Hi all,
We have an intercompany subcontracting process for which we have to find a solution for in APO as well.
I will try to briefly describe it here:
Company Code A
Plant X
Company Code B
Plant Y
CC A and B are using the same SAP & APO system landscape.
Plant Y will produce finished product 1 (FP1) for plant X - as a subcontracting location for plant X - using component 1 (CP1) from plant X. It is therefore required that CP1 should be a nonvaluated material on plant Y, and valuated in plant X. So plant X creates a subcontracting PO for FP1, and plant Y should see the corresponding demand from the subcontracting PO, create a planned order automatically and therefore calculate dependent demand for CP1, get it from Plant X, etc.
Now this whole process works on the APO side using the "Subcontracting with Source Location in PPDS" solution (I have tested it). Problem is - at least to my knowledge so far - that APO does not recognize Plant Y as the subcontracting plant (or the source location), rather it recognises the vendor code for it sent over from R/3. And therefore since APO takes the vendor location as the source location (and not the plant that is linked to it in R/3), the whole planning on the source location on the APO side is not visible / trackable in R/3 simply because the location code is not recognized as a plant in R/3.
So the APO solution is designed for a subcontracting concept in which the subcontractor is an external vendor - or so I have been able to test so far...
That makes the whole thing impossible to work with since the idea here is that both sides (plant X and plant Y) have a control over planning / scheduling and conversion to production orders, creation of purchase requisitions, etc. Plus we cannot plan on 2 different locations where the 2 are actually one and the same...The really interesting thing about this is that I see on the MRP side in R/3 (MD04) that this works - at least I can see subcontracting demand on plant Y side - but not in APO.
Anybody have any ideas? I have a strong feeling that I could be missing something here; maybe a field which links the APO subcontracting location to the plant (Plant Y)....Would be really good to hear solution proposals:)
Best regards,
Ozgur