Check the Consistency of the Planning File (SAP Library - Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP))

Check the Consistency of the Planning File

Use

Since the entries in the planning file are permanent, you must check their MRP relevancy regularly. If, for example, a plant is subsequently excluded from material requirements planning, its materials will still be included in the planning file. The same applies for materials that are subsequently flagged with the MRP type No MRP and are thus excluded from MRP. In such cases, you should delete the entries in the planning file.

Procedure

Starting from the MRP menu choose Planning ® Planning file entry ® Consistency check.

The initial screen for checking consistency now appears.

By using a selection variant, you can either plan the consistency check of the planning file entries to take place at a later date or you can start the process immediately.

Once the consistency check has started, the system checks each entry for the following information:

Does the material still exist, that is, does a material master record still exist for the material?
Is material requirements planning activated for the plant?
Does the material have a valid MRP type in the material master?
Does the low-level code still match the one in the material master?

Result

If one of these criteria no longer applies, the respective entry is deleted from the planning file.

If the low-level code no longer corresponds to the one in the material master record, the entry is deleted from the planning file and a new one is created with the current low-level code.