This blog gives you an understanding of demand-driven MRP and how it works in SAP S/4HANA environment.
Material requirements planning (MRP) is a well-known planning tool. Material planning is a very critical and complex process due to complex supply chain networks and it is not easy to fulfill the requirements based on classical planning all the times.
MRP is a planning tool and available in SAP ERP (ECC) and Advanced Planning Optimization (APO) interface with Core Interface (CIF). SAP material requirements planning brings efficiency and optimization to production and procurement plans. Every planner dream to accurately plan materials timely available across the logistics and entire supply chain. Planner main goal is to ensure that enough stock available for sale to customers without escalating the inventory carrying cost or facing a shortage of raw or packing materials needed for production processes.
MRP planning runs generate purchase requisition or planned order is a proposal that a planner can interactively convert to purchase order or production order for external procurement or in-house production. SAP MRP creates a planned order or purchase requisitions based on a material's net requirement quantity and its needed availability. The net requirement calculation takes into account existing warehouse stock, the quality of stock, existing or open purchase orders, or production orders to calculate the material's shortage quantity. If the system finds that there is a material shortage, it creates a planned order or purchase requisition for the shortage quantity. MRP is not restricted to quantity planning it also takes timelines into account, such as the time it takes to procure a material (known as replenishment lead time or planned delivery time), the time required to process goods receipt in the warehouse or the quality inspection times (goods receipt processing time).
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA is a business suite that is built on SAP's proprietary operational database system and in-memory computing platform called SAP HANA. SAP S/4HANA is being called SAP's biggest update to its ERP strategy and platform in over two decades that means S/4HANA is just a new transformation to an ERP system.
DDMRP available in the S/4HANA product offering consists of two editions: SAP S/4HANA On-Premise and SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). If you look at the high-level earlier ECC and APO and now S/4HANA and IBP.
Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) is an innovative multi-echelon pull methodology to plan inventories and materials. It enables a company to build more closely to actual market requirements and promotes better and quicker decisions and actions at the planning and execution level. DDMRP was introduced to the world in the book Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith.
I am mainly focused on S/4HANA 1709 on-promise version Demand-Driven Replenishment process. Demand-Driven Replenishment helps you plan and manage supply chains efficiently based on customer demand, rather than through traditional MRP procedures. You do this by strategically decoupling material flows, becoming less vulnerable to disruptions in the supply chain, and by protecting the flow through dynamically-managed buffer (stock) levels for relevant products.
DDMRP uses strategic decoupling points to drive supply order generation and management throughout a supply chain.
To implement the DDMRP process following are the two steps.
The first steps to identify the materials which are relevant for DDMRP planning (critical and long lead time) and update the MRP type D1 (planning procedure C) in material master MRP 1 view.
With this app, you can classify your products by systematically evaluating them based on their goods issue value (ABC classification), usage across BOMs (PQR classification) and variation in actual demand (XYZ classification) across a specified evaluation interval. Classifying your products will help identify whether they are relevant for Demand-Driven Replenishment, and will help define inputs for their buffer settings.
Once the application job opens click on "New" and classifies products and schedule job as below.
After job completed products classified and additional information messages also displayed.
Once the application job opens select materials and which you want to do mass change and click on "Mass change" new popo window displayed and do the changes based on requirement (this step is optional in this case).
Once the application job opens click on "New" and classifies products and schedule job as below.
After job completed products classified and additional information messages also displayed.
Schedule Buffer Proposal Calculation
Once the application job opens click on "New" and calculates buffers and schedule job as below.
After job completed products buffer calculation completed and additional information messages also displayed.
Buffer calculation
Buffer (stock) level proposals help you manage the safety stock, reorder point and maximum stock for your products through the Manage Buffer Levels app. Several factors are taken under consideration when calculating buffer proposals for your Demand-Driven Replenishment-relevant products.
SAP not provided the standard transaction code to maintain the buffer parameters. You can manage buffer profiles using the cluster table "PPH_DD_PROFILE_ASG_VC" in SM30 transaction code in S/4HANA 1709 on-premise version.
