Managing Planned Orders in SAP S/4HANA

When MRP finds a shortage for a material, it will generate a replenishment proposal to cover this shortage. For materials procured internally, the replenishment proposal is a planning object called a planned order. The planned order will later be used in repetitive manufacturing or converted to a production or process order. If you are using classic MRP in SAP S/4HANA, you also have the option to let MRP generate planned orders for materials procured externally; those planned orders should later be converted to purchase requisitions. A planned order is merely a planning object that is deleted from the database after the conversion or the backflush, so there is no archiving object for planned orders. Planned orders are generally created by MRP during the planning run, but they also can be created manually in Transaction MD11 if you expect a future receipt to come on a given date. SAP S/4HANA 2020 introduced the new Create Order action button in the Manage Material Coverage app, and this button can be used to quickly create planned orders while you are evaluating the MRP results. There are different planned order profiles available in the SAP S/4HANA system, but the profile for a giv...