Can mrp run consider material availability for more then one plant?

Question

Hı PP Gurus,
My Case:
Material "A" is maintained for plant "X" and "Y" for example. When i execute mrp for material A i have to specify a plant. And the system creates planned orders just considering the quantity in that plant. But i want mrp to see the quantities of both plant.
I mean when i execute mrp the system must consider the quantities for both plant and create planned order or not.
Is there a way to fix it?
Thank you indeed.
Evren Temiz

Answer 1

You can use Scope of Planning for this.
Total planning covers the planning of all the materials that are relevant for requirements planning and includes the BOM explosion for materials with a bill of material.
You can use total planning for a single plant or you can use the scope of planning to control whether the total planning run is executed on a multi-plant level
If you have activated MRP with MRP areas, you can also combine MRP areas in the scope of planning as an alternative to plants.
With the help of the scope of planning, you can control whether the total planning run is to be carried out:
1. For one plant (as previously without scope of planning)
2. For several plants
3. For an MRP area
4. For several MRP areas
You define the scope of planning for the total planning run in Customizing for MRP, in the IMG activity Scope of planning for total planning run .
You can carry out total planning for a scope of planning online or as a background job. The planning run must always be started with parallel processing.
You can use the scope of planning for total planning in Material Requirements Planning, Master Production Scheduling and Long-Term Planning.
Please refer to the below links -
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/35/b0e95c87a62488e10000009b38f9b7/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/d7/5c9366f47811d1a6ba0000e83235d4/frameset.htm
Hope this helps you.