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In this step you name your coverage strategy and assign valid stock and requirements categories to it.

You describe your coverage strategy with the name coverage strategy for all plants. You have defined the structure of your stock and requirements categories in the previous table with the help of the following structure fields Quality and Customer Segment (compare Define Category Structure and Relevance). You determine your stock and requirements categories, such as Quality 001 and Customer segment A, and assign them to your coverage strategy.

Enter your coverage strategy for each plant in this table and flag it with a field key and assign a short text.

A coverage strategy is considered used when you have entered its field key in the material master in the view AFS-MRP - that is, you have assigned the coverage strategy to a material. You can use eight characters for the name of your coverage strategy.

Here you assign the valid stock and requirements categories to your coverage strategy for each plant. You can describe it using a short text. They appear in the dialog box in the application. The categories assigned to your coverage strategy are considered used when you have created a document such as a sales order. You cannot subsequently delete the categories or change their structure.

AFS recommends that you define a requirements category with a blank character. Here you can combine all the requirements that cannot be uniquely assigned.

Define the coverage strategy (key and short description) and the stock and requirements categories valid for it. Assign these to your coverage strategy.

You assign your coverage strategy to the material master (view: AFS-MRP). You can no longer change this if you have set the AFS material master status MRP indicator.

The exception is the zero coverage strategy. This has been automatically created by the system. You can subsequently overwrite the zero coverage strategy in the material master with another coverage strategy. To guarantee the validity of the subsequent documents such as sales orders or purchase orders, you should assign this coverage strategy a stock category as well as a requirements category that have a blank character.

Part Two:

Normal;Maintain Category Allocation

Here you determine the conversion for your coverage strategy. You assign the requirements categories to the stock categories. This allocation is relevant for the MRP.

Requirements

You must define your coverage strategy as well as the assignment of the valid categories to this coverage strategy.

Standard settings

1. Coverage Strategies

You select the coverage strategy for which you want to carry out the following assignments. When maintaining the tables, the system automatically uses the selected coverage strategy. Each value entered can be displayed for one coverage strategy.

If you copy or delete the coverage strategies, this will affect all the following tables. If you delete your coverage strategy, all of its valid categories and their conversion strategies will be deleted. If you copy a coverage strategy to another plant or another coverage strategy, all of the dependent settings will be copied as well.

2. MRP: Stock/Requirements Allocation

In this table you specify how the requirements categories will be consumed with the stock categories during the planning run. The system takes the available stock as well as the procurement proposals into account. If several stock categories are to be consumed with certain requirements categories, you must put them in a valid sequence. You can use the sequence number for equal categories to specify an assignment sequence.

You can also use the MRP module to control the assignment of the requirements categories to the stock categories during the planning run. If you do not maintain a module, the system automatically carries out FIFO. The MRP level additionally prioritizes the defined modules.

The result of the availability check with reference to the requirements category will be fixed in the sales order using the "fixed" indicator. If you want to use this function, you must maintain an assignment sequence of the stock and requirements categories in the above mentioned table. In addition, replace the requirements category with a fixed requirements category and assign it to the stock category. You can only maintain this assignment once in this table. The system then finds the fixed assignment using the stock category and the "fixed" indicator for the availability check in the customer master. The MRP transfers the assignment of the fixed requirements category to its stock category.

3. Dependent Requirements

Here you define how the categories are consumed during the BOM explosion. Here the stock category describes the category of the finished product which is determined either by the available stock or a planned order. The requirements category indicates the category of the dependent requirement of the components.

For example, a customer requires a coat in category 001A. Due to costs, you only use components such as fabric, thread, and buttons, that are in category 002B for manufacturing this coat.

Within this table, entries will also be made for cross-plant processes. These are processes that are described as special procurement in the standard.

4. Requirement for Stock Conversion

Here you define the assignment of the categories if the requirement of a specific category cannot be met using the available stock or procurement proposals. The system then creates planned orders or purchase requisitions during the MRP, dependent on the procurement type of the material.

5. Consumption Planned Independent Requirement

In this table you define which categories of independent requirements are consumed by which requirements categories in the sales order.

Further Hints

* are placeholders and indicate a 1:1 assignment of a requirements category to a specific stock category. For example, you have created the requirements category 001* and the stock category 001*. The system searches for stock in category 001B for a requirement in category 001B.

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