Integration
•Operative data provides the basis for long-term planning: material master, BOMs, routings and work centers. Therefore, there is no need to create new operative data.
•The planning and evaluation procedures in long-term planning are separate from the operative planning and evaluation procedures. Separate tools are available for long-term planning, although these tools are basically the same ones as you also use in operative planning. This means the effort involved in getting used to new functions is kept to a minimum.
•The materials you want to plan in long-term planning must have already been planned in operative MRP.
•When the long-term planning run is complete, you can firm the planned orders in a planning scenario and transfer them to operative MRP.
•Long-term planning is integrated with the following components: