S/4HANA 2020: Automatic assignment of Storage Location MRP Area to Material Master

[Caetano]

As you probably already know, SAP S/4HANA introduced a simplification for the storage location planning scenario and it is now a requirement to use MRP Areas if you need to plan a storage location separately or to exclude it from MRP. (if you are not aware of this simplification, check this blog)

With this simplification in place, SAP is trying to bring new features to improve the S/4HANA usability, such as the improvements in MD04 delivered in MD04 (see details here)

SAP S/4HANA 2020 brought a new feature that will simplify the master data maintenance for materials with MRP Areas. In ECC, it was possible to define a default value for the storage location MRP indicator in the customizing transaction OMIR, therefore, whenever a storage location was extended for MRP, it would be automatically excluded from MRP or planned separately.

Now, in S/4HANA 2020, it is possible to automatically assign a storage location MRP Area to a material when extending this storage location to a material, and have default values for the MRP fields in the MRP area. This feature allows a storage location to be automatically excluded from MRP or planned separately whenever it is extended for a material. So let's check how this feature can be enabled in the system.

The first step is to create an MRP Area Profile in customizing and the following picture shows the IMG activity path to this customizing activity.

MRP Area Profile Customizing

 

In the MRP Area Profile we will define default values for the MRP fields under the MRP Area. These values will be used when extending the storage location assigned to the storage location to the material master, if the feature is active for the MRP Area. By setting the flag Copy Field, the value defined at the material master at plant level will be copied to the MRP Area.

MRP Area Profile

 

After the profile creation, we need to check the flag Assign Materials Automatically and assign the profile to the MRP Area in the MRP Area customizing (transaction OMIZ).

MRP Area Customizing

 

With this setting in place, whenever we extend storage location 0004 (which is the storage location assigned to the MRP Area) to a new material, it will automatically create the assignment to the MRP Area, with the field values proposed on the profile. The following figure shows the MRP Area that was automatically assigned to a material. Note that the MRP Area will be created in background, once we save the material, so we will not see when extending the storage location in MM01.

MRP Area

 

This feature is one more step to streamline the adoption of MRP Areas in S/4HANA and I hope you can leverage this new feature to simplify the master data maintenance in your system.

[i520]

Hi Caetano,

 

Thank  you for this useful blog.

 

regards.

Farid.

[MudiamReddy]

Hi Caetano,

 

Thank you for this useful information.

Regards

Reddy Mudiam

[Prasath]

Hi Ceatano,

As per blog we can see that MRP area can be assigned automatically with PD MRP type with this we can plan it separately but when we want exclude the storage location from MRP what could be customization to be done.

Best regards

Prasath E

[venu_ch8]

Nice Blog..

[Caetano]

Hello

You can set MRP type ND.

Regards,

Caetano

[former_member687107]

Hi Caetano,

I create planned independent requirements (MD61) for FERT at MRP area and I want run MRP for raw material. I assigned production storage location field in MRP area for raw material but system couldn't check production storage location in MRP area. How to fix issue?

Thanks and best regards,

Trang Nguyen'

[Caetano]

Hello

Would you please open a separated question for your issue? The SAP Communities guidelines do not recommend troubleshooting issues in blog comments.

Regards,
Caetano

[former_member687107]

Sorry Caetano,

I opened question for my issue. I hope you will help me answer this question.

This link:

https://answers.sap.com/questions/13453253/assignment-of-production-storage-location-at-mrp-a.html

Thanks and best regards,

Trang Nguyen

[former_member805289]

Hello Caetano,

Assign Assign Materials Automatically is not showing up. ( Note that we are using the latest upgrade). Could you please help?

[former_member805289]

I just figured it out, if anyone has any issue with this you need to do this from spro not from omiz.

 

 

[Caetano]

Hello Yigit,

You can use transaction OMIZA, which was recently delivered for the storage location MRP Area maintenance.

Regards,
Caetano

[gharrison]

Thanks for sharing

[Caetano]

You are welcome Graham!

[Yuri_Michelon]

Hi Caetano.

Thanks for sharing. Do you know if this feature will be available for article master (Retail/Fashion)?

Best regards,

Yuri

[former_member352218]

Hi Caetano,

Thanks for your post is very helpful.

I replicated the configuration, but when I extend a material, the MDMA table not updating and the MRP area neither. It is necessary maintain the program RMMDDIBE?

Kind Regards,

[Caetano]

It should be working. Make sure that you set the flag Assign Materials Automatically and test again. If the issue persists, you can open an incident to SAP.

[wprawecki_1]

H Caetano,

Is there possibility to assign storage location MRP Area automatically in S4Hana 1909 for new materials ? I would like to exclude new materials from MRP in specific storage locations.

I am thinking about running RMMDDIBE02 periodically via job, but job doesn't know exact material numbers, that were created since last run of RMMDDIBE02. If I run RMMDDIBE02 for wide range, then report selects also existing materials and then reports in log it as errors.

Is there a better way to assign storage location MRP Area automatically for new materials before S4Hana 2020 ?

Best regards

WP

[S0024099464]

Hello Caetano,

 

very nice blog post.

i would have one question - do you know if there is some report which will extend materials which were extended to storage location before the storage location was added to MRP area?

In report RMMDDIBE you need to explicitely define the materials.

 

Regards

D. Medlík

[Eric8]

Hi Caetano

Thanks for your blog. 

Do you have any ideas for how to automatically create the corresponding MRP area of the subcontracting supplier for the subcontracting materials by using the formal function in the SAP, like the storage locations (ND-MRP area) automatically assign to the material.

Thanks,

Alex