Demand Management
Demand Management in SAP PP captures and manages future demand—via Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs) and/or customer sales orders—that drives Material Requirements Planning (MRP). This topic covers PIR creation and consumption logic, planning strategies (make-to-stock, make-to-order, and mixed strategies), requirement types/classes configuration, and how these settings determine MRP behavior, availability checks, and production/procurement triggers across ECC and S/4HANA.
Overview
Demand Management in SAP PP captures and manages future demand—via Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs) and/or customer sales orders—that drives Material Requirements Planning (MRP). This topic covers PIR creation and consumption logic, planning strategies (make-to-stock, make-to-order, and mixed strategies), requirement types/classes configuration, and how these settings determine MRP behavior, availability checks, and production/procurement triggers across ECC and S/4HANA.
Lessons in this topic
- Consumption Logic: Linking Planned Independent Requirements to Sales OrdersA deep dive into how PIRs are consumed by incoming sales orders, the role of consumption periods and modes, and how consumption behavior differs across make-to-stock, make-to-order, and mixed planning strategies, including troubleshooting overconsumption and underconsumption issues.
- Configuring Planning Strategies, Requirement Types, and Consumption LogicLearn how planning strategies, requirement types, and requirement classes are configured and how consumption logic determines whether PIRs and sales orders are netted, stacked, or kept separate.
- Foundations of Demand Management: PIRs, Requirements, and Why They MatterUnderstand what Demand Management is, why Planned Independent Requirements (PIRs) exist, and how they feed MRP to trigger production or procurement before actual sales orders arrive.