Use

The system displays several production lines and materials according to the selection criteria you entered on the initial screen of the planning table. If you want to narrow down this selection further before you access the planning table, you can branch into the Material - Collective Display or the Line Selection Screen first.

Prerequisites

In Customizing for the planning table, under Maintain Entry Parameters , you can define certain settings for the initial screen. These include, for example:

Features

You access the planning table per plant for a certain period of time that is automatically proposed if you have made the appropriate settings in Customizing. You can also specify the time bucket, for example, shift, day, week or month or planning calendar.

The initial screen is split into several selection areas and tap pages:

Select by lines

You can select by production line or by a work center hierarchy or by a node in the work center hierarchy (this is a certain work center in a work center hierarchy).

You can limit the selection further using a planning ID or an MRP controller.

Select by materials

You can select by material, product group, class, class type or MRP controller.

You can limit the selection by MRP controller further by specifying an MRP type, an ABC indicator or a plant-specific material status.

Selection control

If you select this field, the system first branches to the Collective Display of the Planning Table before accessing the planning table itself. In this collective display, the system lists all materials that correspond to your line or material selections on the initial screen, so that you can edit them further.

If you select this field, the system first displays all production lines in a dialog box that correspond to your selections on the initial screen before accessing the planning table. Select the production lines that you want displayed in the planning table.

If you select the field Only mats with production , the system only displays materials with production quantities in the planning table.

To display comparison data from long-term planning, enter the number of a planning scenario. In the planning table, the system then displays the data from long-term planning in a separate line per material which you can use for comparison.

Capacity planning/scheduling

If you select the field Capacity planning , the system displays the capacity data of the selected lines in the planning table. The capacity requirements and the production dates are calculated using either detailed planning or rate-based planning depending on your settings.

Here you determine whether, in the planning table, the planned orders and the run schedule quantities are sorted in the individual buckets on the basis of the order finish date or the production finish date.

Here you determine how scheduling is to be carried out in the planning table, for example, backward or forward scheduling.

MRP segments

You can select the MRP segments from the MRP list that are relevant for the planning table. Only the MRP results for these segments are copied to the planning table.

For example, if you select net requirements planning and make-to-order, the requirements and results of the net segment and of make-to-order planning are transferred to the planning table where they can both be processed.

Activities

When selecting the planning objects, the system proceeds as follows:

If you select production lines on the initial screen, the system searches for all materials that are produced on these lines.

If you select materials on the initial screen, the system searches for all lines on which these materials can be produced.

For more information, please refer to Accessing the Planning Table by Lines and Accessing the Planning Table by MRP Controller .