Name: Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA
Brand: SAP
SKU: BOOK-SAPPRESS-EBOOK-2025-9781493226740

Language

🇺🇸 English

Publisher SAP PRESS

Year / Edition 2025 / 3

Pages 1084

Authors Jawad Akhtar

Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA

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!

Implement production planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing with SAP S/4HANA
Perform batch management, MRP, S&OP, and more
Analyze your production data with standard analytics and SAP Fiori apps

You'll learn about:

Configuration:
Set up the master data your system needs to run its production planning processes for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing. Learn how to define BOM usage, availability checks, plants, and more.
Business Processes:
Master your production planning tools! Walk through familiar functionality like batch management, S&OP, demand management, and MRP. Then explore new horizons, from demand-driven replenishment and predictive material and resource planning to production engineering and operations.
Monitoring and Reporting:
Evaluate your key production planning metrics and ensure you’re meeting your company’s KPIs. Select your report parameters and see what SAP Fiori apps are available for production planning.

Key Highlights:

Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing
Batch management
Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
Demand management
Demand-driven replenishment (DDR)
Material requirements planning (MRP)
Predictive material and resource planning (pMRP)
Capacity requirements planning
Production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS)
Production engineering and operations
Kanban
Reporting and analysis

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Acknowledgments
Preface
- Goals of This Book
- Target Audience
- Structure and Content
PART I Core Production Planning Concepts
1 Introduction to Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA
- 1.1 Production Planning and Control
  - 1.1.1 Production Planning Overview
  - 1.1.2 Characteristics of Production Types
  - 1.1.3 Processes in Production Planning and Control
  - 1.1.4 Product Cost Controlling
- 1.2 Comparison Table of Production Types
- 1.3 Production Planning Features in SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA: A Comparison
- 1.4 SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain
- 1.5 Summary
2 Organizational Structure in SAP S/4HANA
- 2.1 Breaking Down the Structure into Units
  - 2.1.1 Client
  - 2.1.2 Company Code
  - 2.1.3 Plant
  - 2.1.4 Storage Location
  - 2.1.5 Material Requirements Planning Controllers
  - 2.1.6 Capacity Planners
  - 2.1.7 Production Schedulers
- 2.2 SAP Calendar
  - 2.2.1 Public Holidays
  - 2.2.2 Holiday Calendar
  - 2.2.3 Factory Calendar
- 2.3 Summary
PART II Production Planning Configuration
3 Discrete Manufacturing Configuration
- 3.1 Material Master
- 3.2 Bill of Materials
  - 3.2.1 Defining Bill of Materials Usages
  - 3.2.2 Allowed Material Types in the Bill of Materials Header
  - 3.2.3 Bill of Materials Status
  - 3.2.4 Bill of Materials with History Requirement
  - 3.2.5 Item Category in Bill of Materials
  - 3.2.6 Variable-Size Item Formulas
  - 3.2.7 Bill of Materials Explosion Types
  - 3.2.8 Bill of Materials Selection (Order of Priority)
- 3.3 Work Center
  - 3.3.1 Work Center Category
  - 3.3.2 Field Selection in the Work Center
  - 3.3.3 Formulas for the Work Center
  - 3.3.4 Standard Value Key
  - 3.3.5 Location Groups
  - 3.3.6 Control Key for Operations
- 3.4 Routing
- 3.5 Production Order Configuration
