Planned Independent requirements and Fiscal Year Variants

[timothy_northcott]

Hi

We want to control where within the period the VSF demand is placed when we enter Planned Independent requirements in transaction MD61/MD62 using the period indicator (which uses the Fiscal period from Material Master).

It places demand for the first day of the period, but because of Goods receipt processing time and / or the use of planning calendars on Materials, the demand is often pushed back into the previous fiscal period which is undesirable.

It is not possible to assign a different fiscal variant in the material master as we get the error 'Consumption values already exist for fiscal year variant WA'

[timothy_northcott]

Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately, this still will not resolve the issue. We want to schedule material to arrive near to the beginning of the period. so when using the period or monthly indicator when creating planned independant requirements, the requirement would be for the the 5th of each month for example

We use different lot sizing depending on planning required. In most cases, lot for lot is used. We also use dynamic weekly, dynamic monthly, and PK (planning calendars) to force the system to schedule material to arrive on certain day(s) of the week depending on which days te supplier can deliver.

Good receipt processing time of 1-4 days is used when we have incoming inspection on materials. This pushes the scheduled receipt dates to te previosu periods.

[former_member184655]

Dear Timothy,

Check by assigning a montly lot size in the MRP1 view of the material master for that product and set the value as 2 - for

scheduling in OMI4 for the monthly lot size(period End = Delivery date).

Check and revert

Regards

Mangalraj.S

[madlercm]

If it makes any business sense in your case, it is possible to customize the system in such a way that demand entered in a period is on the last date of that period. This way it will always be in the same period even if you have lead times (less than a period of course).