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1. OVERVIEW.................................................................................................................................. 4
2. MASTER DATA............................................................................................................................5
2.1 FACTORY CALENDAR................................................................................................................5
2.1.1 overview.............................................................................................................................5
2.1.2 BUSINESS REQUIREMENT..............................................................................................5
2.1.3 BLUEPRINT....................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 BILLS OF MATERIALS................................................................................................................6
2.2.1 Overview............................................................................................................................ 6
2.2.2 Business Requirement.......................................................................................................6
2.2.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................14
2.3 Material Master PP Related Fields............................................................................................14
2.3.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 14
2.3.2 Business requirement.......................................................................................................14
2.4 WORK CENTRES...................................................................................................................... 15
2.4.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 15
2.4.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................16
2.4.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................16
2.5 ROUTINGS................................................................................................................................ 16
2.5.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 16
2.5.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................16
2.5.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................17
2.6 ENGINEERING CHANGE NUMBER (ECN)..............................................................................17
2.6.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 17
2.6.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................17
2.6.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................17
3. PRODUCTION PLANNING.......................................................................................................18
3.1 DEMAND MANAGEMENT.........................................................................................................18
3.1.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 18
3.1.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................18
3.1.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................18
3.2 LONG TERM PLANNING..........................................................................................................18
3.2.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 18
3.2.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................19
3.2.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................19
3.3 MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING (MRP).....................................................................19
3.3.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 19
3.3.2 Business Requirements...................................................................................................19
3.3.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................20
3.4 PRODUCTION CONTROL........................................................................................................21
3.4.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 21
3.4.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................22
3.4.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................24
3.5 ORDER INFORMATION SYSTEM............................................................................................25
3.5.1 Overview.......................................................................................................................... 25
3.5.2 Business Requirement.....................................................................................................25
3.5.3 Blueprint...........................................................................................................................25
4. BUSINESS PROCESSES.........................................................................................................26
4.1 Master Data Maintenance Process............................................................................................26
4.1.1 BOM Maintenance............................................................................................................26
4.1.2 Work Centre Maintenance................................................................................................26
4.1.3 Routing Maintenance.......................................................................................................27
4.2 Demand Planning Process........................................................................................................27
4.3 Weekly MRP Process................................................................................................................ 27
4.4 Process SMD Production Plan...................................................................................................28
4.5 Long Term Planning Process.....................................................................................................29
4.6 Creation of Costing BOMs.........................................................................................................29
5. Customised Reports & Interfaces..............................................................................................31
1. OVERVIEW
ABC Egypt is the pilot market for the Symphony+ implementation in-line with the AME ERP
Convergence Project.
The business requirements are based on a two company code organisation structure being adopted to
reflect the business scenarios of ABC Egypt (ABCE - Legal entity) and Eastern Corporation (EC -
External entity – Sub-contract manufacturer).
From the production planning perspective, ABCE will be primarily facilitating the materials planning and
procurement for ABC SKUs (Rothmans & Kent) and filter components for EC products; and
subcontracting activities with EC. In the near future, a subcontract manufacturing process will be
required for the new and fully imported SKU, Vogue, which will be added to the ABCE family of SKUs.
ABCE does not have production activities. All SMD production activities are subcontracted to EC.
ABCE will be reflected on the SAP system as a Legal entity.
EC will facilitate the materials planning for own use (Viceroy) and planning for the manufacturing of
ABCE SKUs and filters. This will enable ABCE to monitor details of production that cannot be captured
currently i.e. production cost; production variances; material wastage; etc. EC will be reflected on the
SAP system as a dummy entity.
The Production Planning module will be used for the Shopfloor operation.
The following functions of Production Planning will be implemented and detailed
Master data
o Bills of materials (BOM) with Engineering Change Number (ECN).
o Work Centres
o Routings
Production Planning
o Demand Planning
o Long Term Planning
Materials Requirement Planning
Production Control
o Create, Change & Cancel production orders
o Stock/Requirements List
o Mass Processing of production orders
o Collective Availability Checks
o Collective Release of production orders
o Goods Issue to production orders
o Goods Receipt to production orders
o Individual confirmation of production order
o Collective confirmation of production orders
o Reprocessing of errors in goods movement
o Period end closing
Variance calculation
Order Settlement
Order Information System
Customised Reports
Interface
2. MASTER DATA
1.1 OVERVIEW
The factory calendar is defined on the basis of a public holiday calendar. The validity period of a factory
calendar must be within the validity period of the public holiday calendar. The public holiday and factory
calendar is a central module in the SAP System. It is assigned to a specific plant during the initial
system setup and therefore used in many areas (e.g. in Logistics and in Human Resources) in the
system.
