Plan Items with Only Transfer Order Demand

You can plan for item and organization combinations that have no demand other than transfer order demand from a downstream organization, such as a distribution center.

For example, ABC Enterprises has multiple distribution centers where it receives sales orders from different customers. It replenishes the distribution centers either by transferring existing supplies or by manufacturing the supplies in manufacturing organizations based on demand from distribution centers. ABC Enterprises can focus on planning only manufacturing organizations in a supply plan with transfer order demands from distribution organizations without running the supply plan with all planned items.

To plan items with only transfer order demands in an organization, select one of the following from the Supply Planned Items drop-down list on the Scope tab in plan options:

• All planned items
• Demand plan items and all sales orders
• Demand plan items, WIP components, and all sales orders

You can plan items with only transfer order demand from a Supply Planning or Demand and Supply Planning work area for constrained and unconstrained supply plans.

If your plan includes both transfer order demands and sales orders, you can modify a setting to plan only the transfer order demands. To plan only transfer order demands but not sales orders, deselect the Enable Netting check box for sales orders in Demand and Supply Netting dialog box in plan options.

To deselect the Enable Netting check box for sales orders:

1. In the Supply Planning work area, open the Manage Plans page.
2. Create a plan or edit plan options for an existing plan.
3. Click the Supply tab in Plan Options and navigate to the Organizations and Schedules subtab.
4. Select an organization and then click the Select button in the Demand and Supply Netting column.
5. In the Demand and Supply Netting dialog box, deselect the Enable Netting check box for sales orders.