Capable to Promise (CTP)

CTP is used to calculate the delivery date of sales orders. Delivery Dates can be assigned to individual orders, or can be calculated in batch through related filters.

The Delivery Date Assignment option located in the right mouse button menu of the Sales Orders window is used to perform capable to promise transactions. Delivery dates can be assigned in batch in the Production Planning menu of the Planning section.
Steps of the Capable to Promise transaction in the Planning and Sales and Distribution sections are the same except for the fact that the capable to promise transaction is performed for materials of an order in the Sales and Distribution section.
The orders to which delivery dates will be assigned are specified using Filter option. The filter options and functions of the Capable to Promise window are:

The Calculation Date and Process Resource Usages filter options are the most important criteria. The calculation date filter is used to specify the calculation start date. The process resource usages option indicates whether or not the delivery date calculation will be performed with unlimited capacity.
Priorities of selected order transactions can be defined individually or in batch. Priorities can be defined directly (default 500) on the window or using the Priority Assignment option of the right mouse button menu and AR/AP Code, Material Code, Order Number or Multiple Priority Assignment options located on the window. If priorities are reassigned to order transactions with predefined priorities, old priorities are deleted and the new priority value is entered.
If "No" is selected in the process resource usages filter, giving different priorities would be useful to inform the user. Since the occupation levels of workstations with assumed unlimited capacities can not be checked, the start date of production orders related to the same workstation will be the same despite different priorities. If materials with same priorities and production procurement type are producing the same Finished Good using the same BOM, revision and routing, production orders on proposal transactions of these materials are generated as a total in a single line. Likewise, if the AR/AP and supplier on the order is the same for materials with same priorities and purchase procurement type, the purchase order proposal on proposal transactions of these materials will be generated as a total in a single line.
Calculation Options is the filter used to specify parameters which will be considered in calculation. If "Delivered-Planned Inputs will be Removed" option is selected, planned slips related to the cancelled production orders are not considered during the CTP calculation.
Once the priority is assigned, "Calculate" is selected from the right mouse button menu. After the calculation, the delivery date column is updated according to the value of the process resource usages parameter. The content of the slip resulting from the date assignment can be tracked using "View" option located in the right mouse button menu of the Production Planning Proposals window located in the Transactions menu of the Planning section. The Source of Proposal field of the slip is CTP.
Dates are assigned to order lines, and a slip with CTP entered on the Proposal Source field is generated on the production planning proposals window by recording the Capable To Promise (CTP) window by clicking on "Save" button.