Best Regards
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Hello Manimaran
Thanks for reply.
The consumption group is maintained correctly with the correct planning area. The planning area is correctly initialised & we are checking the resource against the same version only.
As mentioned, the forecast was correctly released from DP to order series with required descriptive characteristics.
The issue is occuring while selecting the characteristic. As soon as we select characteristic from pop up, the error appears.
mentioning reservation characteristic is invalid.
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Please advice. Thanks in advance
Best Regards
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