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Peter Wurst
October 11, 2019 9 minute read

Available To Promise (ATP) and the Scope of Check

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This post aims to describe the various components that are included, or excluded, from the ATP check based
on the rules de ned in the scope of check.  A number of these options are fairly self explanatory, but some of
them have caveats, behave di erently based on other con guration choices, or are less than intuitive.  Hopefully
this guide helps others in their review of ATP con guration.

Examples of the MRP Elements that are impacted by each option and examples of transactions that generate or
modify the MRP Elements are included.  The screenshot below is an example of a standard SAP Availability
Check for sales orders.

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The documentation that follows is based on my own experience, testing in an ECC 6 environment, and with
some assistance from the SAP Support Portal.  Some useful references are provided at the bottom of this
document.

Stocks
All of the options in this area have the ability to impact the general stock quantity that is used to represent the
current stock level at the plan and at the storage location level.  In addition the Incl.quality insp. Stock and W/o
subcontracting options can also impact the MRP elements that are taken into account for availability.

Include safety stock

This option prevents the subtraction of safety stock from available inventory.  In the example above Safety
Stock would be checked. With this option checked the Stock Line in CO09 should match the Stock Line in
MD04. With it un-checked the Stock Line in CO09 should be the result of subtracting Safety Stock from current
stock.

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MRP Elements Impacted: None

StockIn Transfer
Stock in transfer should not be confused with stock in transit, that is used in the two step Stock Transfer Order
process involving a Stock Transfer PO, Outbound Delivery, and subsequent goods receipt.  StockIn Transfer only
applies to stock put into an in transit status, such as with a manual 313 goods movement to place stock in
transit between two storage locations or a 303 to place stock in transit between two plants.  With this box
checked the quantity in transit is added to the stock line of the destination plant or storage location.  Without
this checked the stock in transit is completely unavailable and ignored, both at the sending and receiving
locations.

MRP Elements Impacted: None

Related Transactions: MIGO, MB1B

Incl.quality insp. Stock

For QM managed materials this will include Quality Inspection lots, maintained through transaction QA02, and
will show the lot as available inventory on the Inspection End Date for the lot.  Each lot is separately listed with
its MRP Element.

For materials that are not QM managed this will include stock that is posted into Quality Inspection Stock. 
Quality inspection stock can be posted to manually through transaction like MB1C using standard movement
types 503, 523, or 563.  Quality inspection stock is included as part of the total stock line that is available.

MRP Elements Impacted: QM-Lot

Related Transactions: QA01, QA02, QA03

Include blocked stock

Includes stock that is in a block status, such as stock that is posted into Blocked Stock using movement type
505.  This inventory is represented as part of the total stock.  This does not impact material that is received into
Goods Receipt Blocked Stock, such as material received with movement type 103.  Material Received into
Goods Receipt Blocked Stock will continue to display as a POItem.

MRP Elements impacted: None

Related Transactions: MIGO, MB1C

Include restricted Use Stock

Applies to batch inventory when batch status management is active.  When this ag is checked then batches
that have a restricted status are included along with the unrestricted.

MRP Elements impacted: None

W/o subcontracting
With this ag checked stock provided to vendor is removed from the availability check.  This also removes and
requirements that the subcontracting process may place on component plant inventory, meaning that SubReq

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MRP Elements will not be re ected in Demand, this would have the greatest impact on a material that was both
a subcontracting component for one process and itself a subcontracted material.

This will not impact the inclusion of the POitem or PurRqs elements related to a subcontracting PO being
placed with a vendor.

MRP Elements impacted: SubReq

Replenishment Lead Time

Check without RLT
When unchecked then the system will calculate the replenishment lead time for the material.  When
replenishment lead time is active only requirements that fall within the lead time are considered and everything
that falls outside of RLT automatically con rms.

Replenishment lead time is calculated di erently for externally procured material and produced material, which
is determined based on the Procurement Type of the material.  Materials with a procurement type of X are
treated as produced materials for RLT purposes.

Externally Procured Material

There are three key elds that are used in determining the RLT for a purchased material.

1. Purchasing Processing Time

This is a con gured value and assigned to the plant MRP settings through OPPQ. This duration is checked
against the factory calendar and applies only to work days.
2. Planned Delivery Time
This value comes from the Material Master MRP 2 view and is applied without regard to the factory calendar.
3. GR Processing Time
This value comes from the material master MRP2 view and is checked against the factory calendar, only
being applied to work days.

