MRP with stocks in other plant

Hi,
Scenario: 5 stocking Plants + 1 Manufacturing plant under a company code.
For a finished product, all 6 Plants have stock.
For MRP, the demand of the finsihed product from all 6 plants is combined and fed as PIR feeding at manufacturing plant.
Question: How to make SAP to consider stock of all plants and generate the planned order for the difference Qty?
E.g. PIR at Mfg plant = 100 Nos.
Stocks at 5 Stocking plants = 50 nos
Stocks at 1 Mfg plant = 10 nos
Hence on MRP run, system to generate planned order for 100 - (50+10) = 40 Nos at mfg Plant.
Thanks

Hi Nitin,
SAP's planning is based on lean-manufacturing practices - i.e. you will never have stocks in excess of requirements (plus safety stock). So, in reality, you will not need to "adjust" your production for stocks lying at stocking plants (stocks at stocking plants would be just equal to safety stock logic defined at each plant).
Now say some demand at any of the stocking plants got cancelled, and you end up with excess stocks at that moment. So in next MRP-run, system will delete some future STOs. Or, if there is nothing to delete, then MRP-list will show exception message # 25, and you can decide how to move that excess stocks.
So, in conclusion, adjustment of production, based on stocks at all 6 plants, will NOT be needed. Just produce as per MRP proposals, and be on the lookout for exception message # 25. (Hope you are using special procurement key for demand transfer from stocking plant to production plant).
- Chetan

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First of all I admit that my suggestion would not be as 100% per your requirement.
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My Business is having many plants with different business
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Dear Demetrio
Please note that the logic for subcontracting was changed as of release
4.0A.
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1. Question
Why does the MD04/MD05 display an own segment for subcontracting as of Release 4.0B and how does the materials planning work with this new logic?
Answer
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Why does the third-party order processing for subcontracting work differently as of Release 4.0B?
Answer
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Requirements of material provided (subcontracting requirements, material staging requirements) never reach a storage location MRP area, because later you cannot post the withdrawal from this MRP area.
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Aren't your questions answered in SAP online help?
Integration
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Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jun 12, 2009 11:46 PM
Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jun 12, 2009 11:48 PM
Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jun 12, 2009 11:48 PM

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