Total Planning 
Use
Total planning covers the planning of all the materials that are relevant for requirements planning and includes the BOM explosion for materials with a bill of material.
You can use total planning for a single plant or you can use the scope of planning to control whether the total planning run is executed on a multi-plant level
- for several plants
- for one MRP area
- for several MRP areas
- for a combination of plants and MRP areas.
Prerequisites
Only for multi-plant planning with scope of planning:
- You have grouped together the plants or alternatively the MRP areas, which are to be planned together, in Customizing for MRP in the IMG activity Define scope of planning for total planning.
- In Customizing for MRP, you have made the necessary settings for Parallel processing in the IMG activity Define parallel processing in MRP.
Features
Defining the Scope of Planning
- You can define different scope of planning groups in Customizing.
- You specify the sequence of the individual MRP units (plants or MRP areas) for each scope of planning by entering a counter. This counter defines the sequence in which the MRP units are to be planned.
- You can enter as many plants as you like in the scope of planning.
- If you have activated material requirements planning with MRP areas, the entry of a plant thus includes all the MRP areas of this plant. During the planning run, the MRP areas of a plant are always planned in the following sequence: plant MRP area, storage location MRP area, subcontractor MRP area.
- You can, however, also enter one or several MRP areas in the scope of planning and thus restrict the total planning run to these MRP areas.
Executing the Total Planning Run for the Scope of Planning
You can execute total planning with scope of planning either online or as a background job.
The planning run always has to be started with parallel processing.
With stock transfer or production in alternative plant, the system creates the corresponding planning file entries in the alternative plant. If the alternative plant is included in the scope of planning, the system continues to plan the materials in the alternative plant. If the alternative plant is not included in the scope of planning or if you plan for a single plant without entering a scope of planning, the system does not plan in the alternative plant.