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Author's profile photo Caetano Almeida

S/4HANA 2020: Automatic assignment of Storage Location MRP Area to Material Master

As you probably already know, SAP S/4HANA introduced a simplification for the storage location planning scenario and it is now a requirement to use MRP Areas if you need to plan a storage location separately or to exclude it from MRP. (if you are not aware of this simplification, check this blog)

With this simplification in place, SAP is trying to bring new features to improve the S/4HANA usability, such as the improvements in MD04 delivered in MD04 (see details here)

SAP S/4HANA 2020 brought a new feature that will simplify the master data maintenance for materials with MRP Areas. In ECC, it was possible to define a default value for the storage location MRP indicator in the customizing transaction OMIR, therefore, whenever a storage location was extended for MRP, it would be automatically excluded from MRP or planned separately.

Now, in S/4HANA 2020, it is possible to automatically assign a storage location MRP Area to a material when extending this storage location to a material, and have default values for the MRP fields in the MRP area. This feature allows a storage location to be automatically excluded from MRP or planned separately whenever it is extended for a material. So let’s check how this feature can be enabled in the system.

The first step is to create an MRP Area Profile in customizing and the following picture shows the IMG activity path to this customizing activity.

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MRP Area Profile Customizing

 

In the MRP Area Profile we will define default values for the MRP fields under the MRP Area. These values will be used when extending the storage location assigned to the storage location to the material master, if the feature is active for the MRP Area. By setting the flag Copy Field, the value defined at the material master at plant level will be copied to the MRP Area.

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MRP Area Profile

 

After the profile creation, we need to check the flag Assign Materials Automatically and assign the profile to the MRP Area in the MRP Area customizing (transaction OMIZ).

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MRP Area Customizing

 

With this setting in place, whenever we extend storage location 0004 (which is the storage location assigned to the MRP Area) to a new material, it will automatically create the assignment to the MRP Area, with the field values proposed on the profile. The following figure shows the MRP Area that was automatically assigned to a material. Note that the MRP Area will be created in background, once we save the material, so we will not see when extending the storage location in MM01.

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MRP Area

 

This feature is one more step to streamline the adoption of MRP Areas in S/4HANA and I hope you can leverage this new feature to simplify the master data maintenance in your system.

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      Author's profile photo Farid Azzi
      Farid Azzi

      Hi Caetano,

       

      Thank  you for this useful blog.

       

      regards.

      Farid.

      Author's profile photo Mudiam Amresh Reddy
      Mudiam Amresh Reddy

      Hi Caetano,

       

      Thank you for this useful information.

      Regards

      Reddy Mudiam

      Author's profile photo Prasath Elumalai
      Prasath Elumalai

      Hi Ceatano,

      As per blog we can see that MRP area can be assigned automatically with PD MRP type with this we can plan it separately but when we want exclude the storage location from MRP what could be customization to be done.

      Best regards

      Prasath E

      Author's profile photo Caetano Almeida
      Caetano Almeida
      Blog Post Author

      Hello

      You can set MRP type ND.

      Regards,

      Caetano

      Author's profile photo venu gopal
      venu gopal

      Nice Blog..

      Author's profile photo Trang Nguyen Thi Quynh
      Trang Nguyen Thi Quynh

      Hi Caetano,

      I create planned independent requirements (MD61) for FERT at MRP area and I want run MRP for raw material. I assigned production storage location field in MRP area for raw material but system couldn't check production storage location in MRP area. How to fix issue?

      Thanks and best regards,

      Trang Nguyen'

       

      Author's profile photo Caetano Almeida
      Caetano Almeida
      Blog Post Author

      Hello

      Would you please open a separated question for your issue? The SAP Communities guidelines do not recommend troubleshooting issues in blog comments.

      Regards,
      Caetano

      Author's profile photo Trang Nguyen Thi Quynh
      Trang Nguyen Thi Quynh

      Sorry Caetano,

      I opened question for my issue. I hope you will help me answer this question.

      This link:

      https://answers.sap.com/questions/13453253/assignment-of-production-storage-location-at-mrp-a.html

      Thanks and best regards,

      Trang Nguyen

      Author's profile photo Yigit Yucel
      Yigit Yucel

      Hello Caetano,

       

      Assign Assign Materials Automatically is not showing up. ( Note that we are using the latest upgrade). Could you please help?

      mrp

      Author's profile photo Yigit Yucel
      Yigit Yucel

      I just figured it out, if anyone has any issue with this you need to do this from spro not from omiz.

       

       

      Author's profile photo Caetano Almeida
      Caetano Almeida
      Blog Post Author

      Hello Yigit,

      You can use transaction OMIZA, which was recently delivered for the storage location MRP Area maintenance.

      Regards,
      Caetano

      Author's profile photo Graham Harrison
      Graham Harrison

      Thanks for sharing

      Author's profile photo Caetano Almeida
      Caetano Almeida
      Blog Post Author

      You are welcome Graham!

      Author's profile photo Yuri Almeida
      Yuri Almeida

      Hi Caetano.

      Thanks for sharing. Do you know if this feature will be available for article master (Retail/Fashion)?

      Best regards,

      Yuri

      Author's profile photo Ricardo Barros
      Ricardo Barros

      Hi Caetano,

      Thanks for your post is very helpful.

      I replicated the configuration, but when I extend a material, the MDMA table not updating and the MRP area neither. It is necessary maintain the program RMMDDIBE?

      Kind Regards,

      Author's profile photo Caetano Almeida
      Caetano Almeida
      Blog Post Author

      It should be working. Make sure that you set the flag Assign Materials Automatically and test again. If the issue persists, you can open an incident to SAP.

      Author's profile photo Witold Prawecki
      Witold Prawecki

      H Caetano,

      Is there possibility to assign storage location MRP Area automatically in S4Hana 1909 for new materials ? I would like to exclude new materials from MRP in specific storage locations.

      I am thinking about running RMMDDIBE02 periodically via job, but job doesn't know exact material numbers, that were created since last run of RMMDDIBE02. If I run RMMDDIBE02 for wide range, then report selects also existing materials and then reports in log it as errors.

      Is there a better way to assign storage location MRP Area automatically for new materials before S4Hana 2020 ?

      Best regards

      WP

      Author's profile photo David Medlik
      David Medlik

      Hello Caetano,

       

      very nice blog post.

      i would have one question - do you know if there is some report which will extend materials which were extended to storage location before the storage location was added to MRP area?

      In report RMMDDIBE you need to explicitely define the materials.

       

      Regards

      D. Medlík