Background Processing of the FRP Run

You use this function to configure a process control profile. You can either control the FRP run through the FRP Dispatcher or schedule report /FRE/FRP_MID_BASIC for background processing.

Note Note

You cannot use both options. If you have activated the FRP Dispatcher, you cannot use report /FRE/FRP_MID_BASIC.

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Prerequisites

You must assign the process control profile to the relevant location in Administration.

Features

If you use the FRP Dispatcher:
- Once you activate and start the Dispatcher in the operative system, it keeps a service program (daemon) active in the background that starts the FRP run automatically, once a day (usually at night), for all the configured locations.
- If you have to restart the FRP run (in case of technical problems on the application server, for example) you have the following options:
  - You can use report /FRE/UI_FRP_PROC_LOC_BY_DISP to reset the status of the affected locations. The Dispatcher processes them again, even if it has already processed them for that planning date.
    If you start the report for all locations, the system takes any existing order proposals into account as open purchase orders, and does not create them again. If you deleted the new order proposals before starting the report, however, the system creates them again.
  - You can run report /FRE/UI_FRP_PROC_LOC_AFTER_ERR after you have corrected the errors for all locations (or for the locations that were not processed completely: In this case, processing only executes the steps of the FRP run that have not been processed yet (as specified in the Dispatcher profile) after the last successfully processed step.
If you do not use the FRP Dispatcher:

To execute automatic replenishment, you have to schedule processing of program /FRE/FRP_MID_BASIC once a day as a background job. The F&R Processor performs automatic replenishment according to your settings in the process control profile.

SAP F&R can process the individual process steps in automatic replenishment (calculating replenishment, DIF processing, and importing and exporting files) at different times. In a repeat run, you can either repeat the entire replenishment process or start from a certain process step (for example, if the process step was not executed successfully or if a program terminates). SAP F&R has to perform the process steps in the defined numeric order (for example, process step 1 cannot follow process step 3).

Activities

For more information about the process control profile, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Forecasting and Replenishment under Start of the navigation path Forecasting and Replenishment Processor Next navigation step Maintain Process Control Profiles End of the navigation path .