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MODULE PP

Production Planning

PP (Production Planning) answers three questions: what to produce and how much (planning), when and on which resources (scheduling and capacities), and how to track actual production (execution, confirmations, costs). It turns a sales demand into concrete orders for the shop floor and for purchasing.

Audience
Planners, schedulers, process engineers, shop floor supervisors, PP, MM or CO consultants.
Prerequisites
Level 1: none. Levels 2 and 3: MM basics (material, stock, purchasing).
Duration
5 days (1 + 2.5 + 1.5)
35 h · day-by-day schedule
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Chapters in this level

  1. Configuring master data · SPRO › Production › Basic Data.
  2. Configuring MRP · Activate planning, then refine per plant, MRP group and material.
  3. Configuring production orders · The order type and its order-type-dependent parameters drive the whole cycle.
  4. Customizing variant configuration · Nine steps, in order, from characteristic to test.
  5. Dependencies in detail · Four types of rules, a precise evaluation order, and a trace to understand what SAP decided.
  6. Multi-level configuration and order BOM · When a component is itself configurable, when a variant is stocked, and when an order has its own BOM.
  7. Production costs and variance analysis · Why the order costs more than planned, and where the difference goes.
  8. S/4HANA: MRP Live, PP/DS, DDMRP · What changes for planning.
  9. Tables and troubleshooting · The errors you will meet in PP support.
Module complete
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