How to Prevent Creating Planned Orders in a Supply Plan

In some business cases, you might want to prevent the creation of planned orders for particular items. You can use the Create Supply attribute to manage scenarios such as end-of-life items or phasing out of components.

The Create Supply attribute also applies to end items. If set to No for an end item, all remaining demands for the end item are marked as unmet demands after using up all on-hand inventory and on-order inventory.

This topic describes how to prevent the creation of planned orders. If you instead want only to delay the creation of planned orders until after a specified date, see the How to Create New Supplies Only After a Specified Date topic in this guide.

You can use the Create Supply attribute in both constrained and unconstrained supply plans, with a few minor differences, which are noted in this topic.

To prevent creating planned orders in a supply plan:

1. Set the Create Supply attribute to No for an item-organization.

2. (Constrained Plans Only) Select your decision rules in the plan options. This step is required only if you defined substitutes or alternates in your plan and want the supply plan to use existing supplies or recommend planned orders on them.

Caution: Set the Create Supply attribute to No only on required items for which you don't want to create any new supplies. Setting the attribute on the wrong items can lead to unmet demands.

Set the Create Supply Attribute

To prevent the planning process from creating planned orders for a particular item, set the Create Supply attribute to No for an item-organization. To set this attribute, from the Product Information Management work area, navigate to the Items page, Specifications tab. You can also set the Create Supply attribute in the Item simulation set that's available in Supply Chain Planning.

This table describes how the planning process manages supplies when the Create Supply indicator is set to No.

Applies to plan types:	When Create Supply indicator is set to No for:	The planning process does this:
Constrained and Unconstrained	End items	All on-hand inventory and on-order inventory is used up to satisfy demands. All remaining demands for the end item are marked as unmet demands.
Constrained and Unconstrained	Primary components	All demands for end items whose item structure includes this component is unmet after on-hand and existing supplies are used up to satisfy demands.
Constrained	Primary components that have substitute components defined in Item Structures	A substitute component is used to satisfy the demand of an end item. The Use substitute components decision rule must be selected on the Plan Options page, Supply tab, Constraints and Decisions Rules subtab.
Constrained	A component in a primary bill of material that has alternate bill of materials defined	An alternate item structure that doesn't have this component is used. The Use alternate item structure and work definitions decision rule must be selected on the Plan Options page, Supply tab, Constraints and Decisions Rules subtab.

For information on how to configure decision rules for constrained plans, see the Configure Constraints and Decision Rules topic in this guide.