Long-term planning: planning details of work center capacity

Question

Hi,
we need to know what is the effect on planned production orders (generated by MPS, transaction MD40) of the flag <b>&#8220;long-term planning&#8221;</b> in planning details of work center capacity (table name: RC68K; field name: KAPLPL). We made a test  analyzing planned orders scheduling details in <i>Stock requirements list</i> (MD04) and in the <i>Planning table</i> (CM21) in both cases: with "long-term planning" flag set and without this flag for the same work center.
The schedule of planned production order on that work center is the same in the two instance.
Could you suggest us something?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi Rudy,
Purpose for carrying out Long Term Planning to simulate impact of Future Demand Program on
u2022 Material Requirements
u2022 Capacity Requirements
u2022 Material Cost budgeting (activity by Accounts dept.)
T.Codes used -
u2022 Demand      MD61, MD62, MD63
u2022 Scenario Creation     MS31, MS32, MS33
u2022 LTP Variant  Creation & Execution     MSBT, SM37
u2022 LTP statistics Evaluation     SM37, MS04
u2022 Data Set Up     MS70, MSB&
u2022 Evaluation based on Set up data     MCB), MCEA, MCEB, MCEC
u2022 Capacity Evaluation     CM38
To Summarize -
u2022 In long-term planning, production plans for future demand programs are simulated using MRP runs with reference to the planning scenarios.
u2022 The parameters for the simulation in the simulation planning area are defined in the scenario.
u2022 The Evaluation of LTP Statistics enables identification of Material for which LTP processing was terminated.
u2022 The Data set for purchasing & Inventory Control enables reports for demand analysis
u2022 LTP run with setting for u201CLead time scheduling and capacity planningu201D enables simulation of capacity situation/overload on work centers.
Hope it is helpful to you.
Srini