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Activate MRP and Set Up Planning File

In the IMG activity "Activate plant", you make the settings required for carrying out the planning run:

Activate Material Requirements Planning

You define the plants for which you want to carry out MRP here. Entries are only to be made in the planning file once this indicator has been set. This means:

Set up Planning File

Here, you must carry out a background job for creating the planning file entries.

Choose "Set up planning file" if you want to activate MRP for a plant whose material master data already exists in the system. Thus, the materials are then included in the planning file.

The procedure for setting up the planning file entries is as follows:

1. Create variant for your background job.
2. You have two options on how to proceed:
a) Using Schedule, you can define when the background job is to be started. The background job is then automatically started on the defined date (date and time).
a) By choosing Immediate start, the job is started immediately and is carried out in the background.

Consistency Check for the Planning File

The planning file entries are checked to make sure that they are consistent by using a background job. This program deletes planning file entries that are no longer valid or adjusts them accordingly.
Carry out the consistency check, if you:

Actions

Activating material requirements planning

1. If necessary, activate MRP for plants that are relevant to planning
2. Set up the planning file for the appropriate plants

Deactivating material requirements planning.

1. If necessary, deactivate MRP in the appropriate plants.
2. Start the background job which you use to delete the planning file entries in the planning file that are no longer relevant.

Reorganize the materials in the planning file by starting the background job that deletes the materials in the planning file that are no longer relevant to the planning run.