The weekdays that are working days must also be specified in this calendar.
Example
Monday through Friday is working days.
Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays are non-working days.
The calendar system consists of the following components:
Public holidays
Definitions for public holidays: Calculation rule for date, religious denomination etc.
Public holiday calendar
A composition of public holiday rules.
Factory calendar
Definition of workdays including special regulations, under the assignment of a particular public holiday
calendar.
1.3 BLUEPRINT
Settings for factory calendar will be configured in the system as per below
Setting Values Remarks
Define public holidays None
Define public holiday ID: EG
calendar Desc: Holiday calendar - Egypt
Define factory calendar ID: EG
Desc: Factory calendar - Egypr
Assignment to Plant Plant EG01 Linking of factory calendar to plant.
Factory calendar EG
Plant EG90
Factory calendar EG
1.4 OVERVIEW
Bill of Materials or commonly called BOM is a formally structured list of components that make up a
product or assembly. The list contains the material number of the component together with the quantity
and unit of measure.
BOMs are used in their different forms in various situation where a finished product is assembled from
several component parts or materials. Depending on the industry sector, they can also be called
recipes or lists of ingredient and so on.
BOMS contain important basic data for numerous areas of a company, for example :
o MRP
o Material provision for production
o Product costing
o Plant maintenance – ABCE and EC is not using Plant Maintenance
ABCE BOMs:
ABCE SKU: Rothmans
o BOM for Filters are created for Sub-contracting process. Plug wrap and Filter Tow are
required in the BOM for materials planning as they are purchased from ABCUKE. (Refer
Example1)
ABCE will purchase the Plug Wrap and Filter Tow from ABCUKE.
ABCE will raise a Sub-con PO for to EC (NOT EG90) for Filter Rods by
providing them the Plug Wrap and Filter Tow as Material Provided to Vendor.
ABCE will Goods Receipt Filter Rods and consume the Plug Wrap and Filter
Tow automatically.
o Phantom BOM is required for the Cigs which consists of the Filter Rods, Cut Rag and
other component that make up of the Cigs.
o ABCE will raised a Sub-Con PO for Finished Goods and supplied them with Filter Rods
and the rest of the components that make up of the finished goods. (Refer Example 2)
o Production BOM for SKUs Finished Goods: Components will consist of all cigarette raw
materials and wrapping materials to enable planning for supply to EC. Cutrag quantity will
be based on 100% usage (perfect usage). At the point of FG subcontract goods receipt,
the user will adjust the quantities accordingly based on actual usage of cutrag only.
o The same SKU is able to be produced at 2 different machines, i.e. GD and Focke & Protos
(FP), and thus the component used in any of the machine could be different from the
others.
o The approach is to create two alternative BOM to represent the actual component used for
the different machine at the time of production. Each alternative BOM is represented as a
Production Version.
o PIR will be uploaded based on Production Version and each upload for different
Production Version has to be differentiated by ONE day difference. This is because for the
same material uploaded for the same day, even though for different production version, the
system will combined the two PIR into one Planned Order and apply the first Production
Version. Therefore in order to overcome the above issue mentioned, PIR for different
versions of the same materials were to be uploaded with ONE day of difference between
the two versions. Refer the below example to further explained:
Material Plant Prod Version D01072005 D02072005 D08072005 D09072005
10001 EG90 001 100 200
10001 EG90 002 250 300
o EG01: Production BOM for Filters, Phantom BOM for Cigs and Production BOM for FG
(EXCLUDE of SHORTS)
o EG90: Phantom BOM for Cigs and Production BOM for FG (INCLUDE of SHORTS).
