KANBAN External Supplier with MRP

We have a requirement to use KANBAN for external vendors and also do forecasting for same materials using MRP.
Does standard SAP support this?
We are using replenishment strategy 02 ( with SA's ) but it is not working.
Any ideas ??

Hi Prashanth,
It makes no sense to have both KANBAN and MRP for he same material in a plant. KANBAN is an alternative method to material requirements planning! That's why also SAP will not allow that.
The only exception is when the material is in-house manufactured, and you want to pass dependent requirements to it's sons in the BOM via MRP planning and explosion of BOM.
If you only need to pass to your supplier some info on future requirements, but still work operatively via KANBAN, you can try using LTP MRP for that (if planning is demand based), or just material forecast (without MRP) if planning is consumption based.
Regards,
Mario

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