Total Planning 
Total Planning
Use
Use the SAP standard total planning if you want to plan all AFS materials that have been flagged for planning, at the same time for one plant.
Features
You can plan both standard and AFS materials for one or several plants together. The AFS BOM can contain both standard and AFS components that are planned together for one material in the planning run. You can automatically carry out the total planning run online or within defined periods in the background. The application is run either in the SAP standard or in AFS.
To plan AFS materials in the total planning run, you must activate the
parallel processing.
To execute the total planning run, you can choose the following processing keys: Net change planning, net change planning in the planning horizon and regenerative planning.
AFS offers only two options: Net change planning in the planning horizon and regenerative planning. To carry out the net change planning in the planning horizon for AFS materials, you can choose either processing keys net change planning or net change planning in the planning horizon.
Note that if you use the processing key net change planning in the planning horizon, the definition of the planning horizon for the planning of AFS materials does not correspond to the planning of standard materials. This is because AFS materials are always planned in the planning horizon (see
To execute the regenerative planning for AFS materials for one or several plants, you can choose all entry combinations between the processing key regenerative planning and all planning modes. The AFS materials are then planned according to the standard materials.
You can read the MRP status of the material to be planned from both the AFS stock/ requirements list and the AFS MRP list. The MRP status is stored in the planning file (environment).
AFS Restrictions
Schedule lines are not supported for the MRP of AFS materials.