Carry Out Total Planning Online 

  1. Starting from the MRP node, choose Planning ® Total planning ® Online.

    2. This takes you to the initial screen for the total planning run.

  2. Enter the plant, for which you want to carry out the total planning, or enter the number of the scope of planning.
  3. Specify the control parameters you desire (see Control Parameters for the Planning Run ).

    4. The creation indicator for purchase requisitions is only valid if the MRP group does not override it. The creation indicator for scheduling agreement schedule lines is only valid if the MRP group or the plant entry in Customizing does not override it (see Creation Indicators in the Initial Screen and the MRP Group ).

    If you want to save the parameters set in the initial screen, for the following total planning, choose Settings ® Save. The parameters saved become the default for each following planning run.

  4. If you work with scope of planning, set the indicator for Parallel processing.
  5. Choose .

    6. The system displays the long texts explaining the settings selected.

  6. Check the settings and choose again.

Result

The system carries out total planning for the plant selected or for the scope of planning you have defined. The individual plants or MRP areas are planned in the sequence defined.

When you have completed the planning run you receive statistics with information on the scope of planning, exceptional situations and terminations. You can also see how much time is required for the planning run in total and for planning the individual materials.

To limit the scope of these statistics you can set the number of materials used, in Customizing for MRP under Activate runtime statistics.

If you carry out the total planning in the background, you can print these statistics.

If you have selected the field Display material list in the initial screen of the planning run, the list of the materials planned is displayed above the statistics. If you position the cursor on a specific material in the list and choose MRP list or Stock/ requirements list, this takes you directly to the appropriate list and from there you can test the planning result.