ASCP and Safety Stock Pegging

Hi,
in our ASCP plan, currently we have items with Safety Stock values manually inserted valid over
all planning horizon.
Therefore all the safety stock is NON-TRANSIENT.
Actually we have Priority Based pegging with:
MSC: Include Safety Stocks in Priority based Pegging: YES.
What is appening is that ASCP peg On Hand quantities to FORECAST DEMAND, then pegs
other supply type to SAFETY STOCK Demand.
I would like ASCP to peg OH to Safety Stock Demand (DUE on the plan start date) before
Forecast demand (due in the future).
Someone knows how to obtain this "feature"?
Thanks in advance.
Giacomo

Giacomo,
I'll give you a few pointers, but this may be difficult to achieve. Try this as a test.
I assume you have a constrained ASCP plan. This question wouldn't be as relevant in an
unconstrained plan because the demands would just be calculated and priority pegging isn't that
useful. .Is that correct, you have a constrained plan?
The key point is that you mentioned is that you have NON-TRANSIENT safety stocks. This
means that you are setting a value due today for 100 units and at the end of the plan, you still
want to have 100 units of safety stock planned.
ASCP priority pegging logic has these rules:
1. Any supply quantity that pegs to NON-TRANSIENT safety stock CANNOT be used at a
future date to peg to real demands. [It's not going to happen]
2. Any Supply quantity that pegs to transient safety stock CAN be used at a future date (when the
corresponding dip in safety stock occurs) to meet demands. [This means that it can release the
supply and re-peg to a future demand].
Independent Demands have a seeded demand priority by default. The first two below are set by a
profile option, safety stock is always the lowest priority ( a number something like 99999 where
the higher value is lower priority)
1. Sales Order = 10,000*
2. Forecast = 100,000*
3. Safety Stock = 999,999 (not sure of this internal value)
Set by a profile with a name like msc: default sales order priority
For priority pegging setup instructions, please see the ascp user guide. The basics would be the
use of two profiles mso: demand window size and mso supply window size. This determines
how ascp will select and sort your supplies and demands for pegging. It starts at the first demand
date or supply date and selects that many future days of demand and supply to sort and then peg.
You also setup a priority rule that determines how ascp calculates priorities for pegging. To
accomplish what you want to do, you would have a rule like
1. MDS & Sales Order priority
2. Schedule Date
This is a commonly used example. The pegging process will the select the number of days you
have chosen and sort the demands based on their prioirty.
Sales orders are more important (to you) than safety stocks, but not forecasts. You want the
safety stock to peg the on hand, not a future forecast. This can only happen because you have
mso: demand window size set to a number of days where pegging sees the future demand in the
same sort. I haven't seen this requirement (SS higher priority than forecast), so you'll need to test
my suggestion.
Set the value of MSC: Default forecast priority = A huge number (higher than 999999).
The intent is to make the demand priority the SAME as a safety stock demand. In this case, with
the priority rule I suggested, the schedule date will determine the pegging order.
I think this will get you close. You can view the internal proirity calculated by ASCP for the
independent demand by selecting that order in the pegging details and then rightclicking to select
the properties. The pegging details wil show you the priority value that was used.