LongTerm Planning-Demand Creation,MRP Execution

Hi,
Can anyone explain me what is meant by Longterm planning. What are the Tcodes used for using LongTerm Planning.
How can we say that a given material is planned by Longterm Planning?.
How to create demand in Longterm planning and then execute MRP in Longterm planning?.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
LTP - Long Term Planning is one of the planning tool provided by SAP for the planning puropses. It has got multiple usgaes, for production planning, procurement planning or for budget control etc. Why it is used depends mainly on what kind of business one is doing, what kind of products a company is producing. Mainly we do LTP for MTS scenarios. In MTO scenarios also we can use LTP.
As the name says it is used for the planning purpose only and we can do multiple plannings by using inactive planning versions available or by creationg them. Analyse the result of the planning in inactive version and subsequntly convert or transfer inactive plan to active demand plan and execute the processes in a normal way.
Main object in LTP is the creation of planning scenarios, which contains details reagrding validity dates of scenario, which all objects need to be considered for planning (viz, production orders, sales orders, PO, PR, planned orders , stocks, capacity, BOM explosion etc check t code MS31/MS32/MS33 etc), the plants where LTP is going to be used, what is the inactive version is going to be used etc. The creation of scenario helps in simulaitong the planning results.
Demand for LTP will be created in a normal way as we do it in DM. You can also use SOP to transfer data to LTP.
You use planning scenarios created earlier whenever you run LTP. The result of LTP are inactive plans and nonconvertibles. You can use MRP result only for the analysis purpose. You do this analysis lutliple times by using different planning scenarios for the same bunch of materials. When you feel one of the scenario/simulation is giving proper results then you can convert that inactive planning to active plan and proceed ahead with normal execution cycle.
Hope this will help.
Regards,
Pavan

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