PPM error with bucket consumption

Question

Hi,
I am having a bit of trouble with the PPDS PPMs. Every time I regenerate the PPM for a specific product-location and run the PPM Check Plan, I get the error "You cannot use unit for bucket consumption of res..." and "Assign a value to at least one bucket consumption..." so what I am doing to temporarly solve it is to manually fill in the Bucket Consumption field from every resource of every operation contained in the PPM.
But this is very time-consuming and I would like to find another way to do this. Is there a special configuration from the R/3 side?
Thank you in advance,
Fernando

Answer 1

Hi Fernando,
If you are creating a PPM directly in APO then you need to follow these steps and maintain the UoM for Variable bucket consumption.This is required to arrive at resource capacity consumption based on the order quantity of the planned/Production order for that specific product.
But if you don't want to maintain this field manually everytime for all/new codes then you can have a setup where you define the PPM related data in R/3 i.e.BOM, Routing data and Production Version that,when CIFed to APO will automatically create the PPDS PPM with all consumption parameters you setup in routing. Then you can also automate the process to generate a SNP PPM with reference to this PPDS PPM.
Hope this helps to clarify..
Regards,
Digambar