Planned Order Conversion
Use
Planned orders are created in material requirements planning to cover the requirements. Planned orders represent a demand to procure or produce a material. Planned orders for materials that are to be produced in-house are converted to production orders. The material components required for production are contained as items in the planned order and are copied directly when the planned order is converted to a production order.
You have the following options for converting planned orders to production orders:
Individual Conversion Collective Conversion Partial Conversion (see also Partial Conversion of a Planned Order)
In a partial conversion, a planned order is reduced in partial quantities into several production orders. Partial conversion is described separately.
Prerequisites
If the material requirements planning, routings, and bills of material components have been implemented, you can create planned orders that contain almost all the data that is required to create a production order.
Features
A planned order contains the following data:
The material components required for production are contained as items in the planned order and are copied directly when the planned order is converted to a production order. The BOM is not exploded again.
On conversion, the secondary requirements for the components are converted to reservations. The operation data and production resource/tool data is copied as usual from the routing for the material to be produced. Routing selection is described in the section
Routing Selection.If, when converting the planned order, you make changes to the required quantity that is copied or if the basic finish date is changed, then a planning file entry is generated. When material requirements planning is executed again, the material and its components are planned again.