Planning Material Requirements with MRP Areas
Implementation Options
This process describes how to proceed to carry out material requirements planning with MRP areas.
Prerequisites
See also:
Preparing for Material Requirements Planning with MRP AreasProcess Flow
With finished products or important assemblies that are planned using planning strategies, such as the planning strategy Planning without final assembly, you enter independent requirements at plant MRP area level, as make-to-order production is planned at plant MRP area level.
You can, however, start a total planning run specifically for one or more particular MRP areas. For this, you must maintain the scope of planning correspondingly in the IMG activity Define scope of planning for total planning in Customizing for MRP.
In the collective display of MRP lists or current stock/requirements lists, you can specifically select materials for one MRP area or for all MRP areas of a plant. However, the segregated lists are always calculated for each MRP area.
If you choose the evaluation Situation - prod.grp, you are provided with a complete overview of all MRP areas of a material. This is, however, only possible if you have defined the material as a product group.