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 Prioritized Materials Planning: Batch Control

Use

Prioritization of requirements results in purchase requisitions with different classifications in the system. You can continue processing these purchase requisitions systematically using batch control.

Alternatively, you can continue processing using user control .

Prerequisites

You have made the required settings in Customizing for Defense Forces and Public Security by choosing Start of the navigation path Materials Management Next navigation step Requirement Prioritization Next navigation step Prioritized Materials Planning End of the navigation path .

Features

In the case of batch processing, the system carries out the following actions in accordance with the settings made in Customizing:

  • It carries out an availability check, if required by the document type.

  • It can change the supplier in order to trigger the requirement to be forwarded.

  • It can trigger the requirement to be forwarded to the next logistics level.

  • It can create deliveries.

You can carry out the process with or without workflow control .

Activities

  1. Start the application Background Processing of Prioritized Materials Planning (transaction /ISDFPS/PRPLB ).

    The selection screen of the same name appears.

  2. Make the required selection settings.

    If you set the High-Priority Requirements indicator, the system selects all the purchase requisitions with the requirement priorities defined in Customizing. This results in the following:

    • If you are working with the release procedure for purchase requisitions, the system takes into account only released open purchase requisitions. See also Customizing for Materials Management under Start of the navigation path Purchasing Next navigation step Purchase Requisition Next navigation step Release Procedure End of the navigation path . Otherwise, the system selects all open purchase requisitions.

    • The system does not select any reservations.

    • The system does not carry out rescheduling.

      In the Reqmt Priority fields, you can specify a subset of the value range defined in Customizing.

      If you make entries in the Advice Code fields, the system processes only the purchase requisitions that contain the specified advice codes.

  3. Choose Execute.

    The system starts processing the purchase requisitions in accordance with the settings made in Customizing.