  - 3.5.1 Maintaining Order Types
  - 3.5.2 Number Ranges
- 3.6 Order Type–Dependent Plant Parameters
  - 3.6.1 Planning
  - 3.6.2 Implementation
  - 3.6.3 Cost Accounting
- 3.7 Production Scheduling Profile
- 3.8 Default Values for the Generation of Operations
- 3.9 Availability Check
  - 3.9.1 Define the Checking Group
  - 3.9.2 Define the Checking Rule
  - 3.9.3 Define the Scope of the Check
  - 3.9.4 Define the Checking Control
- 3.10 Scheduling
  - 3.10.1 Scheduling Types for Production Orders
  - 3.10.2 Scheduling Parameters for Production Orders
  - 3.10.3 Scheduling Margin Key
- 3.11 Reduction Strategy
- 3.12 Confirmation
  - 3.12.1 Process Overview
  - 3.12.2 Parameters for Order Confirmation
  - 3.12.3 Single Entry Screen for Confirmation
  - 3.12.4 Time of Confirmation
- 3.13 Reasons for Variances
- 3.14 Trigger Points
- 3.15 Defining Print Control
- 3.16 Background Jobs
- 3.17 Summary
4 Process Manufacturing Configuration
- 4.1 Master Data in Process Industries
  - 4.1.1 Master Recipe Profile
  - 4.1.2 Task List Assignment to Material Types
  - 4.1.3 Task List Status
- 4.2 Order Type–Dependent Parameters
  - 4.2.1 Master Data
  - 4.2.2 Planning
  - 4.2.3 Implementation
  - 4.2.4 Cost Accounting
- 4.3 Production Scheduling Profile
- 4.4 Process Management
  - 4.4.1 Key Terminology
  - 4.4.2 Standard Settings and Tools
- 4.5 Process Messages
  - 4.5.1 Creating a Process Message Characteristic
  - 4.5.2 Process Message Destination
  - 4.5.3 Process Message Categories
- 4.6 Process Instruction Categories
  - 4.6.1 Process Instruction Types
  - 4.6.2 Using a Wizard or Process Instruction Assistant
  - 4.6.3 Creating a Self-Defined Process Instruction Category
  - 4.6.4 Creating a Self-Defined Process Instruction Characteristic
- 4.7 Control Recipe/Process Instruction Sheets
  - 4.7.1 Creating a Control Recipe Destination
  - 4.7.2 Scope of Generation
- 4.8 Background Jobs
  - 4.8.1 Sending Control Recipes
  - 4.8.2 Sending Process Messages
  - 4.8.3 Deleting Process Messages
- 4.9 Process Manufacturing Cockpit
- 4.10 Summary
5 Repetitive Manufacturing Configuration
- 5.1 Repetitive Manufacturing Profile
  - 5.1.1 Repetitive Manufacturing Production Type
  - 5.1.2 Reporting Points
  - 5.1.3 Automatic Goods Movements
  - 5.1.4 Reporting Points: Confirmations and Kanban
  - 5.1.5 Activity Posting
  - 5.1.6 Separated Backflush
  - 5.1.7 Process Control
  - 5.1.8 Firming Planned Orders
  - 5.1.9 Automatic Stock Determination
  - 5.1.10 Batch Determination Procedure
  - 5.1.11 Reduction in Planned Order Quantities
  - 5.1.12 Reduction Period
  - 5.1.13 Creating New Planned Orders on Goods Receipts Reversals
  - 5.1.14 Online Error Correction
  - 5.1.15 Error Log Maintenance for Reprocessing
  - 5.1.16 Movement Types for Stock Postings
  - 5.1.17 Naming the Repetitive Manufacturing Profile
  - 5.1.18 Summary of Repetitive Manufacturing Profile Settings
- 5.2 Scheduling Planned Orders
- 5.3 Display
  - 5.3.1 Entry Parameters for a Planning Table
  - 5.3.2 Maintaining Row Selection
- 5.4 Material Staging
- 5.5 Global Settings for Confirmation and the Logistics Information System
- 5.6 Operational Methods Sheet
- 5.7 Summary
PART III Production Planning Workflows
6 Production Planning for Discrete Manufacturing
- 6.1 Process Overview
- 6.2 Master Data
  - 6.2.1 Material Master
  - 6.2.2 Bill of Materials
  - 6.2.3 Work Center
  - 6.2.4 Routing
  - 6.2.5 Production Versions
- 6.3 Production Order Management
  - 6.3.1 Header Data
  - 6.3.2 Operation Overview
  - 6.3.3 Standard Trigger Points
  - 6.3.4 Components Overview
  - 6.3.5 Reread Master Data
  - 6.3.6 Statuses
  - 6.3.7 Scheduling
