Dependent requirements ind. for individual and coll. reqmts

Indicator determining whether the following requirements are allowed for the dependent requirements of the material:

Individual requirements

Requirement quantities of the dependent material are stated individually.

Collective requirements

Requirement quantities of the dependent material are grouped together.

Use

You can maintain this indicator in the following places:

In the material master record

For the explosion type of the BOM item (in Customizing for Basic Data in Define Explosion Types)

The setting for the explosion type overrides that in the material master record.

Dependencies

If the material is assigned to a material type that does not allow quantity-based inventory management in this plant, you can set the indicator to individual requirements only.

If the stock is to be managed in sales order stock or project stock, the indicator must be set to one of the following options:

Individual and collective requirements

Individual requirements only

If a material managed in project stock is to be procured from another plant using a cross-company-code stock transport order, the indicator must be set to 2 (collective requirements) in the issuing plant because, in this specific context, individual project stock management is not possible in both plants.

Method for Selecting Alternative Bills of Material

Indicator determining the selection of the alternative BOM when requirements are exploded in material requirements planning.

Use

With Selection by order quantity, the system chooses the alternative BOM into whose lot size range the order quantity falls. The lot size range and area of validity of the BOM apply.

With Selection by explosion date, the system chooses the alternative BOM into whose area of validity the date falls according to the setting BOM via dates.

With Selection by production version, the system chooses the alternative BOM defined in the valid production version. The lot size range and area of validity of the production version apply.

With Selection only by production version, the system chooses the alternative BOM defined in the valid production version. The lot size range and area of validity of the production version apply.If no production version is found, no production orders or process orders can be created.

Checking Group for Availability Check

This field has two uses:

1. Specifies whether and how the system checks availability and generates requirements for materials planning.

2. In Flexible Planning, defines - together with the checking rule - the different MRP elements that make up this key figure. The sum of these elements gives the key figure.

Use 1: Availability Checking and Materials Planning

Use

The value you enter for use 1 (see above) is a default value which defines:

Which MRP elements (for example, purchase orders, reservations) the system includes in the availability check

Whether the system checks availability only until the end of the replenishment lead time or whether it checks availability over the entire period for which MRP elements exist

Whether the system generates individual requirements or summarized requirements if you enter sales orders or deliveries for the material

Use 2: Flexible Planning

Dependencies

If you use this field to define the MRP elements of a key figure for Flexible Planning, you must also select Document KF in the Customizing parameters of the information structure.