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Merging the sub-items in SCM 7.0 EHP2
Recently, I was exploring some of the options in Rules Based Availability Check ( RBA ) and found that SAP has introduced the option of merging the sub items to ease the handling of transactional...
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Error "Activity Not Valid" (/SAPAPO/OM_ERROR 043) during order creation with PDS
You use Subcontracting in PP/DS and a PDS is used for order creation at Subcontracting Location. When creating a Purchase Requisition for the Product at Plant Location, the order creation fails with...
View ArticlePlanning Run: program error affects behavior of various heuristics
You use /SAPAPO/CDPSB0, /SAPAPO/CDPSB1 or report /SAPAPO/BACKGROUND_SCHEDULING for planning in APO. You face any of the symptoms below: You execute in a Planning Run heuristic New Explosion...
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Pro Customization Manifesto
An organism like your SAP system can evolve and adapt to its particular business jungle. Become faster, more efficient and make users happier. It requires you to be bold, to stay safe but assume the...
View Articlesample code to display resource of the first operation at the product view
Hi all. At the Product View, Elements tab, there is field Resource. This column displays, in general, the resource assigned to the last operation of the order (or the output resource). Overtime, I've...
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Sap List Viewer queries using code in the END-OF-SELECTION section
The Problem Reports and Queries using the “Sap List Viewer” format are a huge improvement from the old “ABAP List” format. Columns can be moved by drag and drop, export options are better, looks are...
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Rules-Based Availability Check Overview and Steps to Configure
Rules-Based Availability Check Overview and Steps to Configure I think, RBA is one of the area in which we have highest number of questions posted on SCN. I am posting this blog to consolidate my...
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Extended Selection in Interactive APO
IntroductionAPO interactive transactions for multiple products don’t usually have all the options for selection that the business may need. This article explains how to use ABAP Query functionality to...
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Differences between ECC and APO Calculation
APO and ECC have different approaches to the calculation of time and capacity in a production order. These may create different results for the same order when complex calculations or variant...
View ArticlePartially delivered orders which was not issued consuming allocations from QTTAB
Hello Dear Experts, I came across a strange issue in APO GATP where i see the partially delivered items which was not goods issued yet(Open deliveries) consuming allocations from QTTAB in APO upon back...
View Article(Proactive notification) SAPLSENA consuming a lot of time in SM50 and...
Recently, I've seen quite a few incidents in which, after upgrade to SCM 7.02 or SCM 7.13, a Planning Run executed as a background job via /SAPAPO/CDPSB1 or report /SAPAPO/BACKGROUND_SCHEDULING takes a...
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ECC's locked production version's effect on APO PDS
Well, this is very old for all APO guys out there - the procurement priority of the PDS is set to thirteen 5's (5555555555555) if the corresponding production version is locked in APO and if the orders...
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Short dumps in qRFC monitor - can be avoided :)
yes, you sometimes see a short dump in SMQ1/SMQ2 but ignore it assuming it as one-off case. But note - each one has a reason, and we should police each abnormal behavior . Let's assume you have a...
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Duplicate line entries for PDS
Well, we all would have learnt of the note 1947530 which fixes the issue of double line entry creation of the PDS during the CIF in case the ‘validity from’ date of the production version is changed to...
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Product-allocation problem during the month-shift
Let’s assume a sales order is created which is integrated with APO. The delivery date for the SO, say lies on some UTC + x time-zone (the customer [ship-to] location’s time-zone). As part of the...
View ArticleSubcontracting scenario in the context of CIF
You have a subcontracting purchase info record in ECC (ME13), and you transfer it via the integration model – you will then have in APO: the external procurement relationship,the product-specific...
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SDRQCR21 for allocation assignments
Well, we observed that when comparing product allocation in APO, this report in APO tries to fetch also the documents prior to the initialized period of the product allocation planning area, and...
View Article(Proactive notification) wrong function code executed through context menu at...
You are in SAP GUI 730 Patch Level 10.You use the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board in APO.You have maintained custom Context Menu entries in the customizing for the Planning Board Profile...
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Extended selection for (almost) any transaction
Even if SAP makes its best effort to provide useful selection screens that may appeal to all its customers, the options could feel limited for your own selection needs. In this article I explain how to...
View Article(Proactive notification) chart does not appear at the DSPB in SCM APO EhP3
You are in SCM APO EhP3.You use the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board in APO.You have a resource utilization / capacity consumption / tank level /(...) chart to be displayed. The curves on the chart...
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