Long-Term Planning (SAP Library

Long-Term Planning

Technical name: SAP_PP_MP_LONG_TERM_PLANNING

Tasks

This role contains functions for long-term planning and simulative short-term and medium-term planning. You can use these functions

to gain an overview of the future requirements and stock situation and to compare the demand planning with the available capacities
to plan materials that almost plan themselves in the operative flow: reorder point materials, bulk materials, KANBAN materials
to enable the Purchasing department for your company to estimate the order volumes and the purchasing budget on time and to use this estimate as a basis for negotiations with the vendor about scheduling agreements and contracts

Activities in Production Planning

Creating planning scenarios

Creating production program versions for the planning scenario

Setting up planning file entries for the planning scenario

Executing simulative MRP and transferring requirements and receipts to Inventory Controlling

Calculating capacity requirements

Calculating activity type requirement and transferring this to Cost Center Accounting

Calculating requirement for purchased parts and transferring this to the Purchasing Information System

Evaluating simulative MRP

Processing simulative planned orders

Transferring data from operative planning to long-term planning and vice versa

Integration