Planning scenario is used in Long Term Planning. LTP is just a simulation of the entire planning process. It is used by the planning department, finance persons and other top level management persons to check the effect of demands on inventory, capacity, budgets, profitability etc. Based on the results they will either adjust the demand or on the flip side they will decrease or increase the inventories , capacities etc.
The steps are as follows:
1. A planning scenario has to be created for a plant in Tcode MS31 and for the same Planning scenario configuration settings has to be made in OPU5 for the planned orders for LTP.
User SAP Menu
- Production -> Production Planning -> Long-Term Planning -> Planning scenario -> Create
2. Requirements has to be given in MD61 in an inactive version and also after giving the requirements. Kindly remove the tick mark against version - active check box.
3. Assign this plan to the planning scenario in MS32, release it and ensure the planning file entries are entered or created, the same can be checked using MS21.
4. After taking LTP simulation run in MS02 (individual material) or MS01 you can see the simulated planned orders obtained in MS04 Tcode.
5. These Simulated planned orders can't be converted into production orders or it can’t be used for any business confirmation purpose.
6. For capacity planning analysis, use Tcode CM38
Before that Ensure for all the work centers in CR03 which are used for operation under capacity header you have included the check box for Long term planning, otherwise in CM38 you can't see any capacity requirements data.
7. Before executing CM38, ensure under settings -> general, you have giving the period settings properly.
Notes:
In MS32, after releasing, there is one tab by name "Activate Independent Requirements". What is the purpose of this tab?
When you want to activate that inactive version requirements, you can mention the source version (in active version) and the target version say 00 (To active version). Again there's test mode to check the execution and a create List mode.
Also, check Tcode MS64, to copy the requirements data from one version to another version.
