Hi everyone,
I'm fairly new to SAP so some of this may be obvious - but I'd appreciate any input.
At our plant we use MRP to plan our raw material purchases. Currently we have make to stock (our "supermarket" items, that we hold inventory of) and make to order products. We have a long change-over wheel that takes us a few weeks to get through our products. We plan our production schedule months in advance and upload the requirements into SAP as PIR-VSE requirements which then trigger raw material purchasing. For the most part this works well, however we have run into a few issues...
With the way our MRP is set up currently, SAP generates purchase reqs for both our uploaded PIR forecast as well as any sales orders placed on us. This is causing us to order excess raw material inventory. For our make-to-stock products, we want MRP to only consider our uploaded PIR forecast and ignore sales orders. Our forecast already takes into account sales orders placed on us. So my first question is, how could this be accomplished?
For make to order products, we want MRP to consider sales orders and generate raw material requirements from them as we do not upload a forecast.
Our finished products are set up as:
MRP Type: PD
Strategy: 52
My thought was to change the MRP type to forecast only ('VV'), but I'm unsure if that will cause any other problems.
Thanks for your help.
-Devin
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