  - 6.3.8 Availability Checks
- 6.4 Releasing Production Orders
  - 6.4.1 Automatic Release
  - 6.4.2 Individual Release
  - 6.4.3 Collective Release
- 6.5 Printing
- 6.6 Material Withdrawal
  - 6.6.1 Goods Issuance against the Production Order
  - 6.6.2 Picking List
  - 6.6.3 Backflush
- 6.7 Confirmation
  - 6.7.1 Confirmation at the Operations Level
  - 6.7.2 Progress Confirmation
  - 6.7.3 Confirmation of an Order
  - 6.7.4 Confirmation Cancellation
  - 6.7.5 Displaying a Confirmation
- 6.8 Goods Receipt
  - 6.8.1 Manual Process
  - 6.8.2 Automatic Process
- 6.9 Postprocessing
  - 6.9.1 Reprocessing Goods Movements
  - 6.9.2 Cost Calculation
- 6.10 Settlement and Completion
- 6.11 Additional Functions and Information Systems
  - 6.11.1 From Planned Order: Individual Conversion
  - 6.11.2 From Planned Orders: Collective Conversion
  - 6.11.3 Production Order Creation without a Material
  - 6.11.4 Mass Processing
  - 6.11.5 Information Systems
- 6.12 Summary
7 Production Planning for Process Manufacturing
- 7.1 Process Manufacturing Overview
- 7.2 Master Data in Process Manufacturing
  - 7.2.1 Material Master
  - 7.2.2 Bill of Materials
  - 7.2.3 Resource
  - 7.2.4 Production Version
  - 7.2.5 Master Recipe Creation
- 7.3 Characteristics
- 7.4 Process Management
  - 7.4.1 Elements in Process Management
  - 7.4.2 Integrating Process Management
  - 7.4.3 Process Instructions
  - 7.4.4 Process Instruction Sheet
- 7.5 Process Order Execution
- 7.6 Process Management in Action
  - 7.6.1 Creating and Releasing a Process Order
  - 7.6.2 Generating a Control Recipe
  - 7.6.3 Downloading and Sending a Control Recipe
  - 7.6.4 Maintaining Process Instruction Sheets
  - 7.6.5 Completing Process Instruction Sheets
  - 7.6.6 Sending Process Messages
- 7.7 Execution Steps
  - 7.7.1 Repository for Standard XSteps
  - 7.7.2 Importing the Standard XSteps Library
  - 7.7.3 Switching from Process Instructions to XSteps
  - 7.7.4 General Information
  - 7.7.5 Parameters
  - 7.7.6 Valuation
  - 7.7.7 Control Recipe Destination
  - 7.7.8 Process Instructions
- 7.8 Process Message Evaluation
- 7.9 Process Manufacturing Cockpit
- 7.10 Resources Network
- 7.11 Summary
8 Production Planning for Repetitive Manufacturing
- 8.1 Overview
  - 8.1.1 Roles of Repetitive Manufacturing in Planning and Production
  - 8.1.2 Repetitive Manufacturing Process Flow
- 8.2 Master Data
  - 8.2.1 Material Master
  - 8.2.2 Bill of Materials
  - 8.2.3 Work Center (Production Line)
  - 8.2.4 Rate Routing
  - 8.2.5 Production Version
- 8.3 Material Requirements Planning in Repetitive Manufacturing
- 8.4 Planning Table
  - 8.4.1 Parameters Selection
  - 8.4.2 Creating a Repetitive Manufacturing Planned Order
  - 8.4.3 Capacity Planning
  - 8.4.4 Changes and Evaluations
  - 8.4.5 Range of Coverage
- 8.5 Material Staging
  - 8.5.1 Current Situation
  - 8.5.2 Trigger Replenishment
  - 8.5.3 Collective Availability Check
- 8.6 Production List
- 8.7 Confirmation
  - 8.7.1 Overview
  - 8.7.2 Assembly Confirmation
  - 8.7.3 Component Confirmation
  - 8.7.4 Activities Confirmation
  - 8.7.5 Actual Assembly Confirmation
  - 8.7.6 Separated Backflush
  - 8.7.7 Postprocessing of Components
  - 8.7.8 Collective Confirmation
- 8.8 Reversals and Scrap
  - 8.8.1 Document-Specific Reversal
  - 8.8.2 Document-Neutral Reversal
  - 8.8.3 Repetitive Manufacturing Actual Assembly Scrap
  - 8.8.4 Repetitive Manufacturing Actual Component Scrap
  - 8.8.5 Repetitive Manufacturing Actual Activity Scrap
  - 8.8.6 Reset Reporting Point Confirmation
- 8.9 Costing Activities (Cost Object Controlling)
- 8.10 Heijunka
- 8.11 Reporting
  - 8.11.1 Document Log Information