Based on Schedule Buffer Proposal Calculation job material R-100-100 Red Zone value 323 PC, Yello Zone 599 PC and Green Zone 179 PC classified.
Now looking at the R-100-100 detailed analysis.
Buffer zones
Buffer Levels
Average Daily Usage
Decouple Lead Time
Classifications
Stock requirement list (MD04)
Please refer to the following link for additional documentation.
https://www.demanddriveninstitute.com/ddmrp
https://help.sap.com/viewer/e93a1ed5d8d9422faa3acd132b27e7ba/1709%20000/en-US/4694a223d18b4f648ea0b2...
I would very much appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Best Regards,
Lingaiah
Material requirements planning (MRP) is a well-known planning tool. Material planning is a very critical and complex process due to complex supply chain networks and it is not easy to fulfill the requirements based on classical planning all the times.
MRP is a planning tool and available in SAP ERP (ECC) and Advanced Planning Optimization (APO) interface with Core Interface (CIF). SAP material requirements planning brings efficiency and optimization to production and procurement plans. Every planner dream to accurately plan materials timely available across the logistics and entire supply chain. Planner main goal is to ensure that enough stock available for sale to customers without escalating the inventory carrying cost or facing a shortage of raw or packing materials needed for production processes.
MRP planning runs generate purchase requisition or planned order is a proposal that a planner can interactively convert to purchase order or production order for external procurement or in-house production. SAP MRP creates a planned order or purchase requisitions based on a material's net requirement quantity and its needed availability. The net requirement calculation takes into account existing warehouse stock, the quality of stock, existing or open purchase orders, or production orders to calculate the material's shortage quantity. If the system finds that there is a material shortage, it creates a planned order or purchase requisition for the shortage quantity. MRP is not restricted to quantity planning it also takes timelines into account, such as the time it takes to procure a material (known as replenishment lead time or planned delivery time), the time required to process goods receipt in the warehouse or the quality inspection times (goods receipt processing time).
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA is a business suite that is built on SAP's proprietary operational database system and in-memory computing platform called SAP HANA. SAP S/4HANA is being called SAP's biggest update to its ERP strategy and platform in over two decades that means S/4HANA is just a new transformation to an ERP system.
DDMRP available in the S/4HANA product offering consists of two editions: SAP S/4HANA On-Premise and SAP S/4HANA Cloud and Integrated Business Planning (IBP). If you look at the high-level earlier ECC and APO and now S/4HANA and IBP.
Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP) is an innovative multi-echelon pull methodology to plan inventories and materials. It enables a company to build more closely to actual market requirements and promotes better and quicker decisions and actions at the planning and execution level. DDMRP was introduced to the world in the book Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith.
I am mainly focused on S/4HANA 1709 on-promise version Demand-Driven Replenishment process. Demand-Driven Replenishment helps you plan and manage supply chains efficiently based on customer demand, rather than through traditional MRP procedures. You do this by strategically decoupling material flows, becoming less vulnerable to disruptions in the supply chain, and by protecting the flow through dynamically-managed buffer (stock) levels for relevant products.
DDMRP uses strategic decoupling points to drive supply order generation and management throughout a supply chain.
- Strategic decoupling: De-coupling the supply chain creates independence between processes or entities and is the only way to stop the bullwhip effect, mitigate variability and compress lead times.
- Buffer sizing: Buffer sizing is the shock absorber to ease both supply and demand variability and reduce or eliminate the bullwhip effect.
- Dynamic adjustments: A dynamic adjustment of the buffer profiles further calms the supply chain and smooths operating for all variabilities within a set period.
- Demand-driven planning: Demand-driving planning comprises generating supply orders by evaluating actual inventory, stock that has been ordered but not received, and qualified sales order demand.
- Visible and collaborative execution: When users have visibility into inventory through alerts that track usage, ordering lead times and material delivery can be synchronized.
To implement the DDMRP process following are the two steps.
- Configuration and setup in fiori applications
- Operational fiori applications
The first steps to identify the materials which are relevant for DDMRP planning (critical and long lead time) and update the MRP type D1 (planning procedure C) in material master MRP 1 view.
