SAP ABAP Data Element SALESDEMANDIMPORTANCE (Order of Importance for Sales Demands)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   ⤷ PP-MRP (Application Component) Material Requirements Planning
     ⤷ PPH_GENERAL (Package) PP on HANA: General Functions
Basic Data
Data Element SALESDEMANDIMPORTANCE
Short Description Order of Importance for Sales Demands  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type SALESDEMANDIMPORTANCE    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 2    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 2    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
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Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Importance 
Medium 15 SalesDmdsImprt. 
Long 20 Sales Demands Imprt. 
Heading 30 Sales Demands Importance 
Documentation

Definition

Specifies a detailed order of importance for your sales demands required for the calculation of uncovered demands.

Use

You define the order of importance for your sales demands in two steps:

  1. When assigning MRP element categories to the demand groups, you define the category importance. This specifies a high-level grouping for all demand elements.
    Note that the category importance is relevant for prioritizing all demands and not only sales demands.
  2. In this field Sales Demand Importance, you can then define a more detailed sorting rule for the sales demands bundled within the demand group Ordered Demands. You define this sort rule based on the creation date, requirements date, and item priority.
    Note that the sales demand importance is only relevant to sales demands for the calculation of uncovered demands.

Dependencies

Example

For example, your sales orders are grouped together in the demand group Ordered Demands to which you have assigned a category importance. This could mean that a large number of sales orders all have the same priority ranking. To enable the system to determine an order of importance within the demand group, a more detailed sort rule is required.

With the option, Creation Date (1), Requirement Date (2), Item Priority (3), for example, you can instruct the system to first cover sales orders with the earliest creation date, then the sales orders with the earliest requirement date, and finally it should cover the sales orders according to item priority.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20140121 
SAP Release Created in 618