Planning Proposal 

Use

The planning proposal enables you as the material requirements planning (MRP) controller to simplify your manual planning. As you create or change shipments manually, the planning proposal gives you default profiles, which include "rules" that automatically create shipments and fill them with data. You can still make manual changes to the planning proposal during processing, unlike collective processing for shipment creation, where you cannot influence processing manually.

Features

You can save the selection criteria that you use for collective processing for shipment creation as a selection variant. You can also save combination criteria that you have maintained as a combination profile and save the data that is used to fill the shipment as a data profile. You can then access these profiles as you carry out collective processing for the automatic creation of shipments, for example. You can also save settings, selection criteria, combination criteria and data together in one planning profile. Technically , the planning profile is a variant of collective processing for shipment creation. A planning profile can be assigned to a shipment type.

If you select a planning proposal while you are creating shipments manually, a dialog box containing that planning proposal with its corresponding data appears, provided a planning proposal was assigned to the shipment type. All default values in the dialog box can be changed except for the basic data (transportation planning location and shipment type), since you just entered that data in the initial screen for creating a shipment. When you choose Execute, the selected deliveries are automatically put together in a shipment and filled in with data, according to the specifications you just made. If errors or warnings occur, they are recorded in a log.