Filter Rods
Legend:
Example 2:
EG01-ABCE SKU: Rothmans & Kent - Production BOM for Finished Goods
Finished Goods
Rothmans
Cigs Blanks Alum. Foil Inner Frame Poly Display Carton Final Case
Legend:
Finished Goods
Sampling Mat
Cigs Blanks Alum. Foil Inner Frame Poly Display Carton Final Case
Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling
Legend:
Example 4:
EG01-ABCE Imported SKU: Vogue – Sub-contracting BOM for Finished Goods
Finished Goods
Banderole
Legend:
EC BOMs:
EC SKU: Viceroy
o No BOMs is required to be created at EG01 as EG01 will purchase Viceroy as a whole
from EC.
o However, ABCE will do the planning of materials and production for Viceroy in EG90.
o Production BOM for Filter will be created in EG90 for planning of materials such as Plug
Wrap and Filter Tow. (Refer to Example 5)
o Production BOM for Finished Goods (Viceroy) will be created in EG90 for planning of
materials and production. MRP to be run to plan for the Materials. Cutrag quantity will be
based on 100% usage (perfect usage) and shorts quantity will be 0.01 units. At the point
of production backflush, the user will adjust the quantities accordingly based on actual
usage of cutrag AND shorts.
o Costing BOM to be created the same as production BOM in EG90 for standard cost
estimate run.
o The same SKU is able to be produced at 2 different machines, i.e. GD and Focke & Protos
(FP), and thus the component used in any of the machine could be different from the
others.
o The approach is to create two alternative BOM to represent the actual component used for
the different machine at the time of production. Each alternative BOM is represented as a
Production Version.
o PIR will be uploaded based on Production Version and each upload for different
Production Version has to be differentiated by ONE day difference. This is because for the
same material uploaded for the same day, even though for different production version, the
system will combined the two PIR into one Planned Order and apply the first Production
Version. Therefore in order to overcome the above issue mentioned, PIR for different
versions of the same materials were to be uploaded with ONE day of difference between
the two versions. Refer the below example to further explained:
Material Plant Prod Version D01072005 D02072005 D08072005 D09072005
10001 EG90 001 100 200
10001 EG90 002 250 300
o EG01: No BOMs needed
o EG90: Production BOM for Filters, Phantom BOM for Cigs, Production BOM for FG
Example 5:
EG90-EC SKU: Viceroy – Production BOM for Finished Goods
Finished Goods
Viceroy
Shorts Cigs Blanks Alum. Foil Inner Frame Poly Display Carton Final Case
Legend:
Finished Goods
Rothmans/Kent
Shorts Cigs Blanks Alum. Foil Inner Frame Poly Display Carton Final Case
Legend:
Finished Goods
Sampling Mat
Cigs Blanks Alum. Foil Inner Frame Poly Display Carton Final Case
Shorts
Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling
Legend:
Recommendations to consider for procurement of filter rod materials: Plasticiser, Glue and
Anchorage.
However this process will stick to As-Is for now. Currently, filter rod materials: Plasticiser, Glue
and Anchorage, are collectively purchased and supplied by EC for all ABCE and EC SKUs. On
a monthly basis, EC will bill ABCE for the usage of the said items. This invoice sent from EC
will be settled against the Sub-Con PO raised by ABCE to EC for the production of Filter Rods.
Manufacturing Fees for Filter Rods are lumped together at the Finished Goods Manufacturing
Fees.
To meet product costing requirements and to simplify and facilitate the the logistics process,
the below proposed process is recommended:
1) ABCE will raise a monthly purchase requisition / purchase order to EC for the purchase
of the said items based on ABCE SKU production plan.
2) EC will raise a collective pruchase requisition / purchase order to external vendor for
the collective purchase of the said items based on ABCE and EC SKU production
plan.
3) For Inventory Management for ABCE SKUs (Rothmans and Kent):
When ABCE raised the Sub-Con PO to the EC for Finished Goods (ONLY
ABCE SKUs, Rothmans and Kent), the Subcontracting BOM will explode and
all the raw materials and semi-finished will be supplied to EC thru Material
Provided to Vendor.
At the same time, the EG90 will do a GR without PO (Movement Type 501)
into the EG90 for those raw materials and semi-finished provided.
Once the production is finished in EG90, EG90 will receipt the Finished
Goods into the WH and consumed the raw materials and semi-finished.