Schedule Product Classification (DD):
With this app, you can classify your products by systematically evaluating them based on their goods issue value (ABC classification), usage across BOMs (PQR classification) and variation in actual demand (XYZ classification) across a specified evaluation interval. Classifying your products will help identify whether they are relevant for Demand-Driven Replenishment, and will help define inputs for their buffer settings.
Once the application job opens click on "New" and classifies products and schedule job as below.
After job completed products classified and additional information messages also displayed.
Mass Maintenance of Products (DD)
With this app, you can display and change product details (master data records) relevant to Demand-Driven Replenishment. After you have classified or re-classified your products, you can view the results of the classifications in this app, and based on the results, select products that are relevant to Demand-Driven Replenishment. You can use the mass change feature to change the master data records for several products simultaneously. This is the second app that you’ll use when you start with Demand-Driven Replenishment.
Once the application job opens select materials and which you want to do mass change and click on "Mass change" new popo window displayed and do the changes based on requirement (this step is optional in this case).
Schedule Lead Time Classification of Products (DD)
With this app, you can classify your Demand-Driven Replenishment-relevant products by evaluating them based on their Decoupled Lead Time (EFG classification) across a specified evaluation interval. Classifying your products based on their Decoupled Lead Time (DLT) will help define inputs for their buffer settings. Additionally, you can schedule runs to re-classify your products periodically to keep their classifications up-to-date, so that you get accurate results as you proceed with Demand-Driven Replenishment. This is the third app that you’ll use when you start with Demand-Driven Replenishment.
Once the application job opens click on "New" and classifies products and schedule job as below.
After job completed products classified and additional information messages also displayed.
Schedule Buffer Proposal Calculation
With this app, you can generate buffer (stock) level proposals for your Demand-Driven Replenishment-relevant products based on their average daily usage, decoupled lead time, buffer profiles and several other factors. Additionally, you can schedule runs to re-calculate the buffer proposals periodically to keep them up-to-date, so that you maintain appropriate levels of inventory while using Demand-Driven Replenishment. This is the fourth app that you’ll use when you start with Demand-Driven Replenishment.
Once the application job opens click on "New" and calculates buffers and schedule job as below.
After job completed products buffer calculation completed and additional information messages also displayed.
Buffer calculation
Buffer (stock) level proposals help you manage the safety stock, reorder point and maximum stock for your products through the Manage Buffer Levels app. Several factors are taken under consideration when calculating buffer proposals for your Demand-Driven Replenishment-relevant products.
A buffer profile is one of the several factors taken under consideration when calculating buffer proposals for Demand-Driven Replenishment-relevant products.
SAP not provided the standard transaction code to maintain the buffer parameters. You can manage buffer profiles using the cluster table "PPH_DD_PROFILE_ASG_VC" in SM30 transaction code in S/4HANA 1709 on-premise version.
Manage Buffer Levels
With this app, you can ensure products are available when needed by managing the safety stock, reorder point and maximum stock through buffer proposals for optimized Demand-Driven Replenishment.
Based on Schedule Buffer Proposal Calculation job material R-100-100 Red Zone value 323 PC, Yello Zone 599 PC and Green Zone 179 PC classified.
Now looking at the R-100-100 detailed analysis.
Buffer zones
Buffer Levels
Average Daily Usage
Decouple Lead Time
Classifications
Stock requirement list (MD04)
Replenishment Planning by Planning Priority
With this app you have an overview of the buffer information sorted by the planning priority. Using this information, you can trigger replenishment on time to avoid stock shortages and possible delays in the completion of production or sales orders as a result of insufficient stock.
Replenishment Execution by On-Hand Status
With this app you can view today's stock situation for each product and check that sufficient on-hand stock is available for production. Using this information, the planner can try to speed up replenishment by contacting the supplier of a purchase order or the production supervisor of the component production order, for example.
Please refer to the following link for additional documentation.
https://www.demanddriveninstitute.com/ddmrp
https://help.sap.com/viewer/e93a1ed5d8d9422faa3acd132b27e7ba/1709%20000/en-US/4694a223d18b4f648ea0b2...
I would very much appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Best Regards,
Lingaiah
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