Manage Material Coverage
Application component: Fiori UI for Material Requirements Planning
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Supply Chain
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Material Requirements Planning (S/4)
Scope items: Make-to-Stock Production - Discrete Manufacturing|Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution|Demand-Driven Replenishment Planning and Execution|Production Integration - Component Consumption and Receipt in Warehouse|Production Capacity Evaluation|Material Requirements Planning
Description: With this app, you can resolve any coverage issues for your materials based on the settings you made in the Monitor Material Coverage app. This app shows the net requirements segments and individual customer and project segments, as well as direct production and direct procurement segments that exist for each material. To help you solve your shortages, the system can propose different solutions. You can simulate the solution to preview its effects and you can apply the solution that best resolves your issue. Note This app is the predecessor of the app Manage Material Coverage (F0251A), which you can use as an alternative. The new app provides an improved look-and-feel based on the Fiori elements framework as well as feature enhancements, for example, the selection of multiple materials or additional information and navigation options in the material overview table and quickviews. However, it does not yet fully cover all aspects of this app. For more information about the supported features of both apps, see Feature Comparison for Managing Material Coverage. Since this app provides detailed information and proposed solutions for specific materials or items, you first have to select which materials or items you want to manage. Therefore, no separate tile is delivered for this app. To access this app, you first have to start the Monitor Material Coverage 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 this app to analyze and can resolve your issues. If you save your personalized settings as a view tile, you can access this app directly from your home page. Note If you want to view the planning situation for one material only, you can also start the Manage Material Coverage app directly from the Check Material Coverage tile, which is also delivered by SAP. This app is contained in the business catalog Production Planning - MRP Cockpit (SAP_SCM_BC_MRPCOCKPIT). For more information about the business role templates, see the Fiori Apps Reference Library for your release. 
With the transactional app Manage Material Coverage, you can check the coverage of your materials based on the settings you made in the Monitor Material Shortages app. To help you solve your shortages, 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 the materials you selectedView 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 material  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 informationDisplay, 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 a shortage 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 changesOpen the delivery schedule for materials with scheduling agreements and solve the shortage by creating or changing schedule lines or creating releasesOpen a list of goods movements for a material from the delivery schedule and view additional material informationContact your vendors to request changes to purchase orders and stock transport ordersNavigate to the Manage Change Requests app to place and manage your requestsNavigate to the Monitor Material Coverage app to get an overview of your materialsNavigate to other apps to access further information or change material data Note The proposed changes are rated according to the degree at which they will resolve the issue. While a solution with a three-star rating will completely resolve the issue, a solution with two stars will resolve it only partially, for example, by providing a required material quantity with a small delay. If the best solution is to change a purchase order or stock transfer order, you can contact your vendor or the other plant to request the change.The system can only propose solutions for externally procured materials, but not for materials produced in-house or materials required for direct procurement. In addition, scheduling agreements are not supported by the proposed solutions. Instead, you have to manually change a schedule line or create a new one. In addition, the app supports the following technical feature and option:   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| Replenishment Specialist - Distribution Center (Retail)
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.

Replenishment Specialist - Distribution Center (Retail) : 
Is responsible for the automated replenishment of retail distribution centers with merchandise. Reviews calculated quantities and delivery schedules. Monitors and analyzes service levels, stock development and out of stock situations.