What is Planned Independent Requirement (PIR)? Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) are used to perform Demand Management functions. A Planned Independent Requirement contains one planned quantity and one date for a material, or one planned quantity split over time according to dates. PIR version “00” has an active indicator, which specifies that requirements would be considered in Material Requirement Planning (MRP). If you want to maintain a number of versions of planned independent requirements, but do not want to include all versions in the material requirement planning run, you can set some versions to active and others to inactive, which could be used for simulations in Long term Planning. PIR’s are associated with requirement type which is driven from planning strategies in the material master, which determines methods of planning – Make to Stock or Make to Order. PIR’s are displayed in stock requirement list so that Planner can see and plan the production based on it. P...