Execute Total Planning in Background Mode 

  1. Starting from the Material Requirements Planning node, choose Planning ® Total planning ® As background job.
  2. The Total planning: Variants screen appears.

  3. Choose Create variant.
  4. The variant contains the control parameters for the total planning run.

  5. Enter a name for the variant and choose Create.
  6. The system displays the Variants: change screen assignment dialog box. The system recommends the BATCH structure for MRP run screen.

  7. Choose Continue.
  8. The recommendation is copied and this takes you to the initial screen for the total planning run.

  9. Enter the control parameters that the system is to use during the total planning run (see Control Parameters for the Planning Run) and, if you work with scope of planning, select the Parallel processing field.
  10. Choose Attributes.
  11. The ABAP: Save Attributes of Variant XXX: screen appears.

  12. Enter a description for the variant in the Description field and choose .
  13. This takes you to the initial screen for the total planning run again.

  14. Choose Variants ® Exit.
  15. The Total planning: Variants screen appears again.

  16. Position the cursor on the variant and choose Schedule job.
  17. The Total Planning Scheduling: Start Time screen appears.

  18. You define whether the variant created is to be scheduled just once or periodically.

Result

If you choose Schedule once, the planning run is carried out once on the date that you have specified and with the control parameters that you defined in the variant.

If you choose Schedule periodically, the total planning run is repeated at regular intervals.

If you run the total planning run in background mode, you can print out the protocol and the resulting statistics.