  - 8.11.2 Reporting Point Statistics
- 8.12 Summary
PART IV Production Planning Tools
9 Kanban
- 9.1 Kanban Overview
- 9.2 Push-Pull Principle
- 9.3 Kanban Replenishment Strategies
- 9.4 Configuring Kanban
  - 9.4.1 Number Range for the Control Cycle
  - 9.4.2 Number Range for the Kanban Identification Number
  - 9.4.3 MRP Controllers
  - 9.4.4 Kanban Storage Location
  - 9.4.5 Kanban Board
  - 9.4.6 Production Supply Area
  - 9.4.7 Configuring Kanban Strategies
  - 9.4.8 Kanban Statuses
  - 9.4.9 Kanban Alerts
- 9.5 Setting Up Kanban Master Data
  - 9.5.1 Kanban Control Cycle
  - 9.5.2 Material Master/Production Version
  - 9.5.3 Bill of Materials
- 9.6 Replenishment with Kanban
  - 9.6.1 Kanban Replenishment via Production
  - 9.6.2 Kanban Replenishment via Procurement
  - 9.6.3 Kanban Replenishment via Stock Transfer
  - 9.6.4 Printing Kanban Cards
  - 9.6.5 Kanban Error Processing
  - 9.6.6 Separated Post Goods Receipts
  - 9.6.7 Kanban Signal: Two-Kanban Process
  - 9.6.8 Logical Stock and Physical Stock
- 9.7 Evaluating and Reporting Kanban
  - 9.7.1 Control Cycle and Kanban Evaluation
  - 9.7.2 Kanban Analysis
  - 9.7.3 Delayed Replenishment Elements
  - 9.7.4 Kanban Plant Overview
  - 9.7.5 Kanban Control Cycle Analysis
- 9.8 Summary
10 Batch Management
- 10.1 Batch Management Overview
- 10.2 Batch Level and Batch Status Management
  - 10.2.1 Defining the Batch Level
  - 10.2.2 Assigning a Batch Number
  - 10.2.3 Creating New Batches in the Production Process
  - 10.2.4 Creating Batches for Goods Movement
- 10.3 Master Data in Batch Management
  - 10.3.1 Activating Batch Management in the Material Master
  - 10.3.2 Batch Classification
  - 10.3.3 Assigning a Classification in the Material Master
- 10.4 Business Processes of Batch Management
  - 10.4.1 Creating a Batch Master Manually
  - 10.4.2 Changing a Batch
  - 10.4.3 Deleting a Batch
  - 10.4.4 Automatic Creation of a Batch in Goods Movement
  - 10.4.5 Stock Overview
- 10.5 Batch Determination
  - 10.5.1 Defining Condition Tables
  - 10.5.2 Defining the Access Sequence
  - 10.5.3 Defining Strategy Types
  - 10.5.4 Defining the Batch Search Procedure
  - 10.5.5 Allocating Batch Search Procedures and Activating Checks
  - 10.5.6 Batch Search Procedure for Process Orders
  - 10.5.7 Creating Sort Rules
  - 10.5.8 Maintaining Condition Records
  - 10.5.9 Business Process
- 10.6 Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates
  - 10.6.1 Quality Management Master Data Checklist
  - 10.6.2 Business Processes
- 10.7 Active Ingredient Management
  - 10.7.1 Configuration Basics
  - 10.7.2 Master Data
  - 10.7.3 Business Processes
- 10.8 Batch Derivation
  - 10.8.1 Configuration Basics
  - 10.8.2 Classification in Material Master
  - 10.8.3 Business Processes
  - 10.8.4 Reporting
- 10.9 Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches
  - 10.9.1 Configuration Settings
  - 10.9.2 Master Data Setup
  - 10.9.3 Business Processes
  - 10.9.4 Reporting
- 10.10 Batch Information Cockpit
- 10.11 Electronic Batch Record
- 10.12 Summary
11 Sales and Operations Planning
- 11.1 Standard Sales and Operations Planning
  - 11.1.1 Overview
  - 11.1.2 Information Structures
  - 11.1.3 Planning Methods
  - 11.1.4 Planning Types in Standard Sales and Operations Planning
  - 11.1.5 Distributing Key Figures
  - 11.1.6 Working with Macros
- 11.2 Flexible Planning
  - 11.2.1 Creating a Self-Defined Information structure
  - 11.2.2 Planning Hierarchy
  - 11.2.3 Planning Type
  - 11.2.4 Working with Self-Defined Macros in Flexible Planning
  - 11.2.5 Row Attributes in a Planning Type
  - 11.2.6 Planning in the Planning Table
