Planning Production in an Alternative Plant

Using this function, you can plan the requirements of an assembly in one plant and then actually manufacture the assembly in another plant.

In the planning table, the system provides a separate row for every planning plant that deviates from the production plant. This means that you can process the planned orders in the different planning plants separately and you can also create new planned orders specifically for one particular planning plant.

Prerequisites

Planning plant
 In the material master record of the assembly, you must maintain a special procurement key for the planning plant for production in an alternative plant.
Production plant
You must create a production version for the production plant in the material master for the assembly.

Features

In the planning table for the production plant, the system displays a separate row for every planning plant which is ready for input. This applies to the various production lines and to the planned orders which have not yet been assigned. You can process planned orders for the planning plants and for the production plant or you can create new planned orders.

When you backflush, enter the planning plant. Then, the system posts the goods receipt for the assembly in the planning plant and backflushes the components from the production plant.

Example Example

You plan an assembly in plants 0001 and 0002. However, the assembly is only produced in plant 0001. You define in the production version of the assembly that it is only produced on production line 1.

End of the example.

In the planning table for the production plant, the system displays the following rows:

Production Line/Plant	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3
Line 1 for production plant 0001	100	100	100
Line 1 for planning plant 0002	120	120	120
Not yet assigned for production plant 0001	-	-	-
Not yet assigned for planning plant 0002	-	-	-

When you make entries in these rows, the system changes the planned orders of the appropriate plant or creates planned orders in the production plant for the chosen planning plant.