From the course: Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Strategies in SAP

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Planning at assembly level

Planning at assembly level

I'm your instructor, Matthew Hunt. And we're now going to get into a section called Strategies for Planning Components. So these would all be MRP strategies where you enter your planning information at the component level, which is always at least one level down from the final assembly in the bill of material. and we will talk about a few different strategies. The first one's strategy 70, is Planning at an Assembly Level. This is very similar to strategy 40. We talked about in the Make to Stock section, but planning at the component level versus the final product level. The third is a multi-use strategy. Multi-use meaning the component part is used both in production and it's sold out of the manufacturing plant as a spare part. Some of the transaction codes I'll use later on in the demo will be MD61, creating planned independent requirements, MM02, changing the material master, MD04, the stock/requirements list, VA01, create a sales order, VL01N to create a delivery, the MIGO…

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