Individual/coll. Incicator.

[avinash_sharma]

Hi All,

I am aware of what Individual/coll. indicator is but only in theoretical terms. So in order to understand it, I created some dummy data and I am stuck with the results. So need your expertise on this :

So there are 3 materials A, B and X. X is the Component in A's and B's BOM's.

Is this necessary that all the three materials should be having Planning strategy as '20' in MRP3 view? Or having '20' only for  A and B will do the job.

I have created two sales orders for the Materials with same requirement date. In SOs I have put 'KE' as requirement type.

After running MRP the planned orders were created for A and B but when I looked into MD04 for X, I found that the Dep. Req. was maintained separately for the two Planned Orders.(As I thought the Dep Req. will be triggered collectively--->Ignoring the fact that there are two different Planned Orders).

So yes I am a bit hazy on the results that I should expect after all this. So please guide me on what exactly should I expect after putting Ind/ Coll Indicator in MTO scenario, And where I can expect to see the changes.

And one more question, for which material should I set the indicator, for A and B or only for X.

Please let me know if any further info is required.

Regards,

Avinash

[former_member183783 · Accepted solution]

Hi

    Maintain strategy 20 for A&B. Regarding X,you can leave it empty .

    In your case,you expect X to be collctively displayed,maintain collectve indicator in X.then u will see what you expect...

    btw,how many planned order against X generated is not the way to distinguish indivial/collective .if you see a planned order linking with a sales order ,then it is individual...I　mean separate line in for different planned order in MD04..

[avinash_sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi Monst,

Thank  you for the reply, but what exactly is meant by that statement that you wrote :

And please confirm what should I expect in scenario that I mentioned in the first post ?

[former_member183783 · Accepted solution]

Hi,my first hight light rectangle is generated by collective.consume stock.not seperated by order.

     second/third rectangle are generated by indivial .not consume stock.seperated by sales order.

[avinash_sharma · Accepted solution]

Hi Monst,

Let me show what I have done:

Below is the planned order generated for material A.

Planned order for material B:

Dependent requirement generated for X:

Could you please be able to tell me now what should I expect for X in MD04. Because even if I change the Collective indicator to Individual indicator, I am not able to find out any changes in MD04 for X.

Please let me know if I am missing any thing.

[avinash_sharma]

Thank You very much to all. I am fine with the concept now....:-)

[avinash_sharma]

Hi All,

For my Component material 'X' this is the MD04 that I have got.

The red boxed requirement shows for Material 'A' and the other one is for material 'B'. A and B both are under MTO and for component X we have Collective indicator. But still I am not able to see any collective requirement generated for X(BTW I don't exactly know what to expect over here). And even if I change the indicator to Individual it still remains the same.

Please help me on this !!

[Former Member]

Hi Avinash,

Are you looking for options to get the collective requirement for this item 'X'?

If yes, together with the Ind/Collective indicator '2',... Please maintain the relevant lot size key to allow this action,... like Daily(TB) / Weekly(WB) / Monthly(MB), etx., and not 'EX'.

Regards,

Senthil

[sjeevan]

Checkout your lot size like Senthil mentioned, you need to choose a lot size which groups the requirements.  

To check if it is individual requirement, go to the PR (ME53N), double click on item number then in the lower pane (below) click on Account Assignment tab, there check out if you see sales order number.

If you don't see sales order number then it means it's your lot sizing problem not coll./ind. requirement indicator problem.

[Former Member]

Hi Avinash,

In your scenario, maintain planning strategy only for the finished goods.

Assuming that materials A & B are two different finished goods, planning strategy 20 to be maintained in their master data only.

Assuming material X as component, (may be produced in house also) maintain individual/collective indicator in its master data only.  Individual /collective indicator is maintained only for components and mostly in MTO scenarios. (In MTS also you can use them if situation demands)

As you are mentioning, you got two different dependant requirements for material X after running MRP for FGs, this behavior is perfect as SAP system by default plan all materials individually unless you mentions planing of components must take place collectively.

Also as you are using planning strategy 20, the basic characteristics of this planning strategy is components (and assemblies if any) are produced or procured specifically for the sales order and stock is managed separately for this sales order.So system will create separate dependant requirements unless you mention collective planning for the components.

I hope this will clear your doubt.

Pavan

[avinash_sharma]

Hi Pavan,

thanks for your response. I understood the difference but theoretically. But not able to see the difference in System.

This is MD04 screen for component material 'X'

And I have used Collective indicator for it. Now could you please tell me what should I expect here ? And will you call the above screen under Collective requirement ?

Because even if I change the indicator to Individual, then also the same screen appears.

Regards,

Avinash

[Former Member]

Hi Avinash,

Use the collective indicator for "X" and in addition use the periodic lot size for "X". This will group the requirement for X under one proposal.

Please check this and revert.

Regards,

Joseph Charles Vaikathussery