Copying Firm Planned Orders from Operative Planning 
Use
To simulate short and mid-term production planning, you require a realistic representation of the current operative planning situation. Therefore, as well as the fixed receipts, you can also copy the firm planned orders from operative planning to long-term planning where you can process them.
Prerequisites
To copy firm planned orders, you have two options:
- In the planning scenario, you must flag the Include firm planned orders field and in the initial screen of the long-term planning run, in the Firm planned orders field, you must enter the indicator Use setting in the planning scenario.
- In the initial screen of the long-term planning run, in the Firm planned orders field, you enter the indicator Copy firm planned orders from operative planning.
Features
The system copies the firm planned orders to long-term planning per material in the planning run. Here, the system selects and copies all the firm planned orders for every material in a BOM structure irrespective of whether the orders were firmed as a result of the planning time fence or manual changes.
In long-term planning, the system saves the MRP date of the planned order last on the time axis to be copied from operative planning for each material.
When copying the planned orders from operative planning, the system deletes all existing firm and unfirm simulative planned orders in the period being copied from long-term planning.
Only the planned order headers are copied. This means that any changes to components made in operative planning are lost in the copying process.
The planned orders copied to long-term planning are automatically firmed.
Assembly orders are only displayed in long-term planning as you cannot change sales orders in long-term planning.
In direct production, you can only change the header order of an order network. The other planned orders are displayed only since only the header order is copied.