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Monday, March 17, 2008

SAP What is # 9 - What is Strategy "30" ?

In "SAP What is # 9", the Strategy 30 will be illustrated.

You can find the "MRP Strategies" parameter by navigating in the Customizing as follows:
Use IMG path -> Production -> Production Planning -> Demand Management -> Planned Independent Requirement -> Planning Strategy -> Define Strategy


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No other settings required other then assignment of the strategy 30 to the MRP 3 views, the forward and backward consumption numbers are still required as consumption will take place.


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Periodic lot-sizing rule is recommended as the purpose is the fulfill all requirements in one single order (you shall see this shortly in the following slide).


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Here, in the stock requirement list below, you can see 3 groups of requirements (both planned independent requirement and customer requirements) into 3 weeks:

Week 1 (Mar 08-14) 10+30+50 = 80 for the week
Week 2 (Mar 15-21) 10+250+600 = 860 for the week
Week 3 (Mar 22-28) 10
Week 4 (Mar 29- ) 10

Important: the Planned independent requirements are not consumed by the Sales Orders.

3 planned orders are created for each week fulfilling all the requirements that falls on the same week.

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A production order is created for the first planned order of 90.


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Production Order completed and now received into stocks below in the S/R list:


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A cash sales is created to consume the stocks in warehouse of 5 pieces.

The cash sales of 5 pieces consumed the Planned Independent requirement as below:

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CONCLUSION: The Strategy 30 accepts all requirements (both Customer requirement and Planned independent requirement without any consumptions). The total requirements of both shall be considered.

APPLICATION: In this case, usually periodic lot-sizing rule is used to collect all requirement into a single supply order. Useful application when there are big customers and walk-in customers where both demands have to be considered separately.

CAUTION: None.
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