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| What are the org levels in Material Planning? |
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| All manufacturing org elements exist within what org level? |
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| In MP, what does a plant do/represent? |
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-produces goods, renders services, or makes goods avail for distribution
-a lot happens at this level |
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| What is the Material Planning Master Data? |
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| Material Master, BOM, Routings |
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| What are the Material Planning Material Master views that must be maintained? |
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| Material Req. Planning (MRP) and Execution (Work Scheduling) must be maintained |
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| What Material Master views/data is used by various man. planning and execution processes? |
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| Basic Data, Accting, QM, Forecasting, Purchasing, and Classification Data |
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| Where is Basic Data stored at and applicable to? |
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| Applicable to entire company and is stored at CLIENT LEVEL |
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| What is in the Basic Data tab in the Material Master in MP? (examples) |
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| product description, material number, material group, unit of measure, conversion factors |
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| What is in the MRP tab in the Material Master in MP? (examples) |
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| procurement type, MRP controller, lot size key |
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| What is in the Work Scheduling tab in the Material Master in MP? (examples) |
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| lot size times, in-house prod. time, tolerance data |
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| What is in the Accounting tab in the Material Master in MP? (examples) |
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| What is MRP type specify? |
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| specifies how a material should be planned (ie. MRP, consumption based planning, no planning) |
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| Where is a safety stock set? |
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| In the material master for MP, under MRP 1 |
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| What does the strategy group in the MP Material Master tell? |
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| the behavior of planning independent requirements (PIRs) |
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| What takes place on the basis of the availability check group? |
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| control of the "Available to Promise" |
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| What are examples of material types? |
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- Raw Materials
- Operating Supplies
- Semi-Finished Products
- Finished Products |
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| What is the most important value assigned to a material? And what does it identify? |
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| the material type; It identifies the business processes and functions allowed. |
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| What are some things that the material type can determine? |
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| screens, department-specific data tats maintained, how material number assigned is carried out, procurement types allowed (in house or ext), G/L accts that are updated |
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| contains assemblies or components that are to be included in the prod of a material; are single-level; items of the BOM can have a BOM on their own |
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| MRP, production, procurement, and product costing |
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| What does a BOM consist of? What are in each? |
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Header: status, descr., valididty, lot size area
Items: Item category (stock, non-stock, variable size, doc item), descrs, qtys, control data |
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| What are the item categories in BOM? |
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stock, non-stock, variable size, text, doc, class, intra material
**must assign to EVERY component when you add of change comp of a COM |
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| What does item category in BOM influence? |
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| processing of the component (whether or not needs a material master) |
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| contain the steps that are necessary for production; corresponding operations, sequences, and the work centers in which these operations are to be executed |
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| What can be transferred to SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) in the form of production process models (PPMs)? |
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| How is a routing defined? What does it contain? |
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routing group and the group counter.
contains ref material to the mat. whose production it describes
contains the time elements that are relevant for sched. operations (thus, need to make sure routing contains own base qty) |
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| What are the two courses for routings? |
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| parallel and alternative sequences |
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| What is the MP Process/Overview? |
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| LIS at the Top: SOP --> Sales --> Demand Mgnt --> Material Reqs --> Production Execution |
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| What is Sales and Operations Planning? How used? |
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SOP; planning and forecasting module within LIS area
Use SOP to help forecast future sales, develop prod plans, and perform feasibility studies |
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| What does the planning table in SOP resemble? |
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| What are product groups? What is required? |
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groups "like" products together/with similar planning characteristics; (think of the hierarchy chart with %); lowest product grp must have materials as it's "members"(labels)
***a proportion factor is required |
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| What is a proportion factor? |
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Definition
the used of a percent to equal 100%
-used when a sales plan or prod plan at a higher level is "disaggregated" to a lower level; can be 0(zero) |
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| What exists for all members of the product group hierarchy? |
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| What is included in the SOP planning table? |
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| row for sales plan, prod plan, stock level, target stock, days supply, and target days supply |
