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Planning Strategies
Planning Strategies
The planning strategies represent the business procedures for planning and producing a material. In the system, the planning strategies are recorded in Customizing by a combination of requirements types from Demand Management and from Sales Order Management. This combination of requirements types determines the consumption of planned independent requirements by customer requirements, or how the availability check is to be carried out. The planning strategies are maintained in Customizing for Demand Management. Here, the requirements types are combined for the planning strategy. Technically speaking, the requirements types are texts that represent the planning strategy in the application (Demand Management, Sales and Distribution). The requirements type is controlled by another key - the requirements class. The requirements class contains all the control parameters required for Demand Management and Sales and Distribution. To maintain the planning strategy, you only have to combine the necessary requirements types and the corresponding requirements class is assigned automatically along with all the accompanying control parameters. SAP recommends that you work with the planning strategies delivered in the standard system. However, if you want to change the texts of the planning strategies, you can do so via the requirements type.
You can also assign the planning strategy via the MRP group. You do this by assigning the strategy group in Customizing for Demand Management to the MRP group. In this case, the MRP group is assigned to the material in the material master record. The system determines the valid requirements type via the strategy group from the material master record and proposes this type automatically when creating independent requiremements (or customer requirements). If the strategy group contains more than one planning strategy, the system proposes the requirements type of the main strategy. If necessary, you can overwrite this proposal using one of the requirements types from the alternative strategies. Last edited by seema; 11-03-2009 at 07:26 AM. |