AFS has redesigned planned independent requirements to support SKU data, presizing and AFS MRP.

You maintain AFS planned independent requirements by category, version, and requirements plan number. When working with planned independent requirements, you must also select whether you want to work at material level or SKU level.

If you want to maintain requirements at SKU level, you must enter a category and plant. If you work at material level, you can specify this information at a later time.

As in the standard SAP system you can copy planned independent requirements from one period or version to another, and can delete, activate, and deactivate requirements.

There is also an interface between standard SOP, flexible planning and AFS demand management. You can transfer sets of materials to AFS demand management and then manage the requirements based on AFS-specific information.

You can use the overview to view all versions, requirement plan versions, and whether the requirements are at SKU level or material level.

To activate planned independent requirements set the Active indicator in the Maintain Planned Independent Requirements screen and save. This releases the requirements for MRP. You can use several different versions of planned independent requirements and the system will include all active versions.

You cannot activate planned independent requirements until you have determined the SKU data. That means that if you enter the data without a particular category or plant, you must carry out presizing to determine these values before you can activate the planned independent requirements.

In the Customizing tables for category assignment you can determine if certain categories of sales orders consume planned independent requirements and if so, in which order.

In the AFS MRP view of the material master you can define the sequence in which the system is to consume the category and consumption mode for requirements. That means you can define whether the system should first consume by categories and then by consumption mode or vice versa.

The system updates the withdrawal quantity column when you create a delivery for a sales order which has consumed AFS planned independent requirements and you then run MRP. It also updates this column when you create a delivery and then make a manual change in AFS planned independent requirements.

• LO-PR: Forecasting is not supported

• AFS cannot write historical records at schedule line level.