In the initial screen for the planning run, you can use the creation indicator to determine whether purchase requisitions are always to be created or whether they are only created in the opening period, or whether delivery schedules are to be created, and so on.
In this step, you can define special creation indicators for the MRP groups:
The values specified here are taken into account in the planning run
The following is valid for total planning:
The creation indicators that you manually entered at the beginning of the planning run only has default status. They are only valid, if the SAP system does not find any creation indicators via the MRP group.
The following is valid for single-item planning:
Here, only the settings in the initial screen are valid. The settings made in Customnizing have no effect.
Determine the creation indicators for the MRP groups.