Working with Individual MRP Elements (SAP Library - Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP))

Working with Individual MRP Elements

Use

You have numerous possibilities for accessing information and processing functions for individual MRP elements. You can thus recognize material shortage situations quickly and rectify these by, for example, changing dates or quantities in an MRP element.

Prerequisites

You have called up the MRP list or the stock/requirements list for a material.

You are in the individual line display. Choose

if you are still in the period totals display.

If required, you have positioned the cursor on the MRP element, with which you want to work.

Procedure

Function	Starting the function	What you should know
Display information for exception messages	Double-click on the message number of the message text	In the respective list, you access the descriptive text for a message number in the status line by double-clicking the number of the exception message. To access further information about the message, double-click the status line. In the details dialog box for an MRP element, you access further information about an exception message by double-clicking the exception message.
Display details for an MRP element	Double-click on MRP element or click once and choose	The system gives you additional information about the selected MRP element in a detail dialog box. For a planned order, for example, you are given the order number, order quantity, basic dates, and the two most important exception messages that occurred during the planning run. You can also access the planned order yourself and change quantities or dates convert the planned order directly into a production order create your own link to planned order processing by using (see Define User-Specific Transaction Calls per MRP Element)
Set manual firming date	Edit ® Set firming date	The manual firming date lengthens, if necessary, the planning time fence (see also Manual Firming Date). This function is only supported in the stock/requirements list.
Display order report for an MRP element		In an order report for a planned order, for example, the system determines and displays the dependent requirements with their planned receipt elements. This gives you an overview of the status for all BOM levels, which enables you to recognize possible bottlenecks in material availability much faster.
Display order tree for an MRP element		The system shows the order tree in the left section of the screen or you switch to the order tree from the material tree. In the order tree, the system displays all BOM items from the multi-level BOM hierarchically.
Display pegged requirements for the MRP element		When you display the pegged requirements for a dependent requirement for a raw material, for example, you can trace: which requirements caused the dependent requirement which independent requirements, especially sales orders, are endangered by the loss or change in date or quantity of a procurement proposal for this raw material.