Hierarchy
SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting⤷
MM-CBP (Application Component) Consumption-Based Planning (See Also PP-MRP)⤷
WEFF (Package) Retail: Extended Forecast Functions
Basic Data
| Data Element | WDRD_METHD_C |
| Short Description | Method for Determining Receiving Customers |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | WDRD_METHD | |
| Data Type | CHAR | Character String |
| Length | 1 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 1 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Method |
| Medium | 15 | Method |
| Long | 29 | Customer Determination Method |
| Heading | 7 | Method |
Documentation
Definition
The method for determining the delivery relationship is used to control whether determination of the receiving customers is necessary.
You have the following options for determination:
- Use documents already available in the system
- Use a logic to determine receiving customers using master data (recipient determination)
- Use a reference to another delivery relationship (no separate determination)
- Use a customer-defined method
You can carry out additional checks for the first two methods.
Alongside this, you can also set manual entry (no automatic determination) as a method. If an automatically determined delivery relationship was changed manually, the appropriate value is set for the method and automatic determination no longer takes place for this delivery relationship.
Determination Using Documents
The receiving customers are determined using documents available in the system.
The system can check the following documents:
You can use separate Customizing to set the document types relevant for determination. If you do not enter a document type for determining the delivery relationship, the system includes all documents.
You can set the time frame in which the system is to include available documents.
This method is advisable if documents that adequately describe the existing delivery relationship are available in a limited time frame for all receiving customers that are relevant to the forecast scenario.
Determination Using Master Data (Recipient Determination)
Recipient determination for customers checks the following data:
- delivery plants for customers.
This method is advisable if the existing delivery relationships are not adequately described by the documents available in the system, but they can be determined from the master data using recipient determination.
Additional Checks
The following additional checks can be carried out for the receiving customers determined using the above methods:
- Listing of the material in a customer assortment (only during determination of the delivery relationship at material level).
You can also make further adjustment to the determined recipient using the exit EX_BADI_WDRD_004 of Business AddIn BADI_WDRD.
Reference to Another Delivery Relationship
If you set a reference to another delivery relationship as the method, the system does not determine the receiving customers separately for the plant and material concerned. By read-accessing the delivery relationship, the productive material and plant can be replaced by reference data, using the exit EX_BADI_WDRD_005 of the Business AddIn BADI_WDRD, so that the delivery relationship for a reference is imported.
Customer-Specific Method
You can carry out a completely customer-defined determination for the receiving customers using the exit EX_BADI_WDRD_003 of Business AddIn BADI_WDRD.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20050428 |
| SAP Release Created in | 110 |
