Planning ID as a grouping criteria

The planning ID is used as a grouping criteria that enables you to find production versions or run schedule headers via evaluations more easily.

In the planning table, you can limit your selections according to production line by entering a planning ID. This makes sense if you can produce various materials on one production line but you do not want to process them all at the same time. This means that you can use the planning ID to group all materials that are produced in a certain size of packaging, for example.

You can then group materials together and create a planning ID for each group.

You then enter the planning ID in the production versions for the materials.

If, in the initial screen for the planning table, you select by production line and also enter the planning ID, the system only selects materials with the same planning ID for processing.

Planning ID for quantity scheduling

You can also use planning IDs to plan quantities on a simplified line basis without capacity planning as you can display totals for the planning ID in the planning table. This makes sense if you work with varying units of measure.

For example, you could have the production unit “case” for drinks, and the system would determine the amount of bottles in the case.

In order to do this, you must give the planning ID the same number as the production line. You enter the conversion factor for the varying unit of measure in the material master.

You access the planning table by Production line. The planning table then also displays the total production quantities for the varying unit of measure.