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  Prioritized Materials Planning: User Control

Use

Prioritization of requirements results in purchase requisitions with different classifications in the system. You process purchase requisitions with a high priority and want to carry out processing yourself.

Alternatively, you can use batch control .

Prerequisites

You have made the required settings in Customizing for Defense Forces & 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

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

Selection

The screen Dialog Transaction: Prioritized Materials Planning is available for selection purposes. Based on your entries, the system creates a worklist for processing the purchase requisitions. This enables you to easily structure the selection of documents to be processed.

  • Quick Selection area

    You can make a quick selection based on the following properties:

    • If you set the High-Priority Reqs Only indicator, the system selects all purchase requisitions with the requirement priorities defined in Customizing.

    • If you set the Manual Advice Codes Only indicator, the system selects only those purchase requisitions that have an advice code for manually processing the purchase requisition.

  • Worklist area

    You can specify whether you want the system to process purchase requisitions, purchase orders, or reservations from the worklist.

    You can delimit the delivery date and the selection at material level.

  • Supplier tab page

    You use the Return Delivery View indicator for return deliveries. The entries in the following fields represent the recipient data. These are the same entries as on the Recipient tab page. Setting this indicator saves you having to make your entries on the Recipient tab page.

  • Recipient tab page

    You can select the plant, storage location, and MRP area of the receiving force element.

    If the Return Delivery View indicator is set on the Supplier tab page, the system interprets the entries made here as supplier data.

  • Purchase Requisition tab page

    You can:

    • Specify which document types are to be processed by the system

    • Delimit the MRP controllers

    • Delimit the purchase requisitions to be processed

    • Make entries in the Reqmt Priority fields to select a partial quantity from the value range defined in Customizing

    • Make entries in the Advice Code fields to restrict the document selection to documents with the relevant advice code

  • PO tab page

    You can delimit the document selection from a purchasing perspective.

  • Reservation tab page

    You can specify the type of reservations you want to process and whether forwarded reservations are to be taken into account.

Navigation

You can navigate from the Prioritized Materials Planning screen to the following areas:

  • Stock overview

  • Availability overview

  • Stock/requirements list

  • List of purchase requisitions

  • Purchase orders for purchase requisition items

  • Application log for document

  • Document linking

Processing Functions

You can process purchase requisitions on the Prioritized Materials Planning screen using various pushbuttons for the following functions:

  • Purchase Requisition tab page

    • Rescheduling

      Initiates rescheduling for the material of a selected purchase requisition.

    • Prioritized Processing (Prioritized PReq Processing)

      Initiates the automatic conversion of a purchase requisition to a purchase order, taking into account the follow-on functions defined in Customizing.

    • Change Requisition

      Allows you to make changes to the purchase requisition.

    • Release

      Releases the purchase requisition.

    • Create Purchase Order

      Starts transaction ME21N.

  • PO tab page

    • Create Deliv.

      Initiates the automatic conversion of the purchase order to a delivery.

  • Reservations tab page

    • Pick List

      Initiates the automatic creation of the pick list.

    • Prioritized Processing (Forward PReq to Reserv. List)

      Forwards unconfirmed reservation quantities to the next highest logistics level by creating a purchasing requisition.

Activities

  1. Start the Prioritized Materials Planning application (transaction code /ISDFPS/PRPLD).

    The Dialog Transaction: Prioritized Materials Planning screen appears.

  2. Make the required selection settings.

  3. Choose Execute.

    The Prioritized Materials Planning screen appears with a requisition list.

  4. Edit the purchase requisitions as required.