Cook book / Solution Map for doing "VMI with APO" ?

Question

Hello experts,
we are planning to implement VMI and want to use our SCM50. I'm looking for a little "cook book" or even an SAP solution map which sort of guides through the required settings in APO (and R3). Main focus is to plan replenishment to a customer location from our DC using SNP heuristic and run Deployment / TLB to create the replenishment customer orders in R3. The stock at customer side is non-consigned - so no consignment involved.
One specific question is how would you create the location products for SNP at customer location side since such cannot be CIFed etc. Manually is no option in case of roughly 3000 products at 4 Customer locations.
Regards
Thomas

Answer 1

Hi Thomas,
In general, the ERP master data objects plant, customer, vendor, shipping point, etc. are
transferred as locations.  They differ from each other through their respective location types.
In SAP R/3 Customizing you assign a node type to the plant, for example, a plant or
distribution center. To do this, choose Production > Distribution Resource Planning (DRP) >
Basic Settings > Maintain assignment of node type u2013 plant. By doing this you define the
location type in SAP APO to which the plant defined in SAP R/3 corresponds.
If you want to transfer a large number of customers, you create transportation zones in
which you group multiple customers. The transportation zone is mapped as a location in
SAP APO with the location type 1005 (transportation zone). You assign the customers
to the transportation zone using a hierarchy.
In CFM1, once your selection criteria are entered and upon execution, check whether
the customer location is getting picked up.
Regards
R. Senthil Mareeswaran.