Production Planning

Chapters in this level

1. Bill of materials, work center and routing in detail · What each object contains, and what SAP does with it.
2. Creating the bill of materials, routing and production version · The three objects that tell MRP what to take, how to do it and with which method.
3. Planning strategies and demand management · How do sales orders consume forecasts?
4. MRP in practice: net requirement and lot size · Reproduce the MRP calculation for one material and one period.
5. Reading MD04 over time · MD04 is a material's logbook: it tells the story of its stock, day after day.
6. Simulation: the order for 750 watches · Standard cost 80 CHF (materials 60 + activities 20). The actual assembly times exceed the standard: follow the variance through to settlement.
7. Scheduling and capacities · How long does an operation take, and can the work center absorb it?
8. Confirmations, backflush and mass processing · What the shop floor reports, and what SAP does automatically.
9. What an order costs: how costs flow in · Every shop-floor action debits the order; the finished product receipt credits it; the balance becomes work in process or a variance.
10. Repetitive, Kanban, make-to-order, process · Four alternatives to the classic production order.
11. Producing a variant · The BOM contains every possible part; the configuration picks the ones for the order.
12. Producing for a project · The project network expresses a requirement; MRP plans it in the project segment; the production order delivers into the project stock.