Overview
You can now use the new Order-Based Planning: Flexible Copy of Version Data application job template to flexibly select the order types that you want to copy to another version. You can combine the selection of order types with a selection of location product attributes or a planning filter to only copy specific orders for a specific location product. It's also possible to exclude orders that are older than a number of days that you define. If you want, you can also choose to copy stock.
You need the Application Jobs - Response and Supply (SAP_IBP_BC_JOB_RM_SUP_PC) business catalog to run the application job.
Differences to Order-Based Planning: Copy Version Data job
It's important to note that if you limit the copy to only specific location products, the copy doesn't extend to the networks of those location products.
Another difference to the Order-Based Planning: Copy Version Data application job is that the Order-Based Planning: Flexible Copy of Version Data application job does not copy master data. If you copy to versions with version-specific master data, the behavior is as follows:
- Only orders are copied for which all necessary master data exists in the target version.
- If the necessary master data exists but the attributes have different values, orders are copied nonetheless. However, the orders are not adapted to the attribute values in the target version. For example, if the lead time of a location product is changed in the target version, existing orders for this location product are copied but the orders keep the lead time from the source version.
Clearing the target version
With Clear Target Vers. Before Copy, all orders, regardless of type, and stock are deleted. After the copy is finished, the target version only contains orders that match the copying scope and the order types and, if selected, stock.
When you don't select any locations, products, order types, or stock to copy and only select the Clear Target Vers. Before Copy option, you get an empty target version.
Fixing status
If an order already exists in the target version but it's fixing status in the source version is different, the fixing status is taken over from the source version. For example, if a planned order is already fixed in the target version, but in the source version you decided to unfix it again, this will be the new fixing status in the target version after the copy.
It's similar for deployment requisitions: if a stock transfer requisition is not yet set for deployment in the target version, it will be after the copy if it's set for deployment in the source version.
Limitations:
Subcontracting purchase requisitions, substitution orders, and transportation loads are not copied. The behavior will change in a future release.
The Clear Target Vers. Before Copy option deletes subcontracting purchase requisitions and substitution orders. Transportation loads are not deleted. The behavior will change in a future release.