SAP ABAP Data Element WDRD_METHD_S (Method for Determining Receiving Plants)
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_S
Short Description Method for Determining Receiving Plants  
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    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Method 
Medium 15 Method 
Long 28 Plant Determination Method 
Heading Method 
Documentation

Definition

You can use the method for determining the delivery relationship to control whether the receiving plants are to be determined.

You have the following options for determination:

  • Use documents already available in the system
  • Use a logic for determining receiving plants using master data (recipient determination)


  • Use a reference to another delivery relationship (no separate determinaiton)
  • 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 plants are determined using documents available in the system.

The system can check the following documents:

For each document category (purchase order or delivery), you can use separate Customizing to set the document types relevant to determination. If you have not entered a document type for a document category for determining the delivery relationship, the system includes all document types.

You can set the time frame during which available documents are to be included.

This method is advisable if documents that adequately describe the existing delivery relationship are available in a limited time frame for all receiving plants that are relevant to the forecast scenario.

Determination Using Master Data (Recipient Determination)

Recipient determination uses the same master data as source determination. Recipient determination is based on supplying plants though, and not receiving plants.

The system can check the following data:

  • Issuing plant (you can set the scope of the check).
  • Source list (you can set the scope of the check).
  • Locked source list entries
  • Source list requirement in the plant

You can set determination by supplying plants or by source list. In addition to determination by supplying plants, the system can also check the source list.

This method is advisable if the existing delivery relationships are not sufficiently represented by the documents available in the system, but they can be determined from the master data using one of the possible analysis methods.

You must ensure that the logic set for recipient determination corresponds to the source determination used, otherwise the delivery relationship determined will not be accurate enough.












Additional Checks

You can carry out the following additional checks for the receiving plants determined using the automatic methods:

  • Plant category check for the receiving plant
  • Opening hours of the receiving plant
  • Listing of the material in the receiving plant (only for delivery relationship determination at material level)
  • Supply source key of the material for the receiving plant (only for delivery relationship determination at material level)
  • MRP type of the material for the receiving plant (only for delivery relationship determination at material level)
  • Plant-specific material status of the material for the receiving plant (only for delivery relationship determination at material level)

You can also make further adjustment to the determined recipients using the exit EX_BADI_WDRD_002 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-Defined Method

You can carry out a completely customer-defined determination for the receiving plants using the exit EX_BADI_WDRD_001 of Business AddIn BADI_WDRD.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20050428 
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