MRP controller is the person in charge of the MRP run for the materials. It is still a further division on your MRP. This is work load related. You can have one MRP controller for materials with different MRP groups.
On your MRP group, you will define the parameters for the MRP run. These parameters are calculated in accordance with the settings on your material master MRP views.
Available stock =
Plant stock - safety stock +
receipts of (purchasing orders + purchasing agreements + production orders)
- required quantity.
This means that all the requirements are calculated in
the bases of your material master settings and your MRP group settings.
What if nothing happens when you run MRP?
The reasons could be :-
- You have purchase requisitions that are delayed but the delivery time has not been updated on the system.
- The settings on your material MRP screens are not correct,
i.e. your material have not yet
entered the re-order point level.
- Your requirements have not been taken in account when
running MRP.
Assuming that everything is well and the requirement has been calculated, go to transaction code MD04 and verify that the different requirements are reflected in the MRP list and also if there is any purchase requisition scheduled by the system. Verify also if there is any other delivery schedule that will exceed the actual requirements.
If the purchasing requisition is there, the only thing that you have to troubleshoot is the message to tell you that the purchasing requirement was calculated.
If the requirement is not there, re-visit your material master and check your settings for the MRP group.
What is the real meaning and usage of the followings
configured in PP:
1. MRP Controller;
2. Schedule margin key;
3. MRP group;
4. MRP profile.
1. MRP Controller
This will help you to group the material for some controlling
purpose. You can run mrp by mrp controller.
you can do evaluation by mrp controller. This will help
us if have different people in one organisation involved in purchasing.
2. Schedule margin key
This will help you to determine the floats. In case if you have production order you can see the impact of floats
3. MRP group
This will help you for the material to reac in tems of the settings made relavant to each group. To know more details on the group you can chek the tcode oppr.
4. MRP profile
We can have some prefixed datas in the profile and and we can enter teh profile for diff material so the values will copied as defaulted in the profile.
