Releasing the Demand Plan to SNP

Dears,
I need more illustration when you using Transaction Code /SAPAPO/MC90 to release demand to SNP
APO Help Say :-
"independent requirements is not restricted to planning in SCM SNP. Planned independent requirements within the production horizon are planned in production planning and detailed scheduling in SCM PP/DS."
What he means by data will be available n PP/DS?
Did APO System Generate Capacity Requirement? is that what he means ?
Regards
Rami

Rami
There are two horizons in the product master - SNP production horizon and SNP stock transfer horizon. In your company if you are using both SNP and PP/DS then after the forecast is released to SNP, you will execute SNP and then for the short term you will execute PP/DS.
In such a scenario (where SNP is used for mid term planning and pp/ds for the short term) , you need to maintain the SNP production horizon (in case of inhouse production) and stock trans horizon(for external procurement / branch to branch transfers) to define the boundary between sNP and PP/Ds. that is you need to specify till what day /week /month you need PP/DDS plan and for what time frame you need SNP plan. The SNP production / stk trans horizon is the horizon during which SNP will not generate any plan. That is if your stk trans horizon is say 10 days , then SNP will not genearate any supply within this 10 days even if there is demand . Supply will be generated for the next 10 days only by PP/DS. SNP will generate supply only outside the production /stock transfer horizon.
As specified by SAP , your planned independent requirement is thus not restricted to SNP. That is if the demand is within the prod / stk trans horizon it is fulfilled by the pp/ds run and demands outside the horizon are planned by sNP
Thanks
Saradha
Edited by: Saradha Ramesh on Sep 27, 2010 4:13 PM

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