Accept/Revoke MRP Run results in the Stock/Requirements List and MRP Fiori Apps

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MRP Lists are part of the SAP S/4HANA compatibility scope, which means that customers will lose usage rights for MRP Lists transactions and tables. SAP recommends companies should start using either the Stock/Requirements List or the MRP Cockpit Fiori apps to evaluate the MRP results, as I mentioned in my blog MRP Lists are gone with MRP Live! What should I do now?. However, users were still missing some of the old MRP List functionalities. 

When comparing the old MRP List transactions with the Stock/Requirements List or the MRP Fiori apps, most MRP planners missed a processing indicator that can highlight which materials had already been processed after the MRP run.

To fill this GAP, SAP introduced a new feature to accept or revoke MRP Run result in transactions MD04 / MD07 and the MRP Cockpit Fiori apps, as described in SAP Note 3576000. Let’s understand how this new feature works.

Accept MRP Results in the Fiori Apps

When we access the new Fiori App Monitor Material Coverage (F0247), we can add thew new column MRP Result Accepted to the materials list, along with the corresponding filter in the header, as we can see in Figure 1.

Figure 1: MRP Result Acceptance in the Monitor Material Coverage app

When accessing a material for the first time after it has been planned by MRP, will have the value Not Accepted, because the MRP result was not yet evaluated by the planner. As we can see in Figure 1, the MRP Results were not accepted for most materials, with the exception of material RM16.

When selecting materials to be managed and navigating to the app Manage Material Coverage (F0251), we will see the new button Accept MRP Result in the lower-right corner, as highlighted in the Figure 2.  

Figure 2: MRP Result Acceptance in the Manage Material Coverage app

Once this button is clicked, the value of MRP Result Accepted will be changed to Accepted in Monitor MRP Coverage. We can then filter out materials for which the MRP result has been already accepted, allowing planners to focus on those still pending evaluation.

The acceptance of MRP results can be manually revoked in app Manage Material Coverage app, or it will be automatically revoked whenever the material is planned again by MRP. Figure 3 shows that the button in the right-lower corner changed to Revoke MRP Result after the acceptance.

Figure 3: Revoke Acceptance of the MRP Result in the Manage Material Coverage app

Accept MRP Results in the Stock/Requirements List

The acceptance of the MRP results was not only introduced in the MRP Cockpit Fiori apps, but also in the SAP GUI transactions MD07 and MD04, so the MRP planner who is still using the classical transactions will also have the ability to accept and revoke the MRP results.

When launching the collective access of the Stock/Requirements List (transaction MD07), a new tab will be available under the Restrict Selection screen section. Here, users can choose to display all Stock/Requirements, only those for which the MRP results have been accepted, or only those for which the MRP results has not been accepted. Figure 4 highlights the new fields available on the selection screen of the Stock/Requirements List.

Figure 4: MRP Result Acceptance Status in the Stock/Requirements List.

When opening a material in the Stock/Requirements List, we will see the new button Accept MRP Result in the header menu, as shown in Figure 5.  

Figure 5: Accept MRP Result button in the Stock/Requirements List.

Once we accept the MRP results, the button changes to Revoke Acceptance, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6: Revoke Acceptance button in the Stock/Requirements List.

Implementing the “Accept/Revoke MRP Run results” feature

The feature to Accept/Revoke MRP results can be enabled in SAP S/4HANA 2023 with the implementation of the following notes:

No.	SAP Note	Description
1	3576000	SAP- Production Planning- New Feature to accept/revoke MRP Run result through MD07 and Manage material coverage Fiori Application
2	3583983	SAP- Production Planning- Accept/revoke MRP Run result in Monitor material coverage- Net & Individual segments Fiori Application (F2101A)
3	3583982	SAP- Production Planning- Accept/revoke MRP Run result in Monitor material coverage- Net segments (F0247A)
4	3583728	SAP- Production Planning- Accept/revoke MRP Run result in Manage material coverage Fiori Application (F0251A)
5	3582358	SAP- Production Planning- Accept/revoke MRP Run result in Manage material coverage Fiori Application (F0251)
6	3582655	SAP- Production Planning- Accept/revoke MRP Run result in MRP Cockpit Reuse Component Container application (F0844)

The implementation of these notes into the SAP S/4HANA system will bring changes into standard transactions, such as MD04 and MD07, and Fiori Apps like Manage Material Coverage and Monitor Material Coverage. These notes will also introduce the new table PPMRP_ACKNWLEDGE, where the indicator IS_PLN_RSLT_ACKNOWLEDGED is marked when the MRP Results are accepted.

With the introduction of the Accept/Revoke MRP Run Results feature, SAP continues to bridge the functional gaps between MRP List transactions, that are part of the compatibility scope, and the modern Fiori experience. This enhancement will allow MRP planners to manage their workload more effectively by clearly distinguishing evaluated from non-evaluated materials. 

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