Monitor 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 monitor the uncovered requirements originating from sales orders and stock transport orders in a selected area of responsibility. You can use the default filter Time till Requirement Date to determine the period in which you want to check uncovered external requirements. Only one shortage definition is available for calculating uncovered requirements and is displayed for information purposes. This app provides you with the information that you need to be able to react to the shortage situation meaning that you can fulfill your customers' demands on time. From this app, you can directly navigate to the Manage External Requirements app to view details of the selected delayed items and check different solutions. (Applicable for SAP S/4HANA for fashion and vertical business ) Use this app for segmented material and article. The requirement, stock segments with segmentation rules are considered for shortage calculations.Note In this context, you cannot navigate to Manage External Requirements app, as it is not supported for segmented materials and articles. This app is available for the following role: SAP_BR_PRODN_PLNR (Production Planner) 
With the transactional app Monitor External Requirements you can monitor the uncovered requirements originating from sales orders and stock transport orders in a selected area of responsibility. You can specify a shortage definition and a time horizon to determine which uncovered external requirements you want to check.
Key features:  Select an area of responsibilityNarrow down the scope of the requirements list by using the default filter Time till Requirement Date as well as other filtersView a table of sales orders and stock transport orders according to the selected shortage definition as well as other selection criteriaOpen a quickview for the materialOpen quickviews for the affected ordersView an overview of the quantities needed for each requirementPersonalize the table by choosing which table columns are shown and how table entries are sortedTailor the app to your needs and save the combination of shortage definition and filters as a viewSave your personalized views as tiles on your home page from which you can access this Monitor External Requirements app or directly navigate to the respective Manage External Requirements appView details of selected materials and check different solutions on the Manage External Requirements app In addition, the app supports the following technical feature and option: 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. 
Business roles: Production Planner| Material Planner - External Procurement
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.

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.