Using Collective Access for MRP Lists 

Use

You want to display the stock/requirements situation for a series of materials in the MRP list.

Prerequisites

  • You have run MRP for the materials using single-item planning or total planning.
  • You have entered in the control parameters for the planning run that the system should create MRP lists.

Procedure

  1. From the MRP or MPS menu, select Evaluations → MRP list collective display.

You now branch into the collective access screen.

  1. In collective access:
    • Enter the plant and one of the following parameters: MRP controller, product group, class or vendor.

If you do not enter any further selection criteria, the system selects all the materials assigned to this MRP controller, to this product group or to this vendor in the respective plant.

    • If the work with MRP areas is activated for a single client, you enter either the plant (= all MRP areas including the plant MRP area) or only one particular MRP area, and, in addition, either the MRP controller, the product group or the vendor.

If you do not enter any further selection criteria, the system selects all the materials assigned to this MRP controller, to this product group or to this vendor in the selected MRP area or in all MRP areas. Materials that are assigned to five MRP areas are displayed, where applicable, with five MRP lists.

  1. If required, enter further selection criteria.
    • Date: for example, all MRP lists that were created or processed within the last two weeks, or MRP lists for all materials with insufficient stock for the next two weeks.
    • Exception groups: for example, MRP lists for all materials for which the planning run was terminated (exception group 8).
    • Processing indicator: for example, all MRP lists that have not yet been processed.
    • Material data: for example, MRP lists for all materials that are procured externally.
  1. If required, choose a display filter (see Filtering Information).

For example, a display filter that only displays the planned orders for the next two weeks in the stock/requirements list for the materials assigned to a selected MRP controller.

You can save all selection parameters by choosing the menu path Settings → Save. They are then predefined the next time that you access the transaction.

  1. Choose .

The system displays long texts that describe the chosen settings.

  1. Check the settings and choose again.

Result

The material list appears. This includes all the materials that fulfill your selection criteria (see Sorting Material Lists, Creating Worklists).

In the material list, you can display the ranges of coverage and the stock values using graphics and you can do this for more than one material at the same time (see Graphic Display, Graphic Display of Lists).