How do you run the optimizer with fixed orders?

Question

Hi experts,
If the planner wishes to prioritize orders based on the customer demand, orders should be set as fixed.
How do I run the optimizer when using fixed orders??
Regards,
Analía Nahmías

Answer 1

Hi Analia,
Will you please elaborate more ?
It looks you are running SNP optimizer and want to use also make use of order prioirty functionlity.
You may be knowing already the contents below :
We know that Demand Prioritization functionlity is handled differently in SNP CTM and in SNP Optimizer.
In SNP CTM, Demand can be sorted by different sort criteria.
Whereas in SNP-Optimizer, Demand can be aggregated for three demand classes or by customer locations.
We set prioirties on the SNP Optimizer profile Maintenance for demand classes ,
1. Sales orders
2. The Corrected demand forecast
3.The demand forecast
Apart from this, we can set flag for priority of location products
The optimizer considers the priority of location products in combination with the priority of priority classes of the demand. To simplify this combination, we  must group the priorities of the location products into three classes.
Within every priority class as above, the APO system uses all available cost information to determine the final solution
With the above way, planner does not have to fix an order.
regards
Datta