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Use

Use this function to determine when the system should create purchase requisitions for material components (and service activities) or when reservations should become relevant for MRP.

The following options are available in the Reservation/Purch.Req. field:

This is useful for instance, if you want to cost components but do not want to trigger MRP or purchasing. Another case is if you have copied assemblies from a standard network, but want to activate requirements for subordinate components first.

Activities

You can control the activation of requirements from various hierarchy levels.

If you activate requirements for the whole network, this has - as opposed to changing the field in the network header- no effect on activities or component assignments that are created later.

If the system has already created a purchase requisition for a component, you can go directly from the component assignment detail screen to this purchase requisition.

The reservation number is displayed on the component assignment detail screen, even if the reservation is not relevant to MRP:

 

 

 

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