What Costs are in Scope?
Cost Maintenance
Cost Rules or Static Costs are included in the Planning Run Profiles.
It is also possible to assign costs to attributes, like a property of a location product, for example, a new product introduction. If costs are assigned to an attribute "new product", it becomes unnecessary to maintain the cost each time a new product is introduced.
If static and time-dependent costs are maintained, the optimizer will use more granular costs, that is, the time-dependent costs.
Static Costs
You can define the cost rules to be respected by the Constrained Forecast Run using the optimizer in the planning run profile.
In doing so, you can specify different time-independent cost values as follows:
- Inventory cost values for selected location materials
- Transportation and procurement cost values for selected transportation lanes
- Production cost values for selected production data structures
- Late delivery costs and non-delivery costs for selected demands
Additional attributes such as the MRP controller, the plant type, the mode of transport, or custom attributes, are available for selection. The cost values that you enter are abstract numbers representing proportions, they do not have any currency value.
For static costs, it is necessary to create segments and assign costs to different segment types.
When a segment is defined, it is possible to add a condition, defining what is in the segment.
For example, all Transportation Lane from a Factory FA1 is a condition. This condition is assigned a cost of 2 to a segment, as shown in the previous figure.
As you will see from the previous example, these attributes provide you with a very flexible way to set up the cost rules.
The cost rules created (as shown in previous figures) are then assigned to the planning run profile, which is in turn assigned to the: Order-Based Planning: Supply Planning Run.
In addition, one can select Forecast and or Sales Orders from "Demand Selection Profile" as shown in the following figure.
