In addition to interactive planning with, for example, the Monitor Material Coverage app, you can also schedule regular automatic planning runs.
The following interactive demo shows how to schedule MRP runs.
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When scheduling a planning run, we've seen that we can define the scope of the planning run (one or more plants, one or more materials, one or more MRP controllers, and so on).
For this defined scope, the system checks in the background whether each material to be planned is contained in the so-called planning file.
The planning file contains a list of all materials that are relevant to the planning run.
As soon as a material master record is created with MRP data and a valid MRP type, this material is automatically included in the planning file. Then, as soon as a planning-relevant activity occurs for this material (for example, a goods movement or the creation of a new purchase order), an indicator is automatically updated in the planning file to indicate that the material is relevant for a new planning run.
Checking the planning file is actually the first step in the planning run.