Application of CTP checks

You can use the capable-to-promise (CTP) functionality in LN in a variety of ways.

If you want to base the order-acceptance process on the existing planning for an item, you can use basic ATP functionality.

However, you can also supplement this with extended CTP checks. This way, the sales process can take into account your capability to produce extra quantities of an item. If you wish, you can even base all sales on extended CTP checks, so you do not need to create any production planning in advance.

The sales process can be further enhanced with channel ATP.

Finally, the family CTP functionality in LN allows you to carry out longer-term order promising on a more general product-family level. In fact, you can redirect the ATP and CTP checks for a plan item to any other plan item.

Immediate versus offline checks

For order acceptance, you can use CTP checks in two ways:

  • Immediate CTP check: if you select the CTP Check for Sales (for EP and OPS) check box in the Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000) session, LN checks CTP during sales-order entry.
  • Offline CTP check: you can collect multiple orders in written form, and then use the ATP Handling (cprrp4800m000) session to carry out CTP checks.
Note

CTP checks carried out during the sales process are always based on the actual scenario.

Handling of an anticipated inventory shortage

If the CTP on the planned delivery date is insufficient, LN offers a number of possibilities to handle the shortage, such as:

  • Decrease the order quantity.
  • Choose a later delivery date.
  • Select an alternative item.
Distribution planning

LN can also use CTP functionality when it generates planned distribution orders. If you use a supply strategy with an allocation rule that involves the internal supplier's capability, the selection of suppliers is constrained by:

  • The supplying item's CTP , depending on the CTP settings for this item.
  • The supplying item's ATP .

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