Material Requirements Planning with MRP Areas
Implementation Options
This process contains technical information on how the planning run works with MRP areas. The process is to a great extent the same as the planning run at plant level.
Process Flow
If you have defined a different special procurement type in the MRP area segment, the system creates the corresponding procurement proposal, for example, stock transport requisitions for the special procurement Stock transfer from plant to plant.
With the special procurement keys, which are entered into the MRP area segment, the material requirements planning for the MRP area only takes into account the settings for special procurement types that do not refer to the BOM explosion.
The settings for stock transfer are taken into consideration, for example, in contrast to the special procurement key Phantom assembly, which refers to the BOM explosion.
In order for the system to be able to determine requirements at MRP area level, you must ensure that the storage location determined during the planning run is the same as the storage location that is defined in the MRP area (see
If you have entered an MRP group in the MRP area segment, the system uses the parameters that are defined in the MRP group during the planning run. The only exceptions to this are: the strategy group, the parameters for the consumption mode and period of adjustment and the checking rule for dependent requirements in the case of the availability check. Even if you have defined these parameters in the MRP group, the system still uses the parameters from the MRP data of the material master.