Project material requirements to consider plant stock first

In some ERP systems, we have project specific BOMs and when the requirements are exploded and netted, the system first tries to see if the demand can be met from plant stock. If full or partial demand can be met from the plant stock, the system recommends a stock transfer order from general (plant) inventory to the project.
Any unmet requirement generates a project specific 'mrp-planned' order (purchase or production recommendation). This way, the planners and financial can see what existing plant stock can be used for a project and they can use this info for financial planning. Once the planner determines that the existing plant stock is usable for the project, he/she can confirm and 'execute' the transfer order which prings the plant stock to the project stock. For engineering or technical reasons (single lot date code requirements) the planner can choose not to accept the stock transfer recommendation (either fully or partially) and manually create purchase recommendation to cover the quantity.
I have read some posts here but it is not clear that IN SAP PS if the collective indicator is set (or not set), would one be able to see, either directly or indirectly, what plant stock is recommended to be transferred as project stock?
Can the behavior of described ERP system be modeled?
Thanks, experts.

Hi,
Please also try the following settings in Material Master to consider the item from plant stock ..
View : MRP1
MRP Type : PD
Lot Size : MB
View : MRP 2
Procurement Type : F
View : MRP 3
Strategy Group : 70
Mixed MRP : 3
Availability Check : 01
View : MRP 4
Individual/coll. : 2
Thanks
Abdul

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Project material from Unrestricted plant stock.

Hi ,
While running MRP thru MD51 system creates Planned order or Purchse requisition for the materials which are already available as unrestricted stock in stores.As per my view system shuld not create PR or Planned order for stocked material.How to avoid this ?
Rgds

Hi,
Basically SAP looks at project stock differently. since it assumes that the same material code stock differs in characteristics when it comes to project. That is even though our required material is in stock it may not be suitable to our project (project requirements are highly specific) Hence it does not consider this stock. You need to run the reservation report for the project and write a BDC to transfer all the material available in the stock (if all materials are transferable). next run the MRP. These materials transfered will be blocked against the reservation based on the availability check settings.

Mrp considering other plant stock also

hi gurujis,
        I want to run mrp for some finished products, while running mrp, it has to consider the stocks in other plants also. is there any settings for that?
     all valuable replies will be rewarded.
thank you
regards,
senthil

Hi Senthil,
First of all I admit that my suggestion would not be as 100% per your requirement.
It means, if you want to use the scope of planning, it must be at plant(s) level for all the materials which are relevant. ( only for some finished products it is not possible).
I appreciate Mr. Murugesan's comments..
Now let's come to the point.
If you want to do planning for Multiple Plants then proceed as follows:
1. T. Code : OM0E
2. Planning Scope : Put 4 digit (Alphabets/numeric) & Description
3. Double click on Sequence of plants (Left Side)
4. Put your Plants as per sequence (As per priority wise)
   i.e System will plan for Plants in this sequence only.
5. Use this Scope of planning in MD01 or MDBT as required.
Planning file entries created via stock transfer are automatically taken into account in the planning run.
This ensures that a material is also correctly planned in all plants affected even in the case of
stock transfer processing.
Best Regards,
Siva
Edited by: Siva Kumar M on Apr 2, 2008 4:37 PM

Material requirment from Projects

Hi,
I have one scenario where the material requirments will come from projects as materials (BOM) are assigned to project builder. After MRP run if there is material components available in free stock, it is n't getting adjusted against material requirments, rather creating new PR for the items. Request you to suggest on this.
Thanks & Regards,
Ranjan

Dear Biplap,
Any material required for a project and is assigned to a project is generally a special stock, "Q' type. Basically SAP handles material required for project seperately, Sale order separtely, consignment seperately, vendor seperatly etc.
So when u run MRP for the first time related to that project, generally no material will be avl <b>under that project segment</b> and create Planned order / PR as the case may be eventhough there is unrestricted normal stock for that material. SAP MRP will only consider the materials or docs for netting only if it is related to that particular project/sale order.
If you want to consider the unrestricted stock also then possibly u will have to write a Z program which will convert the normal unrestricted stock into project stock and again rerun MRP on that material to cancell the requirement generated thro the initial MRP run.
reg
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Plant stock to be consider in MRP MD51

Hi all,
My client want while running MRP for project MD51 that time plant stock and other project stock should be consider. MRP should not generated requirement for material available in Plant stock and other project stock i.e. special stock category Q.
With Regards,
Ashish

Dear ,
In SAP Stanrdar while running MRP on projects -MD51 , it does not consider unrestricted use stock .
If you want to consider planr stock or speciall stock except project stock , you have to transfer the stock to the WBS ( MB1B-412Q) so that it will consider it as a project stock during MRP and will not genrate any requirement.
You can try with Cross Project Indicator as 1-All the segments on stock in various wbs and keep availablity check key accrodingly (01) in MRP3 view .
Regards
JH
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Oct 26, 2010 9:21 AM
Edited by: Jiaul Haque on Oct 26, 2010 9:24 AM

