Executing a Material Requirements Planning Run 

Use

You execute material requirements planning (MRP run) for the whole project in order to plan procurement measures for the material requirements. The system generates planned orders for materials that are to be produced in-house and purchase requisitions for the purchasing department for components that are to be procured externally.

You can find further information in the SAP library under Logistics ® Project System ® Material ® Advance Procurement.

Execute an MRP run:

The BOM for the generator has not been assigned to the project yet and will therefore not be exploded yet. At this moment in time, the materials that first have to be procured are of interest.

For materials that are produced in-house, the BOM explosion also determines dependent requirements, in other words the quantity of components that is required to manufacture the finished product or the assembly.

Prerequisites

The appropriate settings have been maintained for the materials in the MRP views 1 to 4 in the material master record.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the Material node, choose Planning ® MRP Project

    Transaction Code

    MD51

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Project def.

    A-20###

    Create purch. req.

    1 (basically purchase requisitions)

    Planning mode

    1

    Schedule lines

    3

    Scheduling

    1

    Display material list

    Select

  3. Choose .

    4. The system asks you to check the entry parameters.

  4. Choose .

    5. The system executes materials requirements planning and displays statistics.

  5. Choose Materials.

A screen displaying an overview of the results appears. From here you can branch to the current stock/requirements list for a material, for example.