Then EG90 will perform a Goods Issue out from the Warehouse for the
Finished Goods.
At the same time, EG01 will perform a Goods Receipt against the Sub-con
PO and then consumed the raw materials and semi-finished that was under
Materials Provided to Vendor.
4) However for EC SKU (Viceroy), EG90 will raised PO for the raw materials and semi-
finished materials. Upon the receipt of the raw materials and semi-finished goods,
EG90 will perform a GR agianst PO (Movement Type 101).
5) EC will invoice ABCE accordingly on a monthly basis for:
Manufacturing Fee for Filter Rods and SMD
Plasticizer, Glue and Anchorage
Benefit:
1) Production costing – Will be able to capture actual cost of the items for each order.
2) Logistics – Will be able to support the subcontract purchasing process for finished
goods and allow for stock visibility.
3) Finance – Allow for proper control of the invoice process.
1.6 BLUEPRINT
The following unique configuration setups should be done prior to performing business
transaction for Bills of Materials (BOM). Other than the below configuration, the rest will be
standard SAP configuration setting.
1.7 OVERVIEW
In SAP, generally the material master fields for PP application are found in the following material master
views:
MRP 1 (To control what MRP type and Lot Sizing to use)
MRP 2 (To control special procurement procedure and lead time scheduling)
MRP 3 (To control the production strategy use e.g. make-to-stock etc.)
MRP 4 (To control procurement of new materials on exhaustion of old materials)
Work Scheduling (To control certain aspect of production scheduling and define under and
over-delivery tolerances of semi-finished goods or finished goods)
MRP 1 view:
Generally all PP related materials i.e. Finished Goods (FG), Semi-finished goods, Raw materials will be
set to “PD” (i.e. PD = dependent requirement trigger from higher level BOM item).
On lot sizing, there will be options to use parameters like “EX” (Lot-for-lot order quantity), or periodic lot
size such as “WB” (Weekly lot size), or “MB” (Monthly lot size).
The MRP group is recommended to be used for assigning special control parameters for the total
planning run. These control parameters include, for example, the strategy group, the consumption
mode, and the planning horizon.
MRP 2 view:
The following are the recommended parameters to be maintained:
Procurement type “E” (In-house production) for all FG and Semi-finished goods.
Procurement type “F” (External procurement) for all raw materials.
Procurement type “X” (Both procurement types) for some finished goods that are procured from
external party as well as manufactured in-house.
Special procurement type
o “50” (Phantom assembly) will be set for phantom BOM item.
o “30” (Subcontracting) will be set for Subcontracting Finished Goods
“In-house production time” and “GR processing time” parameters will be maintained for FG and
Semi-finished goods in order to define production lead time.
“Planned delivery time” and “GR processing time” parameters will be maintained for raw
materials in order to define procurement lead time.
MRP 3 view:
For SKUs, the followings are the recommended parameters to be maintained:
Strategy group “10” (Make-to-stock production) will be set for Finished Goods (FG).
Note: Not required to be set if MRP group is to be used in MRP1 view.
1.9 OVERVIEW
Operations are carried out at work centre. In R/3 system, work centres are business objects
that can represent the following real work centres, for example :
o Machines, machine group
o Production Line
o Assembly work centres
o Employee, groups of employees
Together with the bills of materials and routings, work centres belong to the most important
master data in the R/3 production planning and control system. Work centres are used in task
list operations and work orders.
1.11 BLUEPRINT
SAP configuration settings below for work centre will be used.
Setting Values Remarks
Work centre category Machine - 0001 This is required during creation of routings to
define where operations will take place.
Standard value key SAP0 – AME No Std values This is required during the creation of work
SAP1 – AME Normal production centers. The system uses standard values as
parameters to calculate execution time, capacity
SAP2 – AME Variable production requirements and costs.
Control key PP01 - Routing/Ref. op. set - This is required during the creation of work
internal proc. centers. It specifies how an operation is
processed in functions such as orders and
costing. It determines whether an operation
should have functions like external processing
(subcontract), confirmation enablement, printing
capability, scheduling, costing relevant and/or
automatic GR.
