Capable to Promise
An important company objective in the lean transformation process is improving the ability to deliver a product that is assembled-to-order or built-to-order with a competitive lead time.
The Capable-to-Promise (CTP) functionality provides the order takers with accurate information at the point of order entry about the availability of products, material, and resources that are needed to satisfy a specific customer demand.
This functionality can occur automatically at order entry time or in a batch job after the sales order has been entered. The availability of resources for lean manufacturing can be determined by loading the kanban jobs on the Kanban job schedule that are related to a work cell. The availability of material is determined by explosion and pegging, similar to manufacturing with production orders.
Delivery date control CTP
The CTP delivery date control helps companies verify the requested ship date and potentially update the confirmed ship date on a sales line where there is a problem fulfilling the customer-requested ship date.
This feature is enabled by extending the existing delivery control with a CTP option that triggers a Master Scheduling explosion and uses the returned futures date as the suggested ship date.
The prerequisites for running delivery date CTP are:
The configuration key for Master Planning is set.
A dynamic plan is set up and assigned to the Master Planning parameters.
A dynamic plan is configured for futures messages.
The static and dynamic plans have been calculated.
Where CTP is used for a given product, the following prerequisites are suggested:
Coverage group setting where Futures messages are enabled
Default order settings with a sales lead time of zero days
Default order settings with the delivery date control of CTP
A kanban rule exists for either scheduled or automatic sales event
Automatic planning on the kanban rule is set to 1
For scheduled kanbans, a firming fence is required
Batch calculation by using CTP
A calculation can be run after the sales lines have been entered from the header of the sales order.
From the sales order header, select Sell > Generate > Calculate > Confirmed delivery dates.
Run the CTP check for the sales orders without the Update confirmed dates option selected.
The batch job will run the CTP explosion for all sales order lines and provide an InfoBar with the resulting confirmed ship dates, but without updating the sales line.
If the proposed ship dates are acceptable, the calculation is run again with the Update delivery dates on sales lines option selected. This option runs the CTP explosion and updates the confirmed ship dates and confirmed receipt dates on the sales lines.