Cross-Plant Planning 

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

  1. Planned independent requirements are created in Demand Management and trigger procurement.
  
  • Procurement takes place before sales order arrives. Materials are placed in stock.
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  • Any order (sales order, production order, reservation) is created.
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  • A stock transport order is created (for example, by converting a transfer request which was created by the MRP run).
  • Delivery for the stock transport order.
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  • Goods receipt for the stock transport order.
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  • Material is available for order.

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