2.5 ROUTINGS
1.12 OVERVIEW
Routings enable you to plan production of materials (products). Therefore, routings are used as a
template for production orders as well as a basis for product costing
In a routing you plan
o The operation (work steps) to be carried out during production
o The use of materials during production
o The use of work centres
1.14 BLUEPRINT
SAP configuration settings below for routings will be used.
Setting Value Remarks
Number range for Routing 50000000 - 99999999
Control key for operations PP01 - Routing/Ref. op. set
1.15 OVERVIEW
Engineering Change Number (ECN) is a component of Engineering Change Management. This is a
master record that contains information necessary for the management and control of changes. The
following benefits can be derived with the use of ECN
o Control for BOM changes
o Ability to make change to BOM in advance with the use of effectivity date so that MRP will
be able to plan purchases of new materials on exhaustion of the old material.
o Ability to have history of changes to BOM, ie able to see past BOMs and future BOMs.
ECN Description
EG050801 External number is adopted whereby:
EG denotes Egypt
050801 denotes yy/mm/dd which would be the date of change of
BOM
Description of ECN A generic naming of the ECN is recommended as the ECN
represents an effective date
e.g. “Change effective 01/08/2005”
1.17 BLUEPRINT
SAP configuration settings below for ECN will be used.
Setting Value Remarks
Number range for ECN External numbering based on
recommendation (above)
3. PRODUCTION PLANNING
1.18 OVERVIEW
The function of Demand Management is to determine requirement quantities and delivery dates for
finished goods. To create a demand program, Demand Management uses planned independent
requirement.
To create the demand program, you must define the planning strategy for a product. Planning strategy
represent the methods of production for planning and manufacturing or procuring a product.
The demand for products has been found to be not triggered or affected by sales orders. Therefore, the
planning strategy for ABC Egypt will be defined based on a make-to-stock scenario.
1.20 BLUEPRINT
The following configuration settings will be used for ABC Egypt
Setting Values Remarks
Planning Strategy 10– Make to stock production
LSF - Requirement type of
independent requirement
Maintain MRP Group Plant - EG01 MRP Group:
MRP group – 0000 0000 – External procurement
0010 – Make-to-Stock
Plant - EG90 production
MRP group – 0010
1.21 OVERVIEW
This component provides support for long-term production planning and for carrying out simulations
in short and mid-term planning.
To carry out an annual or a rolling quarterly planning run you require information on the future stock
and requirements situation. This means you need to know how sales and operations planning
influence resources.
The purchasing department can use the results of long-term planning. They use the information on
the future requirements quantities to estimate future orders. This provides them with a basis for
negotiating delivery schedules and contracts with vendors. Vendors also gain from long-term
planning as they are sent a preview of future purchase orders.
1.23 BLUEPRINT
All current standard SAP configuration settings for Demand Mangement and MRP will be used for
long-term planning.
Company plan forecast for 3 years
Planned price 1, 2 and 3 to be maintained for each of the 3 years
Generate projected material cost year to year based on the planned price.
1.24 OVERVIEW
The main function of material requirements planning is to guarantee material availability, that is, it is
used to procure or produce the requirement quantities on time both for internal purposes and for
sales and distribution. This process involves the monitoring of stocks and, in particular, the
automatic creation of procurement proposals for purchasing and production.
In doing so, MRP tries to strike the best balance possible between
o Optimising the service level and
o Minimising cost and capital lockup.
The MRP component assists and relieve the MRP controllers in their area of responsiblily. The
MRP controller is responsible for all activities related to specifying the type, quantity, and time of the
requirements, in addition to calculating when and for what quantity and order proposal has to be be
created to cover these requirements. The MRP controller needs all the information on stocks, stock
reservations, and stock on order to calculate quantities, and also needs information on lead times
and procurement time to calculate dates. The MRP controller defines a suitable MRP and lot-sizing
procedure for each material to determine procurement proposals.
1.26 BLUEPRINT
The following key configuration will be set in addition to current SAP standard settings.
