Product Information
Supply Protection and Fashion Quantity Contracts
With supply protection, you can reserve minimum quantities for the demand of defined groups. Here you can define protection for stock transport orders or sales orders or combine both catalogs.
There is no option to define protection exclusively for contracts, but the fashion quantity contract is considered as well. The fashion quantity contract is treated like an ordinary sales order. If the contract matches a protection group, it is not restricted by this group and does also consume the protection.
However, there is a special logic regarding the call-offs: They are sales orders with reference to a contract. A call-off is not restricted by supply protection as long as the consumption of the contract can be transferred to the call-off. In other words, the consumption of the call-off takes place in the related time bucket of the matching protection group. At the same time, the consumption of the contract is reduced accordingly, and the protection is re-established.
Usually, the quantities of the call-offs can be confirmed, as there is no restriction and the quantities are already confirmed for the contract. There is no need that contract and call-off are matching with the same protection group. There is also no need that both protection groups have the same priority.
With this logic, supply protection can also be handled for contracts, so that call-offs will not be restricted by other supply protection objects as long as the call-offs do not exceed the volume of the contract.
step 1: The quantity contract matches a protection group
Step 2: The contract reduces the remaining protection
Step 3: The Call-Off replaces the Contract with the quantity of the Call-Off
Step 4: The consumption is shifted
Additional Information
Incident component for clarifications: CA-ATP-SUP
SAP Community Blog: Increasing Reliability with Supply Protection
SAP Help: Manage Supply Protection
Hi Arno,
Is the Supply Protection taking place at batch level?
Thanks & Regards,
Murtaza Dharsi
Hello Murtaza Dharasi,
thank you for this question. Supply Protection is always defined on the level of the material-plant combination. It is not (yet) possible to define Supply Protection for a specific batch.
If the request contains a specific batch the restriction for the material-plant combination is taken into account.
We recently have also implemented the option to have different planning-levels. As usual the definition can be done on the level of a material-plant combination, but it is also possible to define Supply Protection for a material in combination with a specific storage location (of the plant).
Best regards,
Arno
Hello Arno,
Many Thanks for your quick reply!
Much appreciated!
Best Regards,
Murtaza Dharsi
Hi,
Are the time buckets only there to auto expire the unused protected quantities, if there are buckets in the future the total quantity still needs to be protected even though the sales order MAD falls outside the range of the protection object?
thanks in advance
Paul
Time Buckets distribute protection over time and allows the "consumption" of protection in time buckets. Consumption means, that the virtual demand of Supply Protection gets replaced by real demand (e. g. by a Sales Order).
Time Buckets are important for the calculation of restrictions. Even for demands matching a protection group the time buckets are relevant as there are different settings regarding "Restriction by Own Protection".
This is described in the blog "Restriction by Own Protection in Supply Protection"
Best regards,
Arno