Merge of planned orders from the same product

Question

Hi Experts,
We have some lines where we process materials with different properties so setup time/costs between ones and anothers are very important.
If we run the PPDS Optimizer or scheduling based on setup groups for a period of 2 weeks then depending on the demands we may get 2 or 3 orders of the same material followed. Is there a possibility that once we have the short-term plan and we have this situation we run a heuristic that merge orders from the same material into one order? Capacity Driven heuristic does not fulfill our requirements.
Ex:
Order 1 = 10000 PC
Order 2 = 20000 PC
Order 3 = 5000 PC
They are followed in the resource so we would like to have one of 35000 PC.
Right now, we are using a simulation so looking at the total amount of the followed orders then we can get an idea of which should be the minimum lot size to be used .   They can also modify the total quantity of the first order with the sum of the others but none of these 2 options makes the customer totally happy.
Any suggestions?
Regards
CTF

Answer 1

After PPDS Optimizer .
Get the list of all FG PPDS orders into an internal table.
Use     BAPI_PRDSRVAPS_GETLIST2
           BAPI_MOSRVAPS_GETLIST2
Consolidate the orders which are in scheduled status for each product, resource and PPM.
Sum the quantities.Create the Orders and delete the old orders.
Use BAPI_MOSRVAPS_DELEMULTI (For deleting the Orders)
Use BAPI_MOSRVAPS_SAVEMULTI3( For creating a new Order)
Thanks,
nandha