In this section you determine the conversion for your coverage strategy.

You assign the requirements

categories to the stock categories. This assignment is MRP-relevant.

Prerequisites

In Maintain coverage strategies you must define your coverage strategy as well as the assignment of the
valid categories to this coverage strategy.

Standard settings

1. Coverage strategies

You select the coverage strategy for which you want to make the following assignments. When maintaining
tables, the system automatically uses the selected coverage strategy. The entered values can be displayed for
one coverage strategy at a time.

If you copy or delete coverage strategies, it affects all subsequent tables. If you delete your coverage strategy,
all valid categories and their conversion strategies are also deleted. But if you copy a coverage strategy to
another plant or another coverage strategy, all dependent settings are copied as well.

2. MRP: Requirements/stock assignment

In this table you specify how the requirements categories are calculated with the stock categories during the
planning run. For this both the available stock and the procurement proposals are considered. If you want to
calculate several stock categories with certain requirements categories you must put them in a valid sequence.
The sequential number for equal categories is a sequential number with which you can specify an assignment
sequence.

In addition, you can control the assignment of the requirements categories to the stock categories during the
planning run by using the MRP module. Compare Define MRP modules. If you do not maintain a module, the
system automatically carries out FIFO. The MRP level additionally prioritizes the defined modules.

By using the fixed indicator the result of the availability check in reference to the requirements category is fixed
in the sales order. If you want to use this function, you must maintain an assignment sequence for the
requirements and stock categories in the above mentioned table. You then replace the requirements category
with a fixed requirements category and assign it to a stock category. You can maintain this assignment only
once in the table. In the meantime the system finds the fixed assignment for the availability check in the
customer master by using the requirements category and the fixed indicator. The MRP assigns the fixed
requirements category to its stock category.

3. Dependent requirements

Here you define, how the categories are calculated during the BOM explosion. The stock category describes
here the category of the finished product that is determined either by the existing stock or by a planned order.
The requirements category flags the category of the dependent requirement of the components.

For example, a customer orders a coat in category 001A. For the production of this coat you only use
components, e.g. fabric, thread, and buttons, in category 002B.

Within this table you make entries for processes that are valid across multiple plants. These are processes the
Standard describes as special procurement.

4. Requirement for stock conversion

Here you define the assignment of categories if the requirement of a certain category cannot be fulfilled by the
available stock or by procurement proposals. In that case the system creates planned orders or purchase
requisitions during the MRP, depending on the procurement type of the material.

5. Consumption of planned independent requirements

In this table you define which categories of planned independent requirements are consumed by which
requirements categories in the sales order.

Further notes

* are placeholders and indicate a 1:1 assignment of a requirements category to a certain stock category. For
example, you have created requirements category 001* and stock category 001*. For a requirement in category
001B the system searches stock in category 001B.