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| What can time periods in SOP Planning Table be? |
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| days, wks, months, or combo |
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| How can a sales plan be created from SOP Planning Table? |
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Definition
- transfer data from SIS
- trasnfer data from CO/PA analysis model
-using history to forecast
- transferring data from another product group
- manual |
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| What are the ways in which a production plan can be created from the SOP Planning Table? |
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Definition
- equal to sales plan
- target stock level
- target days supply
- inv to zero
- manual |
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| Creating a sales plan or prod plan at one level of the Product Structure Hierarchy doesn't auto-create _______. So what must occur? |
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| lower levels; we must disaggregate |
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| What are some options for disaggregating? |
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-disaggregate the prod plan of prod grp 1
-disaggregate the sales plan of PG1
-simply disaggregate the sales plans of all the PGs down to the materials and develop prod plans at that level
-transfer planning data of all members w/in a single level PG to demand management
-can have diff plans for each PG structure bc each plan is saver w/a version # and description |
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| How is a plan sent to demand management? |
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Definition
| After disaggregation, and through the active or inactive version of the planning |
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Term
| What is Demand Management? |
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Definition
| pertains to the administration of independent reqs |
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Term
| Independent Reqs Type or their plannign strategy determines what? |
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| how independent reqs behave in MRP |
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| What are Planned Independent Requirements? |
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| (PIR); warehouse reqs that can be derived from a forecast of the future req situation (cuz don't wanna have to wait for the procurement, deliv times, etc.) |
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| What are Customer Independent Requirements? (other name) |
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| ie. Sales Orders; created by sales and districution; can be received firectly in MRP, independently of their req type (this is what's desired when cust.-specific planning occurs) |
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| What is possible with PIRs? |
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| What do Sales Orders and PIRs created together? |
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| What are the two ways Sales Orders can serve? |
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- as exclusive reqs
- together with PIRs |
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| Aggregate Historical Dtat is ______________, while Future Demand Forecast is ____________ |
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| quantitative; qualitative |
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| What do sales orders represent? |
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| a req in the supplying plant |
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| What are the Planning Strategies in MP? |
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| Make-to-stock, subassembly, Make-to-order |
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| production due to make to stock planning, reqs covered by warehouse stock |
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| make to stock prod for assmeblies |
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| finsihed products to indv cust stock using make to order prod and where necessary, assmeblies to stock using materials to stock |
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| What does Sales-Order Based prod deal with? |
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Definition
| deals w/a product that is procured for an existing sales order; not with planning |
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| What is planning w/final assembly? |
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| flexible or fast reaction to cust demand is prominent; as smooth a prod process is wanted; So often affect req and consume PIRs, If cust req exceed PIRs, the system auto creates a planned order for the unplanned qty in the next MRP run |
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| What does Consumption Mode determine? |
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the direction on the time axis in which the arriving sales order are to consume the PIRS; backward or forward consumption or backward and forward
**defined in the materials master or for each MRP group |
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| What is the purpose of the Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and MRP? |
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guarantee availability on a two step planning process
**MPS is optional in the planning process |
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***option in planning process; usually materials that greatly influence the company profits or dominate the rod procedure.
-idea is to schedule these products first resolving any capacity etc probs and then execute MRP; can run results in planned orders for the master schedule items and depended reqs |
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| What does the MRP type define? Where is it entered? |
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| the basic planning type; MRP 1 view of the material master |
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| What are the two types of planning of a material? |
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| consumption and MRP based |
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| What is MRP based planning? |
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| takes current and future sales as its reference point and is executed for the whole BOM structure; the planned reqs qty (PIR or SO) triggers reqs calcs |
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| What is consumption-based planning? |
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| based on consumption values in the past and uses forecast or statistical procedures to determine future reqs; mostly used on low valued parts "B and C parts" |
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| Where is net requirements calculation used? What triggers it? |
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consumption based planning; triggered when stock levels fall below a reorder point or by forecast reqs in consumpton based
In MRP; when a material shortage exists for a certain material |
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| What happens if MRP discovers a shortage qty in MP? |
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procurement protocols are generated;
- net requirements calculation execution
- result of NRC is qty avail
- if qty avail for planning is less than 0, there's a shortage
- new procurement protocols are created (purch req or planned order, independently of procure type)
