Manufacturing & Quality
What is MRP Area?
An organizational unit for running MRP separately for a plant, storage location, or subcontractor.
MRP areas allow different planning parameters inside one plant. They are required in S/4HANA for some storage-location planning scenarios. They change how requirements are netted.
Related terms
Material Requirements Planning
Planning that calculates net requirements and creates planned orders or requisitions to cover demand on time.
Plant
A logistics organizational unit, such as a factory or distribution center, where materials are produced, stored, or procured.
Storage Location
A subdivision of a plant where stock is physically kept and tracked by quantity.
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