Rounding Profile (SAP Library - Material Requirements Planning (PP-MRP))

Rounding Profile

Use

You use a rounding profile if you want to round the procurement quantity up to quantities, which can be delivered or transported.

Prerequisites

You have assigned a rounding profile to the material in the Rounding profile field in the material master (MRP 1 view).

You define rounding profiles in Customizing for MRP in the IMG activity Define rounding profiles.

Features

A rounding profile consists of threshold and rounding values, whereby every threshold value is assigned a rounding value. If the requirement lies below the first threshold value, the system copies the original requirement value unchanged. If the requirement exceeds the first threshold value, the system always rounds up.

Example

A material’s base unit of measure is 1 piece. The material is to be transported in layers (one layer corresponds to 5 pieces) or in pallets (one pallet corresponds to 8 layers which corresponds to 40 pieces).

You have defined the following rounding profile in Customizing:

2 ® 5
32 ® 40

From a requirement of 2 pieces, the system rounds up to 5 pieces, from a requirement of 32 pieces, it rounds up to 40 pieces.

The system then calculates the procurement quantities as follows:

Requirement	Procurement quantity
1	1
2	5
6	10
7	10
21	25
31	35
32	40
41	45
74	80

For a requirement of 7 pieces, the system checks how many times 5 fits into 7. This results in a procurement quantity of 5 pieces (1x5 = 5). The system rounds up the remaining 2 pieces to 5 pieces. Thus, for a requirement of 7 pieces, one procurement proposal is created for 10 pieces.

For a requirement of 74 pieces, the system checks how many times 40 in fits into 74. This results in a procurement quantity of 40 pieces (1x40 = 40). The system rounds up the remaining 34 pieces to 40 pieces. Thus, for a requirement of 74 pieces, a procurement proposal is created for 80 pieces.