Item ATP

Available-to-promise (ATP) information represents the balance of planned supply and actual demand. You can use ATP information to determine how much you can still sell to customers.

Note: If multisite functionality is active, the checks are performed per planning cluster.

You can find ATP information in:

  • The item master plan (master-plan-based ATP)
  • The item order plan (order-based ATP)

Master-plan-based ATP gives ATP information by plan period, while order-based ATP is calculated for a particular point in time. Both types of ATP are computed by considering existing inventory, actual demand, and (planned and actual) supply.

You can complement ATP with advanced capable-to-promise (CTP) techniques:

  • Component CTP

    LN takes into account the available components of an end item and translates these components in the number of end items you can make of them.

  • Capacity CTP

    LN takes into account the available capacity on the resources used to produce the end item and translates the item in the number of end items that you can make with that capacity.

  • Channel ATP

    LN takes into account a limit for ATP value of an end items for a specific sales channel.

  • Family CTP

    LN takes into account the availability of the family item to which a specific end item belongs.
Note: If you use the Enterprise Modeler Content Pack with LN, consider using the MPL1110 (Planning of Cumulative ATP and/or CTP) wizard to set up ATP and CTP. You can execute this predefined wizard from the Wizards by Project Model (tgwzr4502m000) session after you specified the business function model for your company.