SAP ABAP IMG Activity SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ (Define Availability Check for Components)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   ⤷ PP-MRP-BD (Application Component) Master Data
     ⤷ MD0C (Package) Customizing R/3 Material Requirements Planning
IMG Activity
ID SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ Define Availability Check for Components  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87006303   IMG Activity: SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ 
Created on 19981222    
Customizing Attributes SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ   Define Availability Check for Components 
Customizing Activity SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ   Define Availability Check for Components 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ    

In this step, you control the availability check for requirements planning by defining the checking group and the checking rule at plant level or per MRP group.
The availability check can be carried out in MRP for the depedendent requirements. This means that the availability check can directly check whether sufficient material is available for the production of the assembly. The availability check is initiated from planned order processing. It is not carried out automatically in the planning run for each requirement of an assembly.

In the checking group, several checking rules are grouped together. Therefore, you can define different checking rules for different business application areas (sales and distribution, MRP, production orders, inventory management) or for different business operations. If you require different checking rules for different business operations, you can create several checking groupes with the appropriate checking rules or you can assign another checking rule using the MRP group. The checking group is assigned to the material in the material master record, MRP 2 screen, in field "Availability check".

The combination of the checking group and the checking rule determines the scope of the availability check. That is, which stocks, requirement elements and receipt elements are to be included in the availability check. Moreover, per combination, you define whether the system is to carry out the check with or without the replenishment lead time:

  • In the check with the replenishment lead time:

    Here, the availability check is carried out within the replenishment lead time. Requirements that lie outside the replenishment lead time are automatically considered available by the system.

  • In the check without the replenishment lead time:

    Here, the system checks the complete time axis for availablity. This means that requirements can only be committed once receipts or stocks of the appropriate quantity have been scheduled or are available.

Note

The replenishment lead time includes:

  • For external procurement: planned delivery time and goods receipt processing time (MRP 1 screen) as well as the processing time required by the purchasing department.
  • For in-house production: in-house production time plus the goods receipt processing time (MRP 1 screen) or the
    total replenishment lead time (MRP 2 screen)

A checking period is also defined in the checking rul for inventory management. This checking period determines the number of days into the future that the system checks whether missing parts exist for the material. Within the checking period, a mail is sent from inventory management which informs the MRP controller that a goods receipt has been made for a missing part. The receiver of this mail is maintained in section MRP controller.

Note

  • For backorder processing, you can define a separate checking rule for backorder processing in the plant parameters.

    The checking group is assigned to the material in the material master record in the Availability check field in the MRP 2 screen.

  • In material requirements planning do NOT use the checking rules whose keys start with either A or B as these areas are used by sales and distribution.

Actions

  1. Define the key and the short description for the checking rule(s).
  2. Assign the checking rule(s) to one or more checking groups and define the following per checking rule:
    • Scope of checking
    • whether with or without the replenishment lead time
    • if necessary, define the checking period for processing missing parts (inventroy management)
  3. Assign the checking rule(s) to one or more plants.
  4. Assign the checking rules to the MRP groups.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 1   Mandatory activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG SIMG_CFMENUOPP1OPPJ 0 HLA0006456 O HLA0006250 O HLA0006431  
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
OPPJ T - Individual transaction object OPPJ 9999999999 MRP Checking Rule 
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19981222 
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