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SAP Sales & Distribution

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SAP S/4HANA 2022

advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP)

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Focus on

Release for Delivery (RefDy)

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  1. S/4HANA aATP overview.
  2. Overview and Benefits of Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  3. Setup of using aATAP Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  4. “Configure Order Fulfillment Responsibilities” Fiori App.
  5. “Release for Delivery” Fiori App.

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Release for Delivery App

Product Allocation Apps

Back Order Processing Apps

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Back Order Processing. (with new Strategies; Win, Gain, Redistribute, Fill, Loose)

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Product Allocation (complete redesign different from ECC or APO).

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Release for Delivery App.

Enhanced BOP.

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Enhanced Product Allocation.

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Enhanced Released fo

Delivery.

Alternative-based-confirmation (ABC) for Product Substitution and only for “Create” Sales Order (Material, Location).

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Rule-based ATP

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1709

1808

2022

Protect Quantities

Prioritize the demand of a material in a ATP check process.

(For PAL, an upper limit is defined while the logic of supply protection defines minimum quantities).

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Supply protection (SUP) is used to protect a group against the demands of other groups.

Capability of Partial confirmation for Plant substitution in Advanced Available-to-promise.

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Partial confirmations with multiple plants as Sub-item in Sales order.

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Use of Custom and additional standard fields to define alternative control.

2020

ABC now works also for “Change” of sales order apart from “Create” sales order.

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Additional Building Rules for ABC.

1909

Enhancement on the ABC.

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Review Availability Check Results (RACR) screen provides detailed explanation of ATP results.

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Enhanced features to PAL, part of the RACR.

2021

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  • S/4HANA aATP overview.
  • Overview and Benefits of Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • Setup of using aATAP Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • “Configure Order Fulfillment Responsibilities” Fiori App.
  • “Release for Delivery” Fiori App.

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  1. S4HANA Release for Delivery (RefDy). Is a process prior to delivery creation and provides the option to manipulate the order confirmations for last-minute changes.
  2. SAP aATP’s Release for Delivery (RefDy) is therefore basically a “Manual Back Order Process” the complements aATP’s Advance Back Order Procesing (BOP).
  3. After Advance aATP BOP execute for Sales Order; when near to the delivery dates, customer can then modify the results manually just before creating delivery documents using aATP RefDY.
  4. Via aATP RefDy, customer can now create delivery documents through Release for delivery, if you modify confirmed quantity by using it.

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Benefits of the aATP Release for Delivery (RefDy):

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  • Provides Sales and Delivery/Shipping personnel to gain Insight to the Sales Order almost ready for delivery to check any Exceptions and adjust proposals prior to the Outbound Delivery creation.
  • “Release for Delivery” Fiori app can Prioritize due Sales Orders or Stock Transport Orders that contain materials with limited availability or high demand against current Inventory Information.

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  • S/4HANA aATP overview.
  • Overview and Benefits of Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • Setup of using aATAP Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • “Configure Order Fulfillment Responsibilities” Fiori App.
  • “Release for Delivery” Fiori App.

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Activate Availability Check Group (AV Check Group) to be assigned to Material MRP3 view in the following iMG:

IMG

> Cross-Application Components

> Advanced Available-to-Promise(aATP)

> Product Availability Check(PAC)

> Define Availability Check Group

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In the Material Master (MM01 or MM02) for a desired Plant, goto MRP3 data view OR Sales: General/Plant data view and assign the AV Check Group activated for “aATP”.

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Note that in S/4 HANA, Availability Check Group entry in the Material Master in Mandatory.

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  • S/4HANA aATP overview.
  • Overview and Benefits of Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • Setup of using aATAP Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • “Configure Order Fulfillment Responsibilities” Fiori App.
  • “Release for Delivery” Fiori App.

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With this app, you can configure order fulfillment responsibilities to enable your order fulfillment specialists to process all the materials for which they are responsible in the Release for Delivery app. This app enables you to scope and personalize the work of your order fulfillment specialists and ensures that they only see business documents and materials for which they are responsible within a specific time period. Furthermore, the app helps you to react flexibly to changing situations by offering methods with which to reassign responsibilities from one order fulfillment specialist to another. You can use this app if the business role Order Fulfillment Manager (R0226) is assigned to your user.

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/#/detail/Apps('F2246')/S27OP

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Key Features

  • Create a single order fulfillment responsibility for at least one specific selection criterion (for example, plant) consisting of at least one selection condition and, if required, optional exclusion conditions.
  • Create multiple order fulfillment responsibilities in one step for at least one specific selection criterion (for example, product group).
  • Define business task-specific behavior such as the relevant business document(s) and the strategy used to update the worklist to reflect any changes to requirements, during processing in the Release for Delivery app.
  • Assign the order fulfillment responsibilities to the responsible order fulfillment specialist(s) for a dedicated time period.
  • Edit and display order fulfillment responsibilities.

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Material Master is set as the Selection Criteria

Horizon is in

number of Days

Other Selection attributes; eg: Plant

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Enter a Responsibility Name

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In the “Business Tas Specifics” Tab, assign the created “Order Fulfillment Responsibility” to the User

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Froggy

GMT 7

GMT 7

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  • S/4HANA aATP overview.
  • Overview and Benefits of Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • Setup of using aATAP Release for Delivery (RefDy).
  • “Configure Order Fulfillment Responsibilities” Fiori App.
  • “Release for Delivery” Fiori App.

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With this app, you can prioritize due sales orders containing materials with limited availability in the order fulfillment responsibility to which you are assigned. The app allows you to view the material availability situation of materials for which you are responsible as well as assess the potential financial impact of being unable to fulfill sales orders. This, in combination with other factors, helps you decide how to distribute material quantities between sales orders, before you release the sales orders for subsequent logistics processes.

https://fioriappslibrary.hana.ondemand.com/sap/fix/externalViewer/#/detail/Apps('F1786')/S8OP

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Key Features

  • Display sales orders containing materials for which you are responsible during a specific time period, including sales order items for materials with limited availability.
  • Display the availability situation for the materials for which you are responsible.
  • Display the potential financial impact for your organization if materials are not available and material redistribution is not optimized.
  • Manually redistribute material quantities between sales order items, as required, to fulfill a sales order partially or completely.
  • Apply confirmation strategies such as Confirm from Top to enable efficient, semi-automatic processing of mass data.
  • Protect quantities of sales order items from further processing
  • Postpone further processing of sales order items.
  • Release materials for delivery, thus triggering subsequent logistics processes (for example, picking).

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Any Backorder Sales Order are listed in this data block or Sales Order not yet Prepared (Confirmed)

Fully Confirmed SOs and STPOs (not yet Released) are listed in this data block

Released SOs and STPOs are listed in this data block

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List all Sales Order for Material FG1 that is “Unprepared”

There is 1 Backorder Item

Total Sales Order Qty

8 pc and

7 pc Confirmed in SO Creation or via BOP

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SO#4180 has a Normal Priority “2” but Confirmed with 4 PC

SO#4182 has a High Priority “0” but has 1 PC Unconfirmed (in Orange color)

click the ICON to get dialogue box to choose SORT criteria (will choose “Priority” as Sort criteria)

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click the ICON to get dialogue box to choose SORT criteria (will choose “Priority” as Sort criteria)

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Original 4/4

reduce to 3 for the Normal Priority Sales Order

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Original 1/2

increase 1pc for the High Priority Sales Order

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When Satisfied with the Manual Back Order Processing, click “Publish and Back”

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Test

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next, click the “Prepared” data block

click “Release for Delivery” to create the “Outbound Delivery”