Alternative Item Group, Discontinuation, Phantom Item or none of them?

[ziolkowskib]

Dear Gurus,

I was asked to handle very similar case to the one specified in the following thread:

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3546977

Generally speaking there is material FINAL_PRODUCT that can be created using three alternative materials A, B and C. The materials as such are almost identical (procured from different vendors) so any of them could be used to produce FINAL_PRODUCT. The thing is that my customer would like to use up what is left of materials A and B before using any of material C.

In other words:

For producing 1 FINAL_PRODUCT we need 100 PC of material A or 100 PC of material B or 100 PC of material C. Let's say we are in situation when we have available 20 PC of material A, 40 PC of material B and 120 PC of material C. In this case I would like to end up with Production Order with following components/quantities:

Material A: 20 PC

Material B: 40 PC

Material C: 40 PC

After my reasearch I am under impression that:

1. I can't use discontinuation here (Multi Level Discontinuation not suported)

2. When I use Alternative Item Group with strategy 2 only one (the available one) of the components is used (in my example that would be material C) which does not satisfy my requirement. I was trying to play a bit with ABAP (exit EXIT_SAPLATPC_002) but with rather poor results.

3. In this thread (https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3546977) someone mentioned using Phantom Items. I tried to follow the example but if that is possible then I did something incorrectly. I defined material A as component of FINAL_PRODUCT with special procurement = 50. Next I defined material B as component of material A with special procurement = 50. Finally I defined material C as component of material B. As the final result only material C was allocated in my Production Order.

Does anyone have any suggestions how this can be handled using preferably standard or custom (ABAP) solution?

Thanks in advance for your support.

[jessica_li]

Hello,

I have to say none of mentioned 3 options can fulfill your requirement.

1. Multi Level Discontinuation not supported

2. Alternative group with strategy 2 will priority the component which has full available qty.

3. Phantom material doesn't have component requirement, thus requirement all transfers to C.

However, I suggest you test alternative group with strategy 1 and all with usage probability 100%, set A as priority 1, B =2, C=3. Hope this can help fulfill your business requirement.

best regards,

Jessica Li