Settings Values Remarks
Carry out overall Plant - EG01
maintenance of MRP group MRP group - 0000
Plant - EG90
MRP group - 0010
Define number range for
planning run Plant Start number End number
Planned orders EG01 0000000001 0099999999
Dependent requirement EG01 0000000001 0099999999
Purchase requisition EG01 1000000001 1099999999
MRP list EG01 0000000001 9999999999
Total requirement EG01 0000000001 0099999999
1.27 OVERVIEW
Production orders are a fundamental part of Production Planning and Control (PP). PP is fully
integrated in Logistics and has among others, interfaces to
o Sales and Distribution (SD)
o Materials Management (MM)
o Controlling (CO)
A production order defines which material is to be processed, at which location, at what time and
how much work is required. It also defines which resources are to be used and how the order costs
are to be settled.
Production orders are used to control production within a company and also to control cost
accounting.
1.28 BUSINESS REQUIREMENT
Example 8:
EG01-Sampling of New SKUs – Production BOM for New Sampling
Finished Goods
Sampling Mat
Shorts Cigs Blanks Alum. Foil Inner Frame Poly Display Carton Final Case
Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling Sampling
Legend:
1.29 BLUEPRINT
The following additional configuration setting will be created for production orders. The rest will be
standard SAP configuration.
Setting Values Remark
Define order type Order type
AM01 ABC Standard Production Order
Typ
EG90 ABCE (EC) Standard Production
Order Typ
Define order type dependent Plant Ordtype Description
parameter EG01 AM01 ABC Standard
Production Order Typ
EG90 EG90 ABCE (EC) Standard
Production Order Typ
Define number range for order AM01 001100000000 – 001199999999
EG90 009100000000 – 009199999999
1.30 OVERVIEW
The order information system is a tool for shop floor control with a reporting function for production
orders and planned orders.
All production orders to be found in the system, including orders with deletion flag or deletion
indicators, can be taken into account. Archived orders are not taken into account.
1.32 BLUEPRINT
This reporting tool does not require configuration.
4. BUSINESS PROCESSES
The following business processes will be implemented in ABCE and EC where applicable.
Master Data Maintenance Process
o BOM Maintenance
o Work Centre Maintenance
o Routing Maintenance
Demand Planning process
MRP Process
Process SMD Production
o Goods Issue to SMD Production – Filter rods
o Process Finished goods
o Goods receipt from SMD production – finished goods
Long Term Planning
Creation of Costing BOM
Important note :
o If a routing change has become effective on a day when a production order has already
been created, that the production order has to be final confirmed for all production
quantities that has taken place using the old routing and a new production order raised to
capture the new routing.
o Ensure that for all new BOMs, a routing MUST be created before a cost estimate is run
and released to material master.
EC(EG90):
o SMD production plan where planned orders are generated and later converted to
production orders by SMD to produce the required semi-finished and finished goods.
o Procurement proposals for wrapping materials, casing and flavouring, where purchase
requisitions are generated if the release date of the requisition falls inside the buying lead
time. Planned orders are generated if the release date is outside the buying lead time.
Purchase requisition are then converted to purchase orders to procure the raw materials
by the Procurement dept.
o Procurement proposal for cutrag where purchase requisitions are generated if the release
date of the requisition falls inside the buying lead time. Planned orders are generated if
the release date is outside the buying lead time. Purchase requisition are then converted
to purchase orders to procure the cutrag by Product Development.
Each MRP controller will be responsible for analysing their own MRP list and acting accordingly to
ensure no stock shortage situation.
Process Add-backs
An add-back process occurs at every beginning of the SMD process where-by a percentage of
shorts are added to the cutrag a the feeder. The cutrag and shorts quantities are recorded for the
purpose of production reporting input at a later stage.
4.5 LONG TERM PLANNING PROCESS
Based on the 10 years sales forecast, a production plan is created for budgetting purposes.
A scenario is created using the 10 years production plan.
This is dependent on the Validity of the Factory Calendar. Therefore in order for the users to plan
for 10 years, the Factory Calendar has to have a validity period of at least more than 10 years.
The planning scenario is then used to run long term planning.
After the long term planning run is completed, you can review and modify the result of the planning
run.
Once everything is finalised, you can run an extraction for the purchasing information system and
inventory information system to extract the data.
Reports will be run to look at your plan purchases and cost for the next 3 years using planned
prices to compute year on year material cost.
Reports will also be run to look at inventory situations.
Interfaces
MPS Upload Program