Monday, May 7, 2012

Service Parts Planning Setup - Step 6

Planning Parameters
After the assignment set is created and all the sourcing rules and supply allocation rules are setup in the assignment set,the next step is to setup the planning parameters. Some of these parameters can be overridden at the plan options level of the SPP Plan.
Functional Details
 Navigation --> Service Supply Chain Planner --> Setup --> Parameters
If the system asks for selecting an organization, we need to select the organization for which the planning parameters are to be setup.
Important Fields
Default ABC Assignment Group - This is the ABC group defined on source for each organization. This value gets collected from source.
Execution Defaults Block
Plan Safety Stock - This check box needs to be checked if safety stock is getting planned at the org.
Net Purchases - This check box needs to be checked if the Service Parts Planning engine needs to consider the intransit supplies while running the plan
Net WIP - This checkbox needs to be checked if the WIP orders (For example: orders related to repair WIP orders) need to considered by the SPP engine while running the plan
Technical Details
The details entered in the 'Planning Parameters' form are stored in table - MSC_PARAMETERS

SQL Query


select organization_id,
       sr_instance_id,
       demand_time_fence_flag,
       planning_time_fence_flag,
       consider_wip,
       consider_po,
       plan_safety_stock,
       consider_reservations,
       default_abc_assignment_group
  from msc_parameters 
 where organization_id = 'organization_id';