Multiple planned delivery time per material and plant/DC

Hello AFS community,

I am currently working on a business requirement called "Multiple

leadtime per article". In fact, the business background is that

external procurement is normally done with a (standard) planned

delivery time (PDT) of - let's say - 105 days from the vendor to our

DC. However, there is an agreement with the vendor that the PDTs of

the same material could be much shorter at the same time (e.g. 25

days) for special business models.

At a higher level, we looked already at a couple of (SAP standard)

options to tackle this requirement, but most of them have been

requested already, e.g.

- Duplication of material and maintainence of different PDTs per

material

- Duplication of plant and maintainence of different PDTs per plant

Looking at AFS, I believe that the SKU concept and in particular

categories might provide the basis for an enhancement to service our

needs. It seems obvious that ATP, MRP, PO Placement process and

masterial data are affected.

For inhouse production, AFS is already supporting "Total replenishment

lead time" on SKU level (see AFS MRP view at material master). I am

now looking for something similiar for external procurement.

Have you faced such a business requirement already and have some

idea's how to cope with it?

MM contract might be an option, but I wonder how it could influence

ATP and MRP providing expected results.

Any feedback is highly appreciated!

BTW: In this context, do you see any chance to control "Lot size" on

SKU (category) level as well?

In advance: Many thanks for your feedback!

Kind regards,

Klaus Leisgang