Long term planning (Simulative MRP) is used to simulate the future demand and supply situation in all BOM levels. The main function is to check the capacity situation, material requirement and vendor ability to provide the material in desired time. This is not an actual run but a simulative run where actual planning situation is not being affected, and we can see the capacity situation of the work centers well ahead in time. If such information is available in advance, then we can decide at an early date whether additional machines will be required to cope with capacity bottlenecks.

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Long term planning (Simulative MRP) is used to simulate the future demand and supply
situation in all BOM levels. The main function is to check the capacity situation, material
requirement and vendor ability to provide the material in desired time.
This is not an actual run but a simulative run where actual planning situation is not being
affected, and we can see the capacity situation of the work centers well ahead in time. If such
information is available in advance, then we can decide at an early date whether additional
machines will be required to cope with capacity bottlenecks.
 LTP (Long Term Planning) is nothing but MRP run in simulation version to simulate the
production plan for the future.
 It is possible to transfer the plan from simulative version to operative version "00"(actual
planning) if through simulation it is found that all capacity and requirement can be fulfilled.
 The purchasing department can also utilize the outcome of long-term planning. They use
the information on the future requirement quantities to estimate future purchase orders. This
provides them with an opportunity to negotiate delivery schedules and contracts with vendors.
 Vendors also have an advantage from long-term planning results as they are sent a
preview of future estimated purchase orders and delivery schedules.
 Generally, Planned Independent Requirement (PIR) version can be either active or
inactive. For LTP planned independent version should be inactive as it is a simulative version.
Only active PIR version is being taken for operative planning (MRP).
 Existing master data can be used for LTP. But to have a different master data (BOM and
Routing) for LTP is also possible.
 If you want to delete the Long term planning data, then you need to delete the planning
scenario and you can re-run whole cycle again with new requirement again in another inactive
version.
 Long term planning data can also be utilized to transfer routing activity quantities to the
respective cost centers. Controlling department can calculate activity price calculation by
dividing the cost center budget value and activity quantity (calculated by LTP run) which is
used for standard cost calculation.

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1. Create the planning scenario by the transaction MS31.

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This will create the Planning file entries for the Planning scenario.

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The same could be view through MS21 for display of the Simulation Planning file entries. Compare
with MD21.
Now create the Forecast planning for 03 years.
Than 01 Years tentative planning and 03 month firmed planning.

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Now copy the requirement to 01 years tentative planning say years 2017
Make sure following things mentioned below:
1. Right demand version is selected in the right sequence
2. Never select target as Active.
3. Run first time in simulative mode to check the demand is being transfer or not.

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Now Remove the simulation mode and re-run the transaction MS64.

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Now check in MD63

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Now copying the 03 Month firmed planning from 01 years tentative planning.

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Now check in MD63
Now check the same in MS04 and MD04.

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Now run the MRP for the LTP scenario 007.
You can use MS01 for plant level and MS02 for Single material Multi-level or Product Group wise.

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Planned could be viewed through the Table PLAF.
For the Active MRP check through MD04.

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