MRP Process Execution

Hi,
Please guide me about the following query please:
Does MRP Process consideres the Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders in which items (Material Codes) are marked as deleted?
If yes, then please guide me how can i exclude these PRs and POs from the scope of MRP execution for the Materials got used in the PRs and POs.
Thanks and Regards

Hi,
Thanks for your reply please.
But my question is that the Materials are not deleted but their reference in the PRs and POs are deleted i.e. the PR line or PO line in PRs and POs are deleted but still is it possible that MRP considers these Material lines of PRs and POs?
Please guide.
Thanks and Regards

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OS:Windows server 03
DB:11g
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[email protected]
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A few questions I had:
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Vlad,
1) Since we do not care to valuate or inventory the finished good, I assume that we need to represent the finished good as a phantom material with the BOM components being the raw materials?
Don't know where you got that idea. I wouldn't do that, but I don't know all the particulars. If you intend to sell finished goods, you probably will want to put them in a plant as stock. If you intend to build finished goods, you probably shouldn't use a phantom.
3) I assume that after SAP marries the historical and future forecast data, there is the ability to view the consolidated forecast and make adjustments...what transaction is used for this?
Big assumption. There are several ways to approach forecasting within SAP ECC. These functionalities are not a 'transaction'. I suggest you look at standard online help to get a feel of what is and is not possible. Below is a bit of info about forecasting within SOP. SOP is one of the planning methods with the greatest feature sets. If SOP doesn't have enough functionality for you, then you probably need APO. There are also simpler methods of forecasting in SAP.
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4) We have three plants and so far each plant has been carrying out its MRP planning (outside of SAP) on its own. However, there are many raw materials and finished goods that are common to the plants (i.e. same SAP material numbers) and, if not already, could be sourced from the same vendor for better pricing. On occasion, when there is a shortage in one plant we do a plant-to-plant transfer.
a) I assume there is the capability to run MRP using the summarized forecast of all three plants? I'd group the plants under an MRP area, correct?
another big assumption. MRP, unlike forecasting, is generally done at the plant level. There are ways to manage MRP so as to consolidate your demand into a single plant, but ultimately the purchased materials will have to be sent to the place where they are needed. If you have 5 places where your RM is needed, you will either cut 5 POs, or one PO and then ship the parts internally to the point of use.
b) Can some raw materials be planned at the plant level while other materials at the global level?
Generally MRP planning parameters are set at the plant level. There are, however, ways to manage your requirement.
c) Or if MRP takes place at the plant level, is there any functionality for our global procurement team to see a more summarized global view of the material requirements?
Yes
In closing, expert Mario Adler has given you some sound advice. What you are describing is a project. Some companies take months or years to implement a solution similar to the one you are describing. If you want to get the best bang for your buck, engage a consulting company who has done this before. You will end up richer in the end.
Best Regards,
DB49

MRP Process flow

Gurus
Is there anyone who has MRP process flow diagram . Pl send me the diagram or links to my email ID
Thanks in advance.

The system checks in the planning file whether a planning file entry exists for the material in the MRP area that is to be planned.
The system calculates net requirements for the material in the MRP area. During this calculation, the system checks whether the requirements that exist for the MRP area can be covered by the available stock in the MRP area and the planned receipts for the MRP area. If there is a shortage of stock, the system creates a procurement proposal for the MRP area.
The system calculates procurement quantities. If you have defined a lot-sizing procedure in the MRP area segment of the material master, the system calculates using this lot-sizing procedure.
The system carries out scheduling using the parameters defined in the MRP data of the material master.
The system determines the type of procurement proposal for the MRP area on the basis of the procurement type that is defined in the material master (see also Determining the Procurement Proposal). You can also have Delivery Schedules created for the MRP area of a material.
If you have defined a different special procurement type in the MRP area segment, the system creates the corresponding procurement proposal, for example, stock transport requisitions for the special procurement Stock transfer from plant to plant.
With the special procurement keys, which are entered into the MRP area segment, the material requirements planning for the MRP area only takes into account the settings for special procurement types that do not refer to the BOM explosion.
The settings for stock transfer are taken into consideration, for example, in contrast to the special procurement key Phantom assembly, which refers to the BOM explosion.
For every procurement proposal for an assembly, the system explodes the BOM and determines the dependent requirements.

Whether OPM Process Execution module supports Continous Manufacturing

HI all,
can any one tell me whether OPM process execution will support Continous Manufacturing ( like fertiliser, Oil & gas, petrochemicals) industries.
My doubt rise because in process execution we are using Production batches concept( in which material is allocated to the batch). so this is batch process.
then how to go with coninous process?
similarly, one more doubt is there.
im developing a new product in laboratory. am i able to produce or manufacture that product ( for my development purpose) for lab purpose. This industrially termed as Pilot plant trial?
pls help in resolving these issues?

Hi Karuna
1. Yes it can be implemented but in batch mode. You will have to break the continous process into batch and then enter the data. This is a kind of workaround but acceptable. I have implemented this in Agro pharma company and they are able to work with this.
2. Yes it can handle lab trails with experimental items and even costing. Please review the oracle site for a data sheet and visit the OPM Self-Study toolkit page on metalink for more
Regards
Girish

Is there any way to stop a process execution (all instances)

Hello,
I´d like to know if there is any way to stop a specific process for execution at the engine without need to undeploy it, since we don´t want to loose process instances when we need to start this process for execution latter on.
We have a PRD environment with a lot of processes from different departments (developed by different teams and external suppliers) and a feature for stop a specific process and isolate the environment could be very good to do root cause analysis when issues occurs at the environment.
Sometimes stop a specific process (or some of them) could help in issues investigation that causes the engine to malfunction (lot of audit enabled, some loop bad controlled, lot of concurrent access) but I could not see this option at the webconsole.
In the version 5.7 one EAR was created separatedly for each process deployed and this could be done stopping the EAR created for that process. Anyone know how to do this at version 6?
Thanks

Well the bad news is you are right, there really isn't any way to do this in versions after 5.7
Starting at 6.0 all projects are deployed under the 'engine ear'. So if you stop the engine, you stop all projects deployed.
I'm a little concerned that you are first seeing these issues in a 'PRD' environment, is this something that you could set up in a DEV, or UAT, or SIT, or any other environment (That is built similarly) to recreate the issues? - Then undeploy any of the other projects... and isolate the problem...
-Kevin

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