Creation Indicators in the Initial Screen and the MRP Group (SAP Library - Carrying Out the Planning Run (PP-MRP-PR))

Creation Indicators in the Initial Screen and the MRP Group

Use

You can maintain creation indicators in two places:

in the initial screen of the planning run
in the MRP group.

Maintaining them in the MRP group is useful, if planning for each plant is not specific enough for your purposes and you would like to assign control parameters that differ from the control parameters defined for the plant to certain material groups.

You define the creation indicators for MRP groups in Customizing for MRP in the IMG activity Define creation indicator. You then assign the materials in the material master (MRP 1 view) to the MRP group.

Features

Single-item planning and total planning take into account the settings for the MRP groups using different logic:

Logic Used in Total Planning

The creation indicators that you enter manually at the start of a planning run are only defaults. They are only valid, if the SAP system does not find a creation indicator for the MRP group.

You can maintain an additional plant-specific entry for the creation indicator for delivery schedule lines. When a plant-specific entry exists, the following applies:

The system checks first whether the material has been assigned to an MRP group, for which the creation indicators have been maintained.
If this is not the case, it checks whether there is a plant-specific entry.
If this is also not the case, it uses the creation indicator from the initial screen.

Logic Used in Single-Item Planning

In single-item planning, only the settings from the initial screen of the planning run are used. The Customizing settings for the MRP group have no effect.