Upload of Planned Independent Requirements made easy

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You only need to go through the forums on SDN to realise that there are people out there that actually write programs or develop LSMW’s to upload Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) into SAP. Whilst I am sure that there are many valid reasons for wanting to develop your own upload programs, it is a shame to do so especially in light of the fact that SAP offers standard methods for you to do this. I know of at least two:

• You can use the BAPI BAPI_REQUIREMENTS_CREATE. This BAPI is RFC enabled so it is a good candidate if you are using an external application to perform your forecast and want to replicate them in SAP by making a remote function call.
• Another option is to use the standard upload program RM60IN01 – which is a direct input program that reads a formatted file to create your PIRs in SAP’s demand management (the RM60IN01 program can also be used in LSMW in concert wth object 0180).

In this post, I shall explore the second option. The aim of this is to have PIR figures uploaded in SAP’s demand management – i.e data populated in the table below, such that it can be taken into account by the MRP run (or not if you do not set the active indicator):

To illustrate this scenario, I’ll work through a simple case but it should give you all the tools you need to do further exploration on your own. So I will show you here how you can upload PIR quantities for multiple schedule lines for multiples materials – all in one go. Also we will want for these requirements to be active such that they are immediately taken into account during the next MRP run.

To start of let’s try and execute the program to see how it presents itself. Using transaction SE38, execute the program RM60IN01.

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