Hi Kishor,
I believe you have not checked the link fully, it also talks about what all options are available for planning without final assembly to work.
When we compare APO’s Planning Without Final Assembly strategy and real business requirements, we will find many functional discrepancies not just the limitation on certain planning engines. Therefore, we have to study the business requirements carefully and propose the right alternatives.
Option 1 – Planning using PPDS
APO PPDS supports planning without final assembly as well as make-to-order segment. If forecasts, sales orders and manufacturing are in same location, PPDS become nature choice using this option. For many companies, forecasts and sales orders are at Distribution Center (DC). In this case, we can use manufacturing at alternate location. However, this may not be feasible for complex supply network. As a variation to this option, the forecasts at DC can be released at manufacturing location (through simple BADI enhancement). SNP will plan for sales orders at DC and PPDS will plan for forecasts, components and assembly manufacturing. The forecast can be consumed by Stock Transfer Orders from manufacturing location to DC.
Option 2 – Planning using CTM
CTM supports planning without final assembly since SCM/APO 4.0. CTM can be run in both PPDS and SNP mode. The planned orders created by CTM/PPDS are fully integrated with SAP ECC. In other words, the “convertible” flag in planned orders are transferred to ECC. CTM can plan for sales orders in both make-to-stock and make-to-order segment. To display the sales orders in SNP planning book, we just need to implement BADI /SAPAPO/SDP_INTERACT as described earlier.
CTM (Capable-To-Match) is originally developed for semi-conductor industry. Over the years, it has been improved and can be used in complex supply network planning. However, many companies have not adopted the advanced planning engine such as CTM or Optimizer. In many projects, we have to find alternatives for SNP Heuristic (i.e. MRP in my opinion).
Hope this helps.
Rgds
Sourabh