Creating MRP Planning Calendar: without Calculation Rule

To create a planning calendar without a calculation rule, proceed as follows:

Starting from the Material Requirements Planning menu, select, Master data

® Planning calendar ® Create periods.

The initial screen for maintaining the planning calendar now appears.

Enter the plant for which the planning calendar is to apply.

Enter a three-digit combination of numbers or letters for identifying the calendar. This entry is alphanumeric.

Press

ENTER.

The maintenance screen of the planning calendar now appears.

Enter a short description of the planning calendar.

Enter the minimum period in the Minimum period field.

The minimum period is used as a checking limit for maintaining calendars that are no longer valid. By defining the minimum period, you define a period that you can use to process a calendar that is no longer valid. As soon as this checking limit has been exceeded, the calendar is proposed automatically by the system for processing (please refer to Maintaining Calendars that are no Longer Valid). Therefore, you should make sure that the minimum period is long enough so that the planning calendar is proposed on time. You define the validity period of the planning calendar after you have specified the calculation rule.

Specify how the system should proceed if the period start happens to fall on a day that is not defined as a workday in the factory calendar.

Select Goto

® Periods.

Enter the start and finish dates as well as the number of the periods.

If you only enter start dates, the finish dates are automatically calculated by the system (except for the last finish date).

If you only enter finish dates, the system will automatically the start dates.

Save your entries.