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Purpose

The planning strategies explained in this section are designed for planning the procurement (production or purchasing) of components by planning the components themselves. This is particularly useful in the following cases:

The overall purpose of planning at component level is to procure components to stock (without sales orders) in order to react to customer demand as quickly as possible.

Prerequisites

Choose a strategy for planning components, if:

Process Flow

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Strategies for planning components can be used for both make-to-stock and make-to-order scenarios.

Note

If you want to make use of a strategy for a make-to-stock planning of components in a make-to-order environment, you may want to consider setting the Individual/coll. indicator (on the MRP screen) to 2 as a starting point for your master data setup.

The planning of components has the following in common with make-to-stock strategies:

In Planning at Assembly Level (70), no specific product structure of the component is required. In other words, it does not matter if the component has a BOM or not. The material can be produced in-house, or procured externally (for example, raw materials).

For information on special issues concerning procuring components using strategies 50, 52, 60, 63, and all make-to-order strategies, see Stockkeeping at Different BOM Levels.

For information on how the replenishment lead time is interpreted, see Replenishment Lead Time.

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