Using Collective Access for Stock/Requirements Lists (SAP Library

Using Collective Access for Stock/Requirements Lists

Use

You want to display the stock/requirements situation for a series of materials in the stock/requirements list.

Prerequisites

You have run MRP for the materials using single-item planning or total planning.

Procedure

From the MRP or MPS menu, select Evaluations ® Stock/requirements list collective display.

You now branch into the collective access screen.

In collective access:

Enter the plant and one of the following parameters: MRP controller, product group, class, vendor and production line. In practice, the emphasis lies on the selection by MRP controller.

If you do not enter any further selection criteria, the system selects all the materials assigned to this MRP controller (or the chosen selection) in the respective plant.

If the work with MRP areas is activated for a single client, you enter either the plant (= all MRP areas including the plant MRP area) or only one particular MRP area, and, in addition, one of the parameters MRP controller, product group, class, vendor or production line. In practice, the emphasis lies on the selection by MRP controller.

If you do not enter any further selection criteria, the system selects all the materials assigned to this MRP controller (or the chosen selection) in the selected MRP area or in all MRP areas. Materials that are assigned to five MRP areas are displayed, where applicable, with five stock/requirements lists.

If required, enter further selection criteria.

Material data: for example, stock/requirements lists for all materials that are procured externally.

File entries for MRP: for example, stock/requirements lists for all materials with a file entry in the planning file.

Choose whether the stock/requirements lists should be created in the background first.

If you select the Set up lists in background field, the lists are created, and the traffic lights, the calculated ranges of coverage and exception messages for the materials are shown in the material list that the system subsequently displays. As the creation of the lists can take a long time, the system displays a confirmation prompt if more than 25 materials are involved.

If you do not select the field, the lists are not created, and the system displays them without traffic lights, with a calculated range of coverage of 0, and without exception messages in the material list that the system subsequently displays. In this case, the calculation of values in the lists only takes place when the materials are accessed individually.

If required, choose a display filter and/or a selection rule (see Filtering Information).

For example, a display filter that only displays the planned orders for the next two weeks in the stock/requirements list for the materials assigned to a selected MRP controller.

You define display filters and selection rules in Customizing for MRP in the IMG activity Define display filter and Display selection rule.

Choose .

The system displays the descriptions of the chosen settings.

Check the settings and choose again.

Result

The material list appears. This includes all the materials that fulfill your selection criteria (see Sorting Material Lists, Creating Worklists).

In the material list, you can display the ranges of coverage and the stock values using graphics and you can do this for more than one material at the same time (see Graphic Display, Graphic Display of Lists).