Calculating Average Plant Stock 

Use

The average plant stock can be used to determine the opening stock for long-term planning. If you want to start long-term planning using the average plant stock, a separate report is available in long-term planning.

The system uses the data that was updated in Inventory Controlling to calculate the average plant stock.

Procedure

To determine the average plant stock for long-term planning, proceed as follows:

  1. Starting from the Long-term Planning node, choose Long-term planning → Average plant stock.

The system branches to the initial screen for calculating the average stock.

  1. Enter the following parameters to allocate the average plant stock:

– Planning scenario

– Plant

– If necessary, the MRP controller

  1. Enter the period in which the average plant stock is to be calculated.
  2. If you first want to carry out the report in test mode, select the Test mode (no database changes) field.
  3. If you want to see a list with the average stocks of the individual materials in the selected plant, select the Display individual results field.