Long-Term Planning functionality (LTP) in S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition

[SAPSupport]

What is the option for simulating MRP to analyze the results for capacity situation in S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition?

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[SAPSupport · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In S/4HANA Cloud, you can use the Predictive Material and Resource Planning (pMRP). pMRP is a brand new functionality by SAP. It helps you to identify potential capacity issues and to evaluate possible solutions as early as possible based on a simplified requirements plan using a simplified material requirements algorithm. As a result of the simulation, production planners are prepared to take decisions on changed conditions, for example with regard to requirement planning, resource plans, preproduction, or make-or-buy decisions.

For more details, please take a look at the following Links:

• SAP Help - Predictive Material and Resource Planning (pMRP)
• Community Blog - pMRP - Predictive Material and Resource Planning in SAP S/4HANA : Step by Step execution

Best regards.

[DominikTylczyn · Accepted solution]

Hello @SAPSupport 

That is a really bold statement to put pMRP and long term planning and very misleading.

pMRP lacks several functionalities that long term planning provides:

• purchasing budging - with long term planning you can copy the planning results of raw (purchased) materials to Purchasing Information System - https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP/a0d3efbac8b14fc89b29bf47a1677c86/c173b6535fe6b74ce10000000a174cb4.... Purchasing Information System allows not only for the planning results analysis, but it also gathers actual data, so you can compare plan vs actual.
• stock levels planning - long term planning results can be copied to Inventory Control https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP/a0d3efbac8b14fc89b29bf47a1677c86/c473b6535fe6b74ce10000000a174cb4.... Similarly to PURCHIS, Inventory Control lets you analyze the planning results, but it also gathers actual inventory data, providing for plan vs actual tracking
• integration with CO - long term planning results can be transferred to CO as activity type requirements https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP/a0d3efbac8b14fc89b29bf47a1677c86/c773b6535fe6b74ce10000000a174cb4.... That is essential to know how much effort (man hours, machine hours) you need to realize your long term planning. Once you know activity type requirements you can calculate activity rates, that are essential to product cost calculation

Those features are not there in pMRP - can you export pMRP planning results of various scenarios to a S/4HANA standard planning tool and make plan vs actual comparisons there? As far as I know, pMRP is simply not integrated with purchasing planning, stock planning or Controlling. 

My understanding is that pMRP is more of a operational level planning tool, not master planning one. The way I see it S/4HANA lacks descent long term/master planning tools as those functions are transferred to IBP.

One more point, long term planning is included in the basic license. Is pMRP also comprised in the basic S/4HANA license or is it chargable separately?

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski