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Define MRP types to assign and set parameters for them.

Use

You use the MRP type to control which procedure is to be used to plan a material and which MRP
parameters can be entered when maintaining a material master record. You enter the MRP type in the
material master record.

The following parameters of the MRP type are relevant for the planning run:

• MRP Procedure

The MRP procedure determines which of the following MRP types is to be used:

o Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

o Master Production Scheduling (MPS)

o Consumption-Based Planning (Reorder Point)

o Demand-Driven Replenishment (DD)

• Firming Type

The firming type determines how order proposals are firmed and scheduled if you work with a
planning time fence in the planning run. The following firming types exist:
Firming
Description
Type

Order proposals are not firmed automatically. With this firming type, no actual firming
takes place. The materials only receive the indicator for MPS so that they can be
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planned using the special planning run for master production scheduling. This firming
type only makes sense in combination with the MRP procedure MPS.

Order proposals are not firmed automatically. With this firming type, no actual firming
takes place. The materials only receive the indicator for MPS so that they can be
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planned using the special planning run for master production scheduling. This firming
type only makes sense in combination with the MRP procedure MPS.

2 An order proposal that lies within the planning time fence is automatically firmed as
soon as its date lies at least one day before the end of the planning time fence. The

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system does not create any new order proposals within the planning time fence. The
shortage situation is not adjusted within the planning time fence.

Order proposals that lie within the planning time fence are not firmed automatically. The
3 order proposals required to cover the requirements are moved to the end of the
planning time fence.

Within the planning time fence, the system creates no order proposals automatically.
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The shortage situation is not adjusted within the planning time fence.

• Planning Time Fence

Using the planning time fence, you can exclude a certain period from the automatic planning run. In
this period, only manual changes are made, depending on the firming type. The system will not
create any order proposals within this period.
For more information about the planning time fence, see the Master Production Scheduling
Customizing activities.

• Roll Forward

If you want to adjust the master plan to suit a changed requirements situation, you can do this by
maintaining the indicator for deleting out-of-date planned orders.
This indicator instructs the system to delete firmed order proposals that lie before the roll forward
period during the planning run and to create new, correctly scheduled planned orders (or
depending on the firming type they will be moved to the end of the planning time fence).

You define the roll forward period in the work step entitled, "Define planning time fence".

For more information, see the Define Planning Time Fence and Roll Forward Period
Customizing activity.

• External Requirements

This indicator is only relevant for reorder point planning. You use it to instruct the system to include
customer requirements and manual reservations in the MRP calculation for materials that are
planned by reorder point. If a material is planned with this type of reorder point planning, an entry is
created in the planning file when creating or changing a sales order or manual reservation.
If you want to include requirements in the MRP calculation in addition to the customer requirements
and manual reservations, select the following fields:

o Requirements for materials to be provided in subcontracting

o Dependent order reservations on the basis of production orders

o Dependent order reservations on the basis of maintenance orders or networks

o Release orders
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o Purchase requisition releases

o Forecast delivery schedules

Note:
The Incl. external reqmts indicator is only displayed if you select MRP procedure Reorder Point
Planning.

• Plan Regularly

This indicator specifies that materials with this MRP type are to be planned in regular intervals even
if the material has not undergone a change relevant to planning.
For materials that are to be planned regularly, you have also have to maintain the period in which
the material is to be planned (at the latest). You do this using the MRP group.

For more information, see the Define the Maximum MRP Period Customizing activity.

• Forecast Indicator

You use this indicator to determine whether or not the forecast is to be carried out.

• Forecast Consumption Indicator

You use this indicator to determine which consumption values are to be used in the material
forecast.

• MRP Indicator in Forecast

You use this indicator to specify which requirements values the system considers in the planning
run.

• Calculate Safety Stock Automatically

You use this indicator to determine whether the safety stock is to be calculated automatically. The
safety stock can be calculated automatically for materials planned with one of the consumption-
based planning procedures if the service level has been maintained in the material master record, if
historical data exists and if the forecast has been carried out for the material.

• Calculate Reorder Point Automatically

You use this indicator to determine whether the reorder point is to be calculated automatically. The
reorder point is calculated for materials planned in this way if automatic reorder point planning has
been selected, if historical data exists, and if the forecast has been carried out for the material.

• Stock/Requirements List - Extended Header

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The Screen Sequence field controls which screens are displayed in the extended header and the
order in which they are displayed.
For more information, see the Define Screen Sequence for Header Details Customizing activity.

Default settings

In the standard system, the following MRP types are determined, for example;

• ND => No MRP

• PD => MRP

• VB => Manual reorder point planning

• VM => Automatic reorder point planning

• V1 => Manually reorder point planning including external requirements

• V2 => Automatic reorder point planning including external requirements

• VV => Forecast-based planning

• D1 => Demand-driven replenishment

Actions

1. If necessary, change the parameters set in the standard system.

2. Add new MRP types to suit your own requirements.

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MRP Type

Key that determines whether and how the material is planned. You have the following options:

• Manual reorder point planning

• Automatic reorder point planning

• Forecast-based planning

• Material requirements planning with forecasts for unplanned consumption

• Master production scheduling (MPS)

• Demand-driven replenishment

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