Material Information 
Implementation Options
As a production scheduler, buyer, sales executive or MRP controller, you want to access information on the stock/requirements situation of a material and then gain an overview of the development of stock and requirements in the coming week. (1)
As a production scheduler, you want to gain an overview of the MRP elements for in-house production (planned orders, production orders, process orders, maintenance orders, dependent reservations) or of the MRP elements for a particular production line. (2)
As a buyer, you want to check which purchase orders and purchase requisitions exist for a material for a particular vendor. (3)
As a sales executive, you are only interested in the current sales orders for a particular customer for a material. (4)
In the case of make-to-order production (strategy group 10), sales orders do not increase requirements quantities, because the emphasis of this strategy lies on the smoothing of the demand program. As an MRP controller, you are interested in available quantities on the basis of sales orders that have actually been received and not on the basis of the planned independent requirements. You therefore want the planned independent requirements to be displayed, but do not want to change the available quantity. (5)
As an MRP controller, you want to be informed about the requirements of bulk materials or materials that are planned using consumption-based planning in order to check whether these requirements occur continually. The system should also occasionally display and, if necessary, settle reservations and dependent requirements for these materials. (6)
Process Flow
You choose individual or collective access to the stock/requirements list (MD04/MD07) from the role-based menu for the MRP controller or from the personal favorites.
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Using Individual Access for Lists,
Using Collective Access for the Stock/Requirements ListYou can use numerous methods of displaying further information for each material. (Scenario 1)
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Individual Line Display,
Display of Period TotalsIf you want to display particular MRP elements but do not want to influence the available quantity calculation, choose a suitable display filter. This limits the display to the MRP elements that are currently of interest to you. (Scenarios 2-4)
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Filtering InformationIf you want to display particular MRP elements and want to define whether or not these are to be included in the available quantity calculation, choose a suitable selection rule. This allows you to have a new business view of the data. (Scenarios 5, 6)
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Filtering InformationIf you want to always work with a particular display filter or a particular selection rule, you can configure the list so that the display filter and selection rule are fixed settings.
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Configuring Access to the Lists