The planning strategy "Planning with planning material" is particularly useful if you have several finished products with the same main assemblies.
Here, you define a planning material which contains the common assembly and its BOMs.
The planning run is carried out for the planning material which triggers the production and procurement of the planning material's components.
The sales order for a finished product which refers to the planning material reduces the planned independent requirements of the planning material and simultaneously triggers final assembly.
When processing the sales order, you can check whether the planned independent requirements quantities cover the demand (that is, the availability check as a check against the planned independent requirements).
In the material master record of the planning material, you must enter strategy 60, the consumption mode and the consumption periods. In the material master records which refer to the planning material, you must enter the planning material as a reference and strategy 60. The consumption periods are calculated starting from the planned independent requirements of the planning material.