| production planning area |
An organizational unit that plans its production independently and for which production planning and detailed scheduling is carried out separately.
The production planning area corresponds to the MRP area in the SAP system. The following production planning areas are available in APO (Advanced Planner and Optimizer):
You can specify that a production planning area is to consist of a particular storage location by creating a production planning area and assigning the storage location to it. This storage location is then planned separately from the rest of the plant in the production planning. You can also combine several storage locations into one production planning area by creating a production planning area and assigning the storage locations. These storage locations are then be planned together.
All storage locations for which you have not defined any separate production planning areas, remain in the plant production planning area and are planned together there.
Integration
If you use the SAP system, you define the MRP areas in the SAP system. The data maintained there are transferred to APO and are considered as production planning areas.