The example below represents a material at a plant with 1 day of Purchasing Processing time, 30 days of
Planned Delivery Time and 2 days of GR Processing Time.  The factory calendar for the plant is show to the
right, with dates in green being non-working days.

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Produced Material
There are two di erent methods for calculating the RLT for produced materials.  When the Total Replenishment
Lead Time in the MRP 2 view is populated then this is the value that is used.  If this value is empty then SAP
checks the Production Time, which is a combination of the In House Production Time and GR Processing Time
from the MRP 2 view of the material master. Both of these methods use the factory calendar and are applied
only to work days.

The following example is for a material with Total Replenishment lead time maintained and a factory calendar
that doesn’t include weekends.  The Total Replenishment lead time is 20 days.

Storage Location Inspection

No storage location inspection
When the storage location is speci ed in a transaction then it is ignored when performing the ATP check.  This
means that if a plant has 100 EA of inventory in storage location A001, and a delivery is created for 100 EA but

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specifying storage location WM01, then the ATP check will still be successful without storage location
inspection.

In/outward movements
Incl.purchase orders
There are three options when including purchase orders, which include all forms of purchase orders, such as
purchases from vendors, stock transfer orders, and inter-company stock transfers, and returns to vendor. 
These options only apply to the receiving quantities for purchase orders.  The outbound requirements for stock
transfers are controlled through the Incl.rel.order reqs option.

This option controls the inclusion or exclusion of the POitem MRP Element and the ShpgNt MRP Element. 
When purchase orders are included the ShpgNt is always considered, no matter which option is chosen in the
Incl.ship.noti cat. option.

Related Transactions: ME21N, ME22N

MRP Element: POitem, ShpgNt, Return

Blank – Do not check

Inbound quantities from Purchase Orders are ignored.

X – Check
Include purchase orders in available inventory.

X works like A if the STO con guration in Purchasing à Purchase Order à Set Up Stock Transfer Order à Assign
Delivery Type and Checking Rule is set up for the PO Type and Plant to have the ATP Conf. MRP ag checked or
if the Fix Date / Quantity ag is checked in the PO line item.

Availability Date: Delivery Date from PO Line Item + GR Processing Time.  GR processing time is calculated
based on the factory calendar.

If an inbound delivery / shipping con rmation has been applied to the PO Item then Delivery Date is taken from
this con rmed date and then the GR processing time is added.  This is re ected by the MRP Element changing
from a POitem to a ShpgNt.  Shipping Noti cations are always recognized for POs when POs are checked,
regardless of the subsequent Incl.ship.noti cat. option.

A – Check Purch.Orders (If Stock Trans.Ord.:Check Con rmed Qty)

Include purchase orders in available inventory.

Availability Date: Delivery Date from PO Line Item + GR Processing Time.  GR processing time is calculated
based on the factory calendar.

For STOs each Schedule Line is included on its con rmed date with its con rmed quantity.  The GR processing
time is added to each of these dates.

If an inbound delivery / shipping con rmation has been applied to the PO Item then Delivery Date is taken from
this con rmed date and then the GR processing time is added.  This is re ected by the MRP Element changing

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from a POitem to a ShpgNt.  Shipping Noti cations are always recognized for POs when POs are checked,
regardless of the subsequent Incl.ship.noti cat. option.

Incl. purch.requistions
Include Purchase Requisitions in availability check.

Availability Date: Delivery Date from PO Line Item + GR Processing Time.

Related Transactions: ME51N, ME52N

MRP Elements: PurRqs

Incl. dependent reqs

Includes the dependent requirements generated by the component demand of planned orders.  These
requirements are included for all planned orders, regardless of being MRP generated, Component Checked, or
Capacity Scheduled.

Requirement Date: Start Date of the planned order

MRP Elements: DepReq

Include reservations
This is not to be confused with Production Order Component reservations, which controlled by the
Incl.depen.reservat. option.

This option will include demand from reservations made through transaction MB21.

Availability Date: Base date of the reservation.

MRP Element: MtlRes

Include Sales Reqmnts

Includes demand generated from Sales Orders, Scheduling Agreements and other types of SD documents that
are con gured for requirements, depending on con guration this could include Inquiries and Quotes.

