Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (SCM-APO-PPS)

Structure that describes the material flows between product receipts (purchase orders, purchase requisitions, planned orders, production orders and stocks) and product requirements (sales orders, planned independent requirements, dependent requirements and stock transport requirements).

The pegging structure describes the relationships of orders at all BOM levels, and for sales orders from the receipt elements of the ordered products and the required components, to the receipt elements for the raw materials.

A material flow is possible between two orders, that is, a pegging relationship can be created between orders

• If the orders are in the same pegging area, for example, if the product, location, account assignment and planning version of the orders are the same
• If the product receipt is before the product requirement

If this is not the case, the pegging relationship cannot be created and/or an alert will be created. The exact behavior is dependent on the type of pegging relationship (dynamic or fixed) and on the settings in the product master.

The quantities of product receipts and product requirements can deviate from each other. In this case a requirement may have to be covered by several product receipts. A product receipt can also cover several requirements. The relationship between product receipts and product requirements is therefore an n:n relationship.