Master planning with purchase trade agreements
This article describes how master planning can find the vendor and/or lead time for a planned order, based on the best price or lead time that is found among all purchase trade agreements that have been specified for a given product.
Turn the Purchase trade agreements for Planning Optimization feature on or off
To use this feature, it must be turned on for your system. As of Supply Chain Management version 10.0.29, the feature is mandatory and can't be turned off. If you're running a version older than 10.0.29, then admins can turn this functionality on or off by searching for the Purchase trade agreements for Planning Optimization feature in the Feature management workspace.
Prepare your system to evaluate purchase trade agreements during master planning
Follow these steps to configure your system to apply master planning that evaluates purchase trade agreements.
Go to Master planning > Setup > Master planning parameters. On the Planned orders tab, in the Vendor section, set the following values:
- Find trade agreement – Set this option to Yes to include purchase trade agreements in master planning.
- Search criterion – Select the factor that you want to prioritize for each purchase trade agreement: Minimum lead time or Lowest unit price.
Go to Procurement and sourcing > Setup > Prices and discounts > Activate price/discount, and make sure that the Vendor option is set to Yes.
Go to Product information management > Setup > Dimension and variant groups > Storage dimension groups, and select a storage dimension group that applies to products that master planning should evaluate purchase trade agreements for. Make sure that each relevant storage dimension in this group has a check mark in the For purchase prices column. Repeat this step for every other relevant storage dimension group.
Prepare a released product to evaluate purchase trade agreements during master planning
After your system is prepared as described in the previous section, you should follow these steps to make sure that each product that you want to use with this feature is correctly set up.
Go to Product information management > Products > Released products, and open a target product.
On the Purchase FastTab, make sure that no vendor is assigned in the Vendor field.
On the Action Pane, on the Plan tab, in the Coverage group, select Item coverage to open the Item coverage page for the selected product. Verify the following settings:
- On the General tab, you can set up vendor overrides. If you want master planning to use purchase trade agreements to select a vendor, you should prevent vendor overrides by clearing the Use specific setting check box.
- On the Lead time tab, you can set up lead-time overrides. If you want master planning to use purchase trade agreements to select lead times, you should prevent lead-time overrides. Clear the check box for each type of lead time that you want to select by using purchase trade agreements (Purchase, Production, and/or Transfer).
Close the Item coverage page to return to the details page for the selected product.
On the Action Pane, on the Plan tab, in the Forecast group, select Supply forecast to open the Supply forecast page. Make sure that no row that is shown here has a value in the Vendor account column.
Close the Supply forecast page to return to the details page for the selected product.
On the Action Pane, on the Purchase tab, in the Trade agreements group, select View trade agreements. Make sure that all the relevant purchase trade agreements are listed. Also make sure that the Disregard lead time option is set to No for each agreement where you want master planning to use the lead time that is specified for that agreement.
On the Action Pane, on the Plan tab, in the Order settings group, select Default order settings to open the Default order settings page for the selected product. On the Purchase order FastTab, view the value of the Purchase lead time field. If no item coverage lead-time override is defined, master planning will use this value when it selects trade agreements where the Disregard lead time option is set to Yes. Therefore, you should adjust this value as you require.
Repeat this procedure for each relevant product.
Note
Master planning supports multi-currency purchase trade agreements. When searching for a trade agreement using the Lowest unit price option, the system will consider purchase trade agreement lines with different currencies provided an exchange rate has been defined between the trade agreement line currency and the accounting currency of the legal entity. Otherwise, the trade agreement line will be ignored, and you will see an error during master planning. Therefore, master planning will include information from all relevant purchase trade agreement lines where prices can be converted to the accounting currency. It is important to note that rounding rules will not be taken into account during the trade agreement line price conversion.
Examples of how master planning finds vendor and lead times
The following table provides examples that show how various settings for a released product and its associated purchase trade agreements affect the values that are found for the resulting planned purchase order. The bold values in the two rightmost columns are the values that are selected by master planning. The bold and italic values in the other columns are the settings that produced those resulting values for each row.
| Released product: Vendor | Default order settings: Lead time | Item coverage: Override vendor | Item coverage: Override lead time | Trade agreement: Vendor | Trade agreement: Lead time | Trade agreement: Disregard lead time | Resulting vendor | Resulting lead time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US001 | 1 | No | No | US003 | 3 | No | US001 | 1 |
| US001 | 1 | Yes: US002 | Yes: 2 | US003 | 3 | No | US002 | 2 |
| (Blank) | 1 | No | No | US003 | 3 | No | US003 | 3 |
| (Blank) | 1 | No | No | US003 | 3 | Yes | US003 | 1 |
| (Blank) | 1 | Yes: US002 | No | US003 | 3 | No | US002 | 1 |
| (Blank) | 1 | Yes: US002 | No | US003 | 3 | No | US002 | 1 |
| (Blank) | 1 | No | Yes: 2 | US003 | 3 | No | US003 | 3 |
| (Blank) | 1 | No | Yes: 2 | US003 | 3 | Yes | US003 | 2 |