How to reflect auto-rebranding of Sales Order in SNP Planning?

Question

Hi Experts,
We have a scenario wherein we have branded product and unbranded  product.
-Customers are billed for branded product
-Demand Planning forecast for the branded product
-Invetory will be on unbranded product and I can say that we plan for the unbranded product.
Sales order document will have the branded product in the document. Before the creation of delivery and GI, there will be a stock movement from unbranded to branded product..
In terms of how to model this in APO SNP Planning, I am thinking of using either
(1) Form Fit Function --> branded and unbranded in one class and the unbranded as leading prouct
(2) phantom assembly --> unbranded as component of branded product.
The trick now is that there are cases that they stock for the branded product. So in case there is stock in branded product and its enough to cover the whole quantity of sales order, there will be no rebranding and they will ship for the branded product.
This is where I am having problem modellign in APO SNP. I hope you can help me. Thanks.
Regards,
Mylene

Answer 1

Hi everyone,
I created an OSS message to SAP and this is their reply:
" A sales BOM is not a
planning relevant BOM hence the components must not be transfered in
standard to SCM system. This was introcued with note 398610.
If you need to transfer this items to APO, even if the BOM is not
planning relevant then your have to use a BADI to overwrite here the
standard behavior. Check here note 929975 and related notes.
The filtering is done in prgramm SAPLCUSLNTRTO
FORM CUSLNTRTOX_CHECK_APO_RELEVANCY
IF is_itm_data-sanfe <> marked
OR is_itm_data-objty EQ gc_obj_3.
ev_delete_flag = marked.
So you have to overwrite here this value to get this items transfered.
But anyway is is then out of standard, as a planning system needs only
planning relevant data. "
Hope this helps. Thanks.
Mylene