Creating Planned Orders

Planned orders are generally automatically generated during a planning run. However, in certain circumstances, it may be necessary to create planned orders in the system manually. This is the case, for example, if the MRP controller wants to procure materials without taking requirements into account.

If you want to create a planned order in the system manually, proceed as follows:

1. Starting from the menu screen of material requirements planning, select Planned order
® Create.

The initial screen for creating a planned order appears.

2. Enter an Order profile. The order profiledetermines both the order type and the procurement type of the planned order.
3. Press
ENTER.

The details screen for maintaining material and order data now appears.

4. Enter the following information:

– If you want to enter the planned order number externally, fill in the Planned order field. You leave this field blank if you want the system to assign a planned order number internally.

– Enter the Planning plant, a Material number and the Order quantity.

– You must enter either the Planned end date or the Planned start date. The date not entered is automatically calculated by the system which uses the scheduling data for this purpose.

– If the planned order is not to be produced in a lot but in several partial lots, specify an appropriate Partial lot quantity and the Number of partial lots. If you specify the partial lot quantity, the system recalculates the order quantity using the partial lot quantity and the number of the partial lots.

– If you know that there will always be the same amount of production scrap for the total planned order quantity then fill in the Scrap quantity field.

– If a goods receipt processing time has already been defined for this material in the material master record, the system will then suggest it here as a default value in the GR proc. time field.

You can, however, overwrite the default value or, if the field is empty, you can enter a value. This entry has no effect on the value entered in the material master record.

– The Order profile, the Procurement type, the Special procurement type and the Account assignment type are all set automatically in this screen due to the order profile which you entered in the initial screen. Except for the account assignment type, these fields can no longer be changed.

– In the Conversion field, the planned order is automatically marked as being convertible. As a result, it can later be converted into a production order for in-house production or into a purchase requisition for external procurement.

– Since the planned order is created manually, it is automatically marked as being firmed in the Firming field. Firm planned orders will not be changed automatically by a planning run.

5. Press
ENTER.

The entered data is completed by additional texts and if you have not entered any dates, they will be calculated by the system.

The planning plant is automatically taken over as the production plant.

6. Save the planned order by selecting Planned order
® Save.

Creating Planned Orders with Reference

If you want to use an existing planned order as a reference for the creation of a new planned order, then, in the initial screen for creating planned orders you must specify the number of the planned order which you want to use as a reference in the reference section in the Planned order field. In so doing, all the data from the reference planned order will be automatically suggested in the details screen. If necessary, you can overwrite the data.