Creating customer specific deployment reqs.

Question

Hi
Our supply network has a DC that is sourcing from a plant. The demand at the DC is at location-product-customer level in DP. We are releasing to SNP/PPDS with location as a descriptive characteristic. So far so good.
We want to run a SNP or PPDS planning runs so that the demand from DC is carried to the plant, a planned order at the plant as needed and then deploy that stock to DC in deployment run at the customer level.
What this means is at end of the planning runs, we want deployment reqs. that are specific to each customer and not one single qty. for all customers.
Example:
We have DC1 where we have material M1 and 3 customers C1, C2 and C3
Forecast in DP:
M1, DC1, C1 has 100 CAR
M1, DC1, C2 has 150 CAR
M1, DC1, C3 has 200 CAR
The forecast is released to SNP/PPDS at the material-location-customer level.
Desired end result:
deployment req1: 100 CAR going to DC1 for M1 and C1
deployment req2: 150 CAR going to DC1 for M1 and C2
deployment req3: 200 CAR going to DC1 for M1 and C3
Is this possible in APO using either SNP or PPDS using heuristics/CTM or optimizer?

Answer 1

HI Marius
Thanks for taking time answer.
What did you mean by creating a model? you mean in /sapapo/mvm? or a different CTM run for each of the three and specify only Plant, DC, C combination in each?
I am afraid creating separate models isn't an option as this would not provide an overall view and not an efficient option from system usage point of view.
If I go about creating separate CTM runs, the system would delete the previous orders and create a cumulative order qty.
I am thinking may be try checking the indicator "fix Production" and "fix stock transfers" in SNP2 tab and tell CTM not to touch fixed orders, that way the system creates 3 different orders form three runs? you think this may work?  I will test out any way...but just asking...