In Solvay, in most of the GBU, the raw materials are ordered by the factories employees but packaging materials are centralized in Lisbon. The role of the factory employees is: For raw materials, define which quantities needs to be ordered to insure the production, create the purchase orders and send it to the vendors. However, this is procurement team who negotiate with the vendors and create the contracts. For packaging materials, the factory employees create purchase requisitions that are converted to purchase orders under the responsibility of the Lisbon procurement team. This training material describe how to use the MRP run to define the dates and quantities needed to insure the production planned. As soon as the stocks are always correct in SAP and the production scheduling well done using MF50, the materials replenishment activities are almost automatics. |
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Provisioning best practices : This tutorial describe how to manage the raw and pack materials replenishment in an easy way. As soon as the material master data fields are well updated in MM02 transaction, the calculation of the deliveries needed to insure production is very simple. This training does not contain how to update master data. This is included in the production scheduling master data here for PF1 and here for WP1. The meaning of the fields are the same for both production scheduling and material replenishement
Materials master data fields for raw material stored in a tank. For a good result of the MRP run, it is important to fill the material master date fields in a logical way: you cannot have conflicts between the fields. example : a maximum lot size lower than the minimum lot size. This small video describe how to manage those fields for a storage in a tank.
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