Step up your SAP PP game! Learn how to configure SAP ERP Production Planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing and master BOM status definitions, process message characteristics, and master data. Dive into SAP PP workflows and use Process Management, release production orders, and create planning tables. Covering everything from S&OP and MRP to SAP Demand Management and the Early Warning System, this book will help you get your production process to maximum efficiency!ConfigurationGet step-by-step instructions for configuring SAP PP, from master data shared by all manufacturing types to specific settings and control keys for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing.Workflow ToolsLearn to use sales and operations planning, material requirements planning, SAP Demand Management, and long-term planning throughout your production workflow.Reporting and OptimizationGet more out of your production system with capacity requirements planning, co-products, by-products, and more. Then evaluate and monitor your system using built-in reports and the Early Warning System.Highlights:Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing ConfigurationXStepsSales and operations planning (S&OP)Material requirements planning (MRP)SAP Demand ManagementLong-term planning (LTP)Special procurement typesCapacity requirements planning (CRP)Digital signaturesEarly Warning System (EWS)

Configure master data, manufacturing profiles, work centers, and more

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Jawad Akhtar is an SAP logistics and supply chain management expert with a focus on business sales and delivery. He earned his chemical engineering degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology in the United States. He has 20 years of professional experience, 14 of which have been spent working with SAP systems. He has experience working on several large-scale, end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles, including rollouts. He works with SAP clients to help them identify root causes of business issues and address those with the appropriate SAP products and change management strategies. He now focuses on next-generation SAP products such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP IBP, SAP Ariba, and SAP Hybris. Akhtar is also a technical advisor to SAPexperts, an ASUG speaker, and a contributor to SearchSAP, where his "Ask the Expert" column shares real-life lessons and best practices gleaned from SAP implementations, ways to avoid common project pitfalls, and features of various SAP products that solve key business issues.

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Run your SAP PP system like a finely tuned machine! Learn how to configure SAP ERP Production Planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing and master BOM status definitions, process message characteristics, and master data. Dive into SAP PP workflows and use Process Management, release production orders, and create planning tables. Covering everything from S&OP and MRP to SAP Demand Management and the Early Warning System, this book will help you get your production process to maximum efficiency!

Highlights include:
-Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing
-Configuration
-XSteps
-Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
-Material requirements planning (MRP)
-SAP Demand Management
-Long-term planning (LTP)
-Special procurement types
-Capacity requirements planning (CRP)
-Digital signatures
-Early Warning System (EWS)

Highlights:

• Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing
• Configuration
• XSteps
• Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
• Material requirements planning (MRP)
• SAP Demand Management
• Long-term planning (LTP)
• Special procurement types
• Capacity requirements planning (CRP)
• Digital signatures
• Early Warning System (EWS)

Inhalt
... Acknowledgments ... 25

1 ... Production Planning Core Concepts ... 27

1 ... Introduction ... 29

... Goals of This Book ... 29

... Target Audience ... 30

... Structure and Content ... 31

... Organizational Structures in SAP ERP ... 35

... Breaking Down the Structure into Units ... 35

... Production Planning in SAP ERP ... 44

... Product Costing ... 59

... SAP Calendar ... 61

... Summary ... 66

... Configuration Specifics for Manufacturing Types ... 67

... Configuration Basics of Discrete Manufacturing ... 69

3.1 ... Material Master ... 70

3.2 ... Bill of Materials ... 72

3.3 ... Work Center ... 78

3.4 ... Routing ... 87

3.5 ... Production Order Creation ... 89

3.6 ... Order Type-Dependent Plant Parameters ... 94

3.7 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 99

3.8 ... Default Values for the Generation of Operations ... 101

3.9 ... Availability Check ... 102

3.10 ... Stock and Batch Determination ... 108

3.11 ... Scheduling ... 108

3.12 ... Reduction Strategy ... 114

3.13 ... Confirmation ... 115

3.14 ... Reason for Variances ... 124

3.15 ... Trigger Points ... 125

3.16 ... Define Print Control ... 126

3.17 ... Background Jobs ... 127

3.18 ... Process Integration ... 128

3.19 ... Summary ... 128

... Configuration Basics of Process Manufacturing ... 129

4.1 ... Master Data in Process Industries ... 130

4.2 ... Order Type-Dependent Parameters ... 134

4.3 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 136

4.4 ... Process Management ... 138

4.5 ... Process Messages ... 143

4.6 ... Process Instruction Category ... 150

4.7 ... Control Recipe/Process Instruction Sheets ... 164

4.8 ... Background Jobs ... 169

4.9 ... Process Management Configuration: At a Glance ... 171

4.10 ... Process Management: Configuration and Implementation Roadmap ... 172

4.11 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 174

4.12 ... Summary ... 177

... Configuration Basics of Repetitive Manufacturing ... 179

5.1 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Profile ... 180

5.2 ... Scheduling Planned Orders ... 192

5.3 ... Display ... 193

5.4 ... Material Staging ... 195

5.5 ... Global Settings for Confirmation and the Logistics Information System ... 196

5.6 ... Operational Methods Sheet ... 197

5.7 ... Summary ... 198

3 ... Production Planning Workflow by Production Type ... 199

... Production Planning for Discrete Manufacturing ... 201

6.1 ... Process Overview ... 202

6.2 ... Master Data ... 203

6.3 ... Production Order Management ... 243

6.4 ... Release Production Order ... 265

6.5 ... Printing ... 268

6.6 ... Material Withdrawal ... 271

6.7 ... Confirmation ... 278

6.8 ... Goods Receipt ... 285

6.9 ... Postprocessing ... 288

6.10 ... Settlement and Completion ... 292

6.11 ... Production Order Batch Traceability Using Work in Process Batches ... 293

6.12 ... Additional Functions and Information Systems ... 304

6.13 ... Summary ... 309

... Production Planning for Process Industries ... 311

7.1 ... Process Manufacturing Overview ... 312

7.2 ... Master Data in Process Manufacturing ... 314

7.3 ... Process Management ... 327

7.4 ... Process Order Execution ... 341

7.5 ... Process Management in Action ... 343

7.6 ... Execution Steps (XSteps) ... 354

7.7 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 367

7.8 ... Process Messages Evaluation ... 368

7.9 ... Miscellaneous Cross-Manufacturing Topics ... 370

7.10 ... Summary ... 371

... Production Planning for Repetitive Manufacturing ... 373

8.1 ... Overview ... 374

8.2 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Master Data ... 377
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