MRP for Plant to Plant Transfer

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

I have a scenario as below.

Plant 1000 is the supplying plant while all plants will retrieve Material M001 from Plant 1000.

Plant 1100 is a receiving plant for Material M001.

Both Plant has a re-order point set and M001 is a newly created material with zero stock.

Both Plant has used a MRP Type which has all checkboxes checked as the external requirement.

After MRP Run, I've noticed that a Planned Order for Stock Transfer is created from Plant 1100 to Plant 1000 with quantity equals to the re-order point of Plant 1100, which is expected. Howevere, on the other side, Plant 1000 can view the Transfer Request from Plant 1100, but the Planned Order generated involve only the quantity request from Plant 1000, but not Plant 1100. I have further tried to convert the transfer order to a PO to Plant 1000, but the MRP just not trigger Plant 1000 to do extra procurement until Good Issue by Plant 1100 take place.

Can the behavior be configured such that when a Transfer Planned Order is generated from Plant 1100, the requested quantity will be treated as an external requirement in Plant 1000 and procurement will occur if stock quantity is not enough?

Thanks,

Steven

[Former Member]

Can anyone help?

[ajitkumar]

for the supplying plant ( 1000 ) use MRP type PD. also instead of re order point in 1000, use safety stock

[Former Member]

Hi, Steven,

     Try to check following two places, and run MRP for plant 1000 again:

     1. For the MRP type used for your material in plant 1000, try to set the Include ext. reqmts indicator to 1, so that all stock transfer requirements could be included in planning, regardless of the requirement time. Or you can check the requirement time of the stock transfer in plant 1000, make sure they fall in the delivery lead time

     2. Run MD21 to see whether the material is marked for planning in plant 1000. It seems that generating a stock transfer requirement will not mark the material for planning in supplying plant automatically. If not marked, use MD20 to do so. Or you can just run MRP with NEUPL.

     Hope it helps. As far as I know, stock transfer requirement can definitely be included in planning and procurement proposal in reorder point planning, for the supplying plant.

Regards

[Former Member]

Dear CW,

Thanks for the information, it's especially helpful to know that the behavior should be able to be configured in SAP. However, I have done the two checkings and still not work. Below are some screenshots for my configurations:

MRP Type for both Plant 1000 and Plant 1100

Special Procurement Key for Plant 1100

Master Data for Plant 1000 (MPR1)

Master Data for Plant 1000 (MRP2)

Master Data for Plant 1100 (MRP1)

Master Data for Plant 1100 (MRP2)

MD04 for Plant 1000 after MRP Run. I expect a total of 33 in the Planned Order, but only 11 in return.

MD04 for Plant 1100

Thanks,

Steven