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The planning method appropriate for spares demand may be MPS planning or MRP planning. Use MPS planning if the item has spares demand and still requires personal control. The MPS planning process plans the spares demand, and you can manually adjust the quantities/dates of the resulting master schedule entries before you use the master schedule for your material requirements plan.

   To manually include spares demand in the master schedule:

• Follow the procedure for defining a master schedule manually. See: Defining Schedule Entries Manually.

   To forecast spares demand and load results into the master schedule:

• Follow the procedure for loading a master schedule from a forecast. See: Loading a Master Schedule From an Internal Source.