Carrying Out Total Planning MM Consumption-Based Planning

To carry out total planning for a certain plant, proceed as follows:

1. Starting from the menu screen of material requirements planning, select MRP
® Total planning.

The initial screen for the material requirements planning now appears.

2. Specify the plant for which you want to carry out total planning.

In the MRP Control parameters section, you can enter different parameters for the planning run.

Processing key

You determine the type of the planning run via the processing key:

neupl regenerative planning

netch for net change planning

netpl for net change planning in the planning horizon

Creation indicator for purchase requisitions

This indicator only refers to externally procured materials and is only valid if it is not automatically determined by the material type. You have three possibilities:

1 purchase requisitions are always created

2 within the opening period, purchase requisitions are created, outside it,
planned orders are created

3 planned orders are always created

Creation indicator for MRP lists

You control the creation of MRP lists with this indicator:

1 an MRP list is always created

2 an MRP list is created depending on the exceptional situation

3 no MRP list is created



To save the parameters for susequent planning runs, select Settings ® Save parameters. These parameters will then be set as default values in the following planning runs.

3. Press
ENTER.

You receive a description for each of your entries.

You can now change the parameters again. If you change the parameters, press ENTER again and you get a second chance to check your entries.

4. To start the planning run, press
ENTER.

When the planning run is finished, you receive the run-time statistics.

From the statistics, you can gain information on the extent of the planning run, on how many exception messages were created and on the number of terminations.

Furthermore, you can see how much time was needed for the total planning run as well as for the individual materials. The total run-time is the CPU time needed. In the Sec column you see the accumulated CPU time for the individual materials.

To limit the extent of these statistics, you can adjust the number of the materials to be displayed in customizing.

When carrying out total planning in background mode, you can make a printout of the statistics.