Purpose
Demand Management can also be used to plan across plants. For each material, there is a planning plant that procures and stores the materials independently of orders. There are also one or more ordering plants in which the materials are used for sales orders, production orders, or for other requirements.
Prerequisites
You must set up the material master as follows:
Planning Plant |
Ordering Plant |
Any strategy group |
Special procurement type = 40 |
Mixed MRP indicator = 1 |
Process Flow
The following table illustrates a typical process flow:
Planning Plant |
Ordering Plant |
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