Manage External Requirements
Application component: Fiori UI for Material Requirements Planning
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Manufacturing
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Production Execution (S/4)
Description: With this app, you can check your uncovered and delayed items required for sales orders and stock transport orders based on the settings you made in the Monitor External Requirements app. To help you cover these requirements and fulfill the external orders, the system proposes different solutions. You can simulate the solution to preview its effects and you can apply the solution that best solves your issue. Since this Manage app provides detailed information and proposed solutions for specific items, you first have to select which items you want to manage. Therefore, no separate tile is delivered for this Manage app. To access the Manage External Requirements app, you first have to start the Monitor External Requirements app and make various settings to display only those items you want to monitor. After selecting one or more items in the list, you can navigate to the Manage app where you can solve your issues. If you save your personalized settings as a view tile, you can access this Manage app directly from your home page. This app is available for the following role: SAP_BR_PRODN_PLNR (Production Planner) 
With the transactional app Manage External Requirements, you can check your uncovered and delayed items based on the settings you made in the Monitor External Requirements app. To help you cover your external requirements, the system proposes different solutions. You can simulate the solution to preview its effects and you can apply the solution that best solves your issue.
Key features:  View a list of your uncovered and late external requirementsView details of the stock/requirements situation as a table or as a chartChoose a different shortage definition to check how the stock/requirements situation changes for the selected item  Create purchase requisitions, stock transport requisitions, planned orders, or schedule lines of scheduling agreements   Perform the rescheduling check and, depending on the execution message, execute different actions View an aggregated table in which the same MRP elements for the same day are aggregated into one lineView additional material informationView additional information about the order itemDisplay, edit, and enter notes for the materialClick on an MRP element link to open a quickview with further details  Hand over, edit, convert, or delete MRP elements if applicable Perform the MRP run at material levelSelect an uncovered item to check the different solutions proposed by the systemPreview the effects of the proposed solutions as a table or as a chartChoose a solution to apply the changesContact your vendors to request changes to purchase orders and stock transport ordersView a list of open change requests for a material in a popupNavigate to the Manage Change Requests app to place and manage your requestsNavigate to the Monitor External Requirements app to get an overview of the missing itemsNavigate to other apps to access further information or change material data In addition, the app supports the following technical features and options: If the long material number has been activated in your back-end system, it is automatically displayed in the Material field in this SAP Fiori app. For more information, see Extended Material Number in SAP Fiori Apps. If the order unit of a material is different from its base unit of measure (base UoM), you can change the quantity of purchase orders and requisitions in the order unit. The system immediately shows you the quantity in the base UoM as well. You can access the popups for changing dates and quantities from the respective quickviews and when applying solutions. 
Business roles: Production Planner| Material Planner - External Procurement
Material Planner - External Procurement: (is an add-on role to the Material Planner)
Ensures the availability of materials for production supply plans and monitors and adjusts material supplies procured externally. Collaborates internally with production planners and externally with suppliers.

Production Planner : 
Plans, monitors and adjusts material supplies produced internally and ensures material availability for sales order fulfillment and production supply. Collaborates internally with customer care and other production planners.