Creating PIRs for the MRP Area (SAP Library - Demand Management (PP-MP-DEM))

Creating PIRs for the MRP Area

Prerequisites

Define MRP area in Customizing for material planning

Assign the material to appropriate MRP area in the material master

Maintain parameters in the material master; these parameters apply both to the MRP area and to the entire plant

For detailed information about setting up the MRP area in the material master, see

MRP Area

Planning with MRP Area

Creating MRP Area Segments in the Material Master

Procedure

The procedure for creating PIRs for MRP areas is exactly the same as creating PIRs for a plant, with the following exception: When you create PIRs for an MRP area, you must enter the identifying number of the MRP area instead of the plant number.

See

Creating PIRs with Reference

Creating PIRs Without Reference

Additional Information

You can delete PIRs from an MRP area by deleting the MRP area number from the Creating Planned Independent Requirements screen and recompiling.

When you define the planning strategies and parameters in the material master, these parameters apply to the whole plant, including all the MRP areas within the plant: You cannot maintain the MRP areas separately.

The integration of the MRP area and the assignment of the MRP area in the sales order is supported only by a user exit in the sales and distribution user exit pool.

Sales orders with MRP areas are created irrespective of the availability check control group in the material master.

Customer order processing of production sales orders with the item category (account assignment Step E Single) is only maintained in the MRP area of the plant.

In Customizing and in the MRP area user exit, make sure that when transferring individual sales orders, only requirements types KE, KEK, KEKS, KET, KELV, KEV, KEVV, VSEF, and VSE are generated.

The following requirements types are valid for the MRP area: KE, KEK, KEKS, KET, KELV, KEV, KEVV, VSEF, and VSE.

You cannot plan with preliminary planning materials in the MRP area.

There is no planning strategy for the material segment of the MRP area.

The planning strategy for the material master segment of the plant is assigned to the material segment of the MRP area.

The consumption mode and the periods of adjustment are derived from the plant in the MRP area of the material master.

Only consumption customer requirements with planned independent requirements are allowed: VSF requirements with KSV and VSFB with KSV.