PP/DS Heuristic Question

When executing a PP/DS Heuristic we want to plan only a certain amount of products. In the selection criteria of the Production Planning Run (background processing) we cannot enter the restrictions which lead to the desired scope of products to be planned (Propagation Range, Object 'Products' are not sufficient). Somehow we want to base the selection of
products to be included in the planning run on certain product master settings (for ex. a certain value of a extra attribute field in the product master). Also the exclusion of materials based on a particular product master setting can maybe offer asolution for our issue. 

In our Heuristic run no PPM explosion takes place, only externally procured products are planned.

Does anybody know a solution for this selection issue?
 

You will need to set the object type for selection to 5 - Copy objects from customer exit APOCDPS1

This will allow you to use the customer exit to select the objects you require via ABAP.



Part number strategy 

As we consider moving to R/3 globally and then implement APO we are struggling with part numbering strategy.  Without APO in place is there a way to allow different countries (different company and plant in our case) to maintain unique part numbers and still accomplish inter-company stock transfers?  Or do we need APO for this and, therefore, need to force a
global part number strategy?  Thanks for the insight.

I do not know how you can accomplish this w/o APO, although you may be able to.
 

With APO each R/3 instance can use the same part number aslong as each uses its own Business System Group.   You will need to modify CIF a little, but it should work.
 

In KC we have a unique part number trough Latin America for finished products, semielaborated and raw materials.  Implement this is very hard because you need a team of master data that all countries because first you have to prepare all the codes that you go to upload, then you have to standarize the codes with a unique part number.  For us is useful overall in
finished products corporative because this allow us see in one country the status of the product in other country like inventory, purchase order, requisition or delivery to export. 

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