Configure and use SAP S/4HANA for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing! Walk through every aspect of production planning, from defining work centers and creating control recipes to releasing process orders and scrapping materials. Then dive into batch management, S&OP, DDMRP, pMRP, production engineering and operations, and more. This comprehensive guide is full of industry examples to help you maximize your production planning!

1) Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing
2) Batch management
3) Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
4) Demand management
5) Demand-driven replenishment (DDR)
6) Material requirements planning (MRP)
7) Predictive material and resource planning (pMRP)
8) Capacity requirements planning
9) Production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS)
10) Production engineering and operations
11) Kanban
12) Reporting and analysis

((Third edition, updated and revised))

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
... Acknowledgments ... 27

... Preface ... 29

... Goals of This Book ... 29

... Target Audience ... 30

... Structure and Content ... 31

PART I ... Core Production Planning Concepts ... 35

1 ... Introduction to Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA ... 37

1.1 ... Production Planning and Control ... 37

1.2 ... Comparison Table of Production Types ... 50

1.3 ... Production Planning Features in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA: A Comparison ... 54

1.4 ... SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain ... 56

1.5 ... Summary ... 58

2 ... Organizational Structure in SAP S/4HANA ... 59

2.1 ... Breaking Down the Structure into Units ... 59

2.2 ... SAP Calendar ... 68

2.3 ... Summary ... 71

PART II ... Production Planning Configuration ... 73

3 ... Discrete Manufacturing Configuration ... 75

3.1 ... Material Master ... 76

3.2 ... Bill of Materials ... 77

3.3 ... Work Center ... 82

3.4 ... Routing ... 93

3.5 ... Production Order Configuration ... 94

3.6 ... Order TypeDependent Plant Parameters ... 99

3.7 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 103

3.8 ... Default Values for the Generation of Operations ... 105

3.9 ... Availability Check ... 106

3.10 ... Scheduling ... 111

3.11 ... Reduction Strategy ... 115

3.12 ... Confirmation ... 116

3.13 ... Reasons for Variances ... 124

3.14 ... Trigger Points ... 125

3.15 ... Defining Print Control ... 125

3.16 ... Background Jobs ... 126

3.17 ... Summary ... 127

4 ... Process Manufacturing Configuration ... 129

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

4.2 ... Order TypeDependent Parameters ... 133

4.3 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 136

4.4 ... Process Management ... 137

4.5 ... Process Messages ... 141

4.6 ... Process Instruction Categories ... 147

4.7 ... Control Recipe/Process Instruction Sheets ... 162

4.8 ... Background Jobs ... 166

4.9 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 168

4.10 ... Summary ... 170

5 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Configuration ... 171

5.1 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Profile ... 172

5.2 ... Scheduling Planned Orders ... 183

5.3 ... Display ... 184

5.4 ... Material Staging ... 186

5.5 ... Global Settings for Confirmation and the Logistics Information System ... 187

5.6 ... Operational Methods Sheet ... 188

5.7 ... Summary ... 189

PART III ... Production Planning Workflows ... 191

6 ... Production Planning for Discrete Manufacturing ... 193

6.1 ... Process Overview ... 194

6.2 ... Master Data ... 195

6.3 ... Production Order Management ... 230

6.4 ... Releasing Production Orders ... 248

6.5 ... Printing ... 251

6.6 ... Material Withdrawal ... 253

6.7 ... Confirmation ... 260

6.8 ... Goods Receipt ... 266

6.9 ... Postprocessing ... 268

6.10 ... Settlement and Completion ... 271

6.11 ... Additional Functions and Information Systems ... 272

6.12 ... Summary ... 276

7 ... Production Planning for Process Manufacturing ... 277

7.1 ... Process Manufacturing Overview ... 278

7.2 ... Master Data in Process Manufacturing ... 279

7.3 ... Characteristics ... 288

7.4 ... Process Management ... 292

7.5 ... Process Order Execution ... 306

7.6 ... Process Management in Action ... 307

7.7 ... Execution Steps ... 317

7.8 ... Process Message Evaluation ... 329

7.9 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 330

7.10 ... Resources Network ... 331

7.11 ... Summary ... 335

8 ... Production Planning for Repetitive Manufacturing ... 337

8.1 ... Overview ... 338

8.2 ... Master Data ... 341

8.3 ... Material Requirements Planning in Repetitive Manufacturing ... 358

8.4 ... Planning Table ... 361

8.5 ... Material Staging ... 371

8.6 ... Production List ... 374

8.7 ... Confirmation ... 375

8.8 ... Reversals and Scrap ... 384

8.9 ... Costing Activities (Cost Object Controlling) ... 389

8.10 ... Heijunka ... 390

8.11 ... Reporting ... 392

8.12 ... Summary ... 393

PART IV ... Production Planning Tools ... 395

9 ... Kanban ... 397

9.1 ... Kanban Overview ... 398

9.2 ... Push-Pull Principle ... 400

9.3 ... Kanban Replenishment Strategies ... 402

9.4 ... Configuring Kanban ... 404

9.5 ... Setting Up Kanban Master Data ... 417

9.6 ... Replenishment with Kanban ... 421

9.7 ... Evaluating and Reporting Kanban ... 449

9.8 ... Summary ... 455

10 ... Batch Management ... 457

10.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 457

10.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 459

10.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 463

10.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 468

10.5 ... Batch Determination ... 474

10.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 488

10.7 ... Active Ingredient Management ... 495

10.8 ... Batch Derivation ... 518

10.9 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 529

10.10 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 540

10.11 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 542

10.12 ... Summary ... 544

11 ... Sales and Operations Planning ... 545

11.1 ... Standard Sales and Operations Planning ... 546

11.2 ... Flexible Planning ... 564

11.3 ... Version Management ... 585

11.4 ... Forecasting ... 587

11.5 ... Rou…