MRP Elements: CusOrd, SchAgr

Related Transactions: VA01, VA02, VA31, VA32

Include Deliveries
This option is speci c to SD deliveries and does not impact outbound STO deliveries or inbound purchasing
related deliveries. This option will place a requirement on the material availability date of the delivery line.

MRP Elements: Delvry

Related Transactions: VL01n, VL02N, VL10G, VL10A

Incl.ship.noti cat.
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This option is only relevant if the Incl.purchase orders option is blank.  This option will only include Purchase
Orders that have a shipping con rmation.  If the Incl.purchase orders option is set to either A or X then
Shipment Noti cations are always taken into consideration, regardless of this setting.

MRP Elements: ShpgNt

Related Transactions: ME22N

Incl.depen.reservat.
This option will include component requirements for Production Orders.  There are notes from SAP regarding
this option and its applicability to purchase orders.  I have only used this option to manage reservations related
to Production Order components.

MRP Elements: OrdRes

Related Transactions: CO01, CO02

A – Only include withdrawable reservations

This option will only include requirements related to release Production Orders.  Order Reservations for
production orders that are not yet released will not be considered.

X – Include all reservations

This option will include all production order reservations.

Incl.rel.order reqs
This option is to include the demand for the supplying plant of stock transfers, either related to purchase reqs
or purchase orders.

A – Check releases for stock transport orders only

Only include Stock Transfer Purchase Order requirements at the supplying plant.

MRP Elements: Ord.DS

X – Check releases for stock transport orders and requisitions

Include both Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Order stock transfer requirements at the supplying plant.

MRP Elements: Ord.DS, PRqRel

Transactions: ME51N, ME52N, ME21N, ME22N

Incl. planned orders

This option includes the receipts from Planned Orders.  This option should be carefully considered as planned
orders are often created automatically by the MRP process.

MRP Elements: PldOrd

Transactions: MD11, MD12, MD01

X – Check all planned orders

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Includes all planned orders, MRP Generated, manually created, rmed, con rmed, or capacity planned.

A – Check rmed planned orders only

Only include planned orders with the Plnd order ag checked in the Firming section.

B – Only check planned orders that are completely con rmed

Only include planned orders that have been availability checked in order to con rm component availability.

Incl. production orders

This option includes planned receipts from production orders.

MRP Elements: PrdOrd

Transactions: CO01, CO02

X – Take all production orders into account

This option will include all open production orders

F – Only take released production orders into account

This option will only include receipts for open production orders that have been released for production.

Receipts in past
The Receipts in past option impacts all receipt related ( inventory additive ) MRP Elements.

MRP Elements: PrdOrd, PldOrd, ShpgNt, POitem, PurRqs, QM-lot

Include receipts from past and future

This option takes into account all planned receipts, based on the other options that are chosen, regardless of
the date of the planned receipt.

A – Include receipts from past and future, with messages

This option takes into account all planned receipts, based on the other options that are chosen, regardless of
the date of the planned receipt. A message is presented to the user when the ATP check includes planned
receipts that were supposed to have already occurred.

B – Include future receipts only

This option excludes all planned receipts with a date that falls in the past and includes all receipts where there is
a current or future date.

C – Include future receipts only, with a message

This option excludes all planned receipts with a date that falls in the past and includes all receipts where there is
a current or future date.  A message is presented to the user when the ATP check includes planned receipts that
are planned for the future.

Useful References
SAP Support Notes / Articles

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2219495 – Debugging guide ERP ATP check

835219 – FAQ: ATP composite note
1893237 – Everything about transaction Co09

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Sérgio Rosvald Donaire

October 11, 2019 at 2:39 pm

Excellent, congratulations. Best Regards from Brazil.

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Jing Yan

December 27, 2019 at 2:02 am

Hi Peter! Thank you for the blog, it's quite helpful!!

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Ashutosh Dobhal

March 18, 2020 at 8:11 pm

hi

You can even have Rule bases ATP check at order level ( assigned to sales order in VOV8) , that means di erent
order types can have di erent availability rules, So while a RUSH or CRITICAL order can get stock con rmed
(from safety stock) , a less important order can remain uncon rmed.  Also "RLT" is very complex setting so
better use "Di erent shipping points" so that RLT can be used e ectively, else you will just be con rming orders
without having any stock.

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Moises Ibarra
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June 9, 2020 at 11:47 pm

Hi Peter,

Is there a way to use this functionality with plants/stocks on di erent ECC and/or S/4 installations?

Thank you

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