Excluding Materials and Capacities from Long-term Planning 
Use
You can limit the long-term planning run as follows:
- Using the material status, you can exclude materials from long-term planning.
- You can exclude materials from long-term planning for individual BOMs.
- You can exclude capacities in the work center from long-term planning. This means if capacity planning is carried out in the long-term planning run, this capacity is excluded from the capacity check.
Procedure
Excluding materials using the material status
To exclude a material from long-term planning using the material status, proceed as follows:
- Define the appropriate material status in Customizing for the Material Master.
- Enter the appropriate status in the material master record of the material in question (MRP 1 screen) in the MM/PP Status field.
Excluding materials in the BOM
If you do not want to exclude a material from long-term planning in general but only for one particular BOM, you can define a key for BOM explosion stating that the BOM item which has been assigned this key is not to be included in the long-term planning run.
To do this, proceed as follows:
- In Customizing for Bills of Materials, in the workstep Define BOM Explosion Control, define a key for the BOM explosion control that excludes the BOM from long-term planning.
- Enter the key for the explosion control in the BOM item ( Item
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Full, MRP data).
Excluding capacities from long-term planning
If you want to exclude a capacity from long-term planning, proceed as follows:
- Call up the work center.
- In the capacity header of the appropriate capacity category, select the Long-term planning field (section of the screen entitled, Planning details).