Single-Item Planning 

Use

AFS single-item planning plans the requirements as well as their characteristic values for an AFS material.

You can also enable the function of AFS-MRP parallel processing for AFS materials.

Prerequisite

●      To use the Parallel Processing function, you must activate the business function AFS, Production Planning (/AFS/PP_PPL).

Features

AFS has developed a separate planning run for the single-item planning of AFS materials. It can be carried out at a single-level or multi-level basis.

AFS single-item planning has a process control parameter called Parallel Processing, which you can use to carry out planning for AFS materials in parallel, hence saving time. MRP parallel processing is an improvement to conventional sequential processing. Now you can carry out AFS MRP in parallel processing mode, where the components of a BOM material are processed in parallel rather than sequentially, which is more time consuming.

To select the Parallel Processing indicator, you must first select the indicator Also Plan All Components.

Using the AFS single-item planning you can only carry out a regenerative planning for AFS materials, if you choose the planning mode reset planning data.

After the planning run, you get complex planning data due to the AFS-specific material structure. For better clarity, you can control the display of the MRP list so that only some of this data is displayed. Using the AFS filter you can select AFS-specific data, such as stock category, requirements category and grid value, according to certain data combinations.

For example, you want the system to only display all blue T-shirts in quality 001A after the planning run.

With the function sort and compress you can compress the MRP list display according to the following criteria:

●      Stock number

●      Stock type

●      Requirements number

●      Requirements type

●      Stock category

●      Requirements category

●      Grid Value

●      Period

For example, you compress the display of the planning result monthly by stock type, stock category and period. The MRP list displays all data, except the stock type and the stock category. In addition, only the monthly planning runs will be displayed.

For further information, see AFS MRP List and AFS Stock / Requirements List.

You can use the function sort for future applications.

Activities

●      To define number of sessions (work processes) for an RFC destination in the system, in Customizing choose Production  ® Material Requirements Planning  ® Define Parallel Processing in MRP.

AFS Restrictions

AFS does not support multi-level single-item planning in simulation mode.