SAP S/4HANA introduced several simplifications in Production Planning, especially for Material Requirements Planning (MRP), as I explained in my blog MRP: Simplifications in S/4HANA. One of these simplifications is known as Simplified Sourcing, and i...
I recently came across an interesting thread in the SAP Community, where a user was asking if he can block users to change the production order quantity. I think that this is the perfect business requirement to demonstrate how we can implement a simp...
Back in 2014 I wrote the blog How to analyze transaction MD04 in debug, which explained how we could analyze the execution of the Stock/Requirements List (transaction MD04) in debug mode, in order to understand which how is selected and resolve commo...
SAP S/4HANA introduced the new BAdI PPH_SUPPLY_DEMAND_LIST, which allows us to change, add or exclude MRP elements from the MRP run in both MRP Live and Classic MRP. This BAdI is also called in MRP evaluation transactions (such as MD04) and the MRP C...
I have worked for 8 years in SAP Product Support, specializing in resolving incidents related to Production Planning, particularly those involving Material Requirements Planning (MRP). Throughout those years, I encountered various challenging issues,...
HelloI also receive private messages in the SAP Community and in Linkedin. People probably see that we are answering many questions and they approach us privately because they don't want appear publicly asking a question, or because it is easier to a...
HelloMRP does not consider the component delivery date when scheduling a planned order. MRP will always plan the parent materials first, and there is no information about the component replenishment when creating a planned order, so the logic you are...
HelloI don't think you can add an existing order into a collective order.Collective orders are created automatically by the system, depending on the component settings. Regards,Caetano