- suggested procurement qty results from lot-size procedure (set in Material Master) |
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| What are internal planning elements that can be changed, rescheduled, or deleted at any time? |
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| purch req and planned orders |
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| How are Planned Orders and purchase reqs created in MRP when there's a shortage? |
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In house prod: planned order for the prod qty is created, when planning complete, planned orders can be turned into prod orders
In Ext Prod: system creates either planned oder or purch req or a scheudl likne for a pre existing scheduling agreement. When planning completed, Planned order -> purchase req _> PO |
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| What are the two ways MRP can be executed? Define both |
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-Total Planning for all materials: takes place over all BOM levels
-Individual planning: plan a material seperately; only header material is planned |
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| What happens to Dependent Reqs once a planned order is converted into a prod order? |
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| transferred to order reservations |
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| What are the five components of MRP? |
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1) Net Reqs Planning
2) Lot Size Determination
3) Procurement TYpe
4) Scheduling
5) BOM Explosion |
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| What is Multilevel Backward Scheduling? |
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| system calculates nec. start dates based on predefined end date; MRP reacts to ehe reqs needed for finished prod; Procurement prposals created for finished prod and dep. reqs for the components are calculated via BOM explosion; if dep reqs date is the avail date (or before the avail date) the system uses backward scheduling |
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| What are the two levels that the planning run in MRP is carried out at? |
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-total planning for a plant: encompasses all materials relevant to MRP for this plant and includes BOM explosion for materials w/BOMs (possible to execute for several plants or MRP areas) - Can be online or run in background
-for individual material (can be specific material only(single level) or for all BOM levels(multilevel) |
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| List the Planning Levels for MRP Run. |
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Total Planning (planning of all materials of one or several plants)
Online
As Background Job
- Ind. Planning (multilevel): planning of a materials BOM
- Ind. Planning (single level): planning of a material
- Ind. Planning (interactive): interactive single-level planning |
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| Regenerative Planning (processing key) |
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planning of all MRP-relevant materials (NEUPL)
**enables you to carry our planning run in short time intervals |
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| Net Change for Total Horizon (processing key) |
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| -planning all materials which have undergone a change relevant to the planning run (NETCH) |
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| Net Change for Planning Horizon (processing key) |
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-planning all materials for which MRP-relevant changes have been made in the planning horizon
-planning w/in the planning horizon only |
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| What are the control parameters for MRP are required for the planning run? Defn. |
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- Processing Key: Regen planning or net change planning over whole period/ or restricted to planning horizon
1 - purch req
2 - purch req for the opening period
3 - planned orders
- Indicators: "Create Purchase Req" and "Schedule Lines" (only relevant for materials produced ext.)
1 - no sched. lines
2 - sched lines in the opening period
3 - schedule lines
- Decide if going to make MRP lists
1 - always
2 - only for exception message
3 - never
- Planning mode: defines if existing planning data should simply be adjusted, whether BOMs and routings should re-explode, whether the planning should be started from beginning to end
1 - adjust data
2 - new BOM and routing
3 - delete planning data |
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| contains UP-TO-DATE info on he current status of stocks, reqs, and receipts; able to view changes immediately; elements reread from database when "refresh" is hit |
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| depicts the result of the latest planning run (Static!); changes made after planning run cannot be seen (you can control whether or not this list is generated during the planning run |
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| What two list that are generated in the MP Process are the same? What is both of their basic structures? |
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MRP List (planning run/static) & Stocks/Reqs List (current/dynamic)
Basic Structure:
- links are in the form of a tree for the work list of the MRP Controller
- above the list is the header with the material # (can display other header data)
- list itself contains the individual MRP elements and the corresponding avail qtys |
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Definition
- used to plan the "in-house" production of a material
- already contain the basic data w/in which production should take place
-contain the component reqs (dependent reqs) for the components that are needed for prod. |
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Term
| What can be executed based on Planned Orders? |
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| Capacity Requirements Planning |
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| What is the ultimate execution of production? |
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| planned order --> production order(PP) or process order(PP-PI) |
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| For ext. procured materials, how can the planning of procurement take place? |
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means of planned orders or purchase reqs:
-if planned orders first, they have to be converted to purchase reqs
**or planning can come from scheduling agreement release |
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| Compare: Planning Steps/Defn (indicator) and Planning Levels |
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Definition
+ Profitability Analysis(CO/PA):
- rev plans
- sales plans (qtys)
Planning Level: Region 1 or 2
+ Sales and Operations Planning(SOP):
- sales plan
- prod. plans
Planning Level: product group
+ Master Production Scheduling(MPS):
- demand program
- Adjusted Master Plan
Planning Level: Product 1 or 2
+ Material Requirements Planning(MRP):
- dependent req
- planned production
- procurement plan
Planning Level: Assembly 1 or 2 (over: part 1 or 2) |
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| What is the Net Requirements Calculation comprised of? |
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stock and fixed receipts that currently exist (purch orders, prod orders, fixed purch reqs and planned orders) are compared with the safety stock and requirements
**the result is the qty avail for planning |
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