Cross Plant Planning

Cross-Plant Planning

Demand Management can also be used to plan across plants. For each material, there is a planning plant that procures and stores the materials independently of orders.

There are also one or more ordering plants where the materials are used for sales orders, production orders, or for other requirements.


Set up the material master as follows:

Planning Plant
Any strategy group
Mixed MRP indicator = 1

Ordering Plant
Special procurement type = 40

Process Flow
The following table illustrates a typical process flow:
Planning Plant  : Planned independent requirements are created in Demand Management and trigger procurement.
Procurement takes place before the sales order arrives and materials are placed in stock.

Ordering Plant :

Any order (sales order, production order, reservation) is created.
A stock transport order is created (for example, by converting a transfer request that
was created by the MRP run).
Delivery for the stock transport order.
Goods receipt for the stock transport order.
Material is available for order.