Materials for Single wbs Element from project/Plant stock

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I would like to have the following scenarios for the single Project.
1) Some Activities in the single WBS Element will be using the Materials for specific to the Project. So MRP will be generated for the Project and PR,PO,Goods receipt will be done.
2) In the same WBS Element of some activity, wants to consume materials from the Plant stock. For this we donu2019t want to run MRP. From the reservation no, we want to take the materials for project use.
I have a single Network profile and I donu2019t want to create anymore.
Understand from movement type 411, we can take the materials from unrestricted Plant stock to project. Is there any other way/any config I need to check in account assignment category to fulfill the requirement to consume from Plant stock and also to use Project stock in a single profile.
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N.Raju

Hi,
that is the only option, Std. SAP does not support for unrestricted plant stock ( for Project MRP or availability check).
same option-
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2) Run MRP
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Net requirement calculation considering stock ( Strategy 52 )

Hi All,
we are using the planning strategy 52 for process industry and according to the standard functionality the stock of finished product will NOT be considered when MRP run and consumption.
For various reason like customer return we might have the stock of FG. when forecast is finalized and PIR is build in demand management MRP will generate the planned order (type VP) based on the consumption logic. but if stock exist system will not consider it and continue to generate the dependent requirements for the raw material. this is really not acceptable by my client. we want the MRP run considering the stock of FG whensystem generates planned order for PIR.
Is there any other way to fix this issue?
we try to use user exit and set consumption indicator 4 for requirement type of VSE.but we failed. the answer is PIR ONLY consumes the requirement elements. Stock somehow a receipt element.
any pointer is highly appreciateed.
Reagrds,
Mao Ye
Edited by: Mao Ye on Apr 7, 2008 5:38 PM
Edited by: Mao Ye on Apr 7, 2008 5:41 PM
Edited by: Mao Ye on Apr 7, 2008 5:43 PM

Dear,
Stg 52, will create planned order equivant to the PIR created. and when sales order is created, the planned order is created.
Hence the wayout is use stg 40. this will suit your requirement, create PIR and run MRP. Planned order is created.
Do not convert the planned order to production order and give this autjorization to one who can take decision in shopfloor and coordinate.
You can also use stg 74 ...just see the help link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/cb/7f9b7043b711d189410000e829fbbd/frameset.htm

Cross Plant Planning for External procured Material in MRP with their stock

Dear Gurus,
I have one requirement my client want Cross plant planning in MRP. this plants are only site plants no Manufacturing. All materials in these plants are Externally Procure Materials(F). Now they want cross plant planning for Externally Procure Materials or cross plant planning for Externally Procure Materials with consider all plant stock details while planning.
can you tell me procedure for this,
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Devraj

Hi,
In R/3 you cannot consider all plants in planning, you have to use SAP APO to achieve your goal (if your goal is to optimize the procurement in your plants). When you execute MRP run in R/3 it will only consider the details of one single plant.
I mean if you have several plants used for external procurement, and you want to make an optimal decision considering all the stocks and open transactional data, requirements in those plants, it is not possible in R/3 as per my knowledge - multi site/plant planning won't give you such optimal solutiion.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/f4/7d2d4d44af11d182b40000e829fbfe/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/7e/63fc37004d0a1ee10000009b38f8cf/frameset.htm
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Csaba
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Material requirement grouping Project delivery

Hello,
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Hi,
please read FAQ note 677169 section 3:
b) Why is availability check not executed in CNS0 ?
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Precisely,
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Depot>Plant 1>Planned order (PlOrd)
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dear colleague,
Please check the following info that can be useful:
1) Note 358936 is relevant for MRP areas of type storage location and
   not for Subcontractor MRP areas (which you would be knowing).
2) Secondly this note was created as an advance development and not
   for any particular customer problem. It was also feasible to
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3) The feature of procurement with Schedule lines for components
   in subcontractor MRP areas is not available in the standard SAP
   suite and there are no plans to develop this in the near future.
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best regards

T code for Material,plant, stock and price data in std sap

Dear All,
In Std SAP is der any t-code to get Material,plant, stock and price data in 1 go..
waiting for ur early reply
Regards
Nainesh

Hi,
Try T.Code: MC.9 and MC.5 etc. These reports will give you total value of the stock but not unit price.
If you are looking at unit price please write a small query using SQVI or append the relevant info structure.
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For STO with billing how to take material in plant stock without cancelling excise duty

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Scenario is
Material transffered from manufacturing plant to depot,material is in transit now, but due to some reason material calls back to manufacturing plant.
Since the excise invoice is raised and material move out of factory client can not cancel excise invoice from legal point of view & client has to pay excise duty for the material movement.
Please suggest how to take back goods to manufacturing plant without cancelling excise invoice.
We have suggested client as there is no provision to take back goods to manufacturing plant without cancelling excise invoice
and to take back material to manufacturing plant stock they have to cancel excise invoice and other related documents.
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I don't think, there is a statutory rule which says, manufacturer should not cancel the excise invoice generated on their Depot plant. Justification can very well be given to Excise authorities and hence, ask your client to follow the normal process by treating this as Depot returns.
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Periodic material requirment in project

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I need your help in my project requirment :- We are working for construction project were we have an activity for concrete work.
now total work involved in this activity is 120m3 and the duration is 12 months. So period wise 10m3 work i am going to execute.
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Hi,
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