  - 11.2.7 Additional Features of Planning Tables
- 11.3 Version Management
  - 11.3.1 Copying a Version
  - 11.3.2 Deleting a Version
  - 11.3.3 Scheduling a Copy Version or a Delete Version
- 11.4 Forecasting
  - 11.4.1 Forecasting View in the Material Master
  - 11.4.2 Forecast Models
  - 11.4.3 Forecast Profile
  - 11.4.4 Forecast Strategy
  - 11.4.5 Using the Forecast Profile
  - 11.4.6 Weighting Group
  - 11.4.7 Splitting Indicator
- 11.5 Rough-Cut Planning Profile
  - 11.5.1 Creating a Profile
  - 11.5.2 Pegged Requirements
- 11.6 Events
  - 11.6.1 Creating Events
  - 11.6.2 Assigning Events
  - 11.6.3 Events in Planning
- 11.7 Mass Processing in Sales and Operations Planning
  - 11.7.1 Planning Activity
  - 11.7.2 Setting Up a Mass Processing Job
  - 11.7.3 Scheduling the Mass Processing Job
- 11.8 Standard Analysis in Flexible Planning
- 11.9 Summary
12 Demand Management
- 12.1 Elements of Demand Management
  - 12.1.1 Consumption Modes and Logic
  - 12.1.2 Determining the Requirements Type
  - 12.1.3 Availability Check and Total Replenishment Lead Time
- 12.2 Strategies for Make-to-Stock Production
  - 12.2.1 Strategy 40: Planning with Final Assembly
  - 12.2.2 Strategy 30: Production by Lot Size
  - 12.2.3 Strategy 10: Net Requirements Planning
  - 12.2.4 Strategy 11: Gross Requirements Planning
  - 12.2.5 Strategy 52: Planning with Final Assembly and without Make-to-Order
  - 12.2.6 Strategy 63: Planning with a Planning Material and without Make-to-Order
- 12.3 Strategies for Make-to-Order Production
  - 12.3.1 Strategy 20: Make-to-Order Production
  - 12.3.2 Strategy 60: Planning with a Planning Material
  - 12.3.3 Strategy 50: Planning Without Final Assembly
- 12.4 Strategies for Assemble-to-Order
  - 12.4.1 Strategy 81: Assembly Processing with Planned Orders
  - 12.4.2 Strategy 82: Assembly Processing with Production Orders
- 12.5 Strategies for Planning Components
  - 12.5.1 Strategy 70: Planning at the Assembly Level
  - 12.5.2 Strategy 59: Planning at the Phantom Assembly Level
- 12.6 Production with Variant Configuration
- 12.7 Creating a Custom Requirement Class
  - 12.7.1 Copying Standard Requirements Classes
  - 12.7.2 Creating a Requirements Type and Adding the Requirements Class
  - 12.7.3 Creating a Planning Strategy
  - 12.7.4 Creating a Strategy Group and Including the Newly Created Planning Strategy
  - 12.7.5 Assigning a Strategy Group to a Material Requirements Planning Group
- 12.8 Business Processes in Demand Management
  - 12.8.1 Planned Independent Requirements
  - 12.8.2 Customer-Independent Requirements
  - 12.8.3 Planning and Stock/Requirements List for Independent Requirements
  - 12.8.4 Total Independent Requirements: Evaluation
  - 12.8.5 Total Independent Requirements: Reorganization
  - 12.8.6 Planned Independent Requirements: Reduction
- 12.9 Summary
13 Material Requirements Planning
- 13.1 Process Overview
- 13.2 Deterministic Replenishment Procedures
  - 13.2.1 Material Requirements Planning Type PD
  - 13.2.2 Material Requirements Planning Type VB
  - 13.2.3 Material Requirements Planning Type VM
  - 13.2.4 Material Requirements Planning Type V1
  - 13.2.5 Material Requirements Planning Type V2
  - 13.2.6 Material Requirements Planning Types D1 and D2
- 13.3 Stochastic Replenishment Procedures
  - 13.3.1 Material Requirements Planning Type VV
  - 13.3.2 Material Requirements Planning Types R1 and R2
- 13.4 Configuring Material Requirements Planning Types
- 13.5 Lot Sizing Procedures
  - 13.5.1 Static Lot Sizing Procedures
  - 13.5.2 Periodic Lot Sizing Procedures
  - 13.5.3 Optimum Lot Sizing Procedures
  - 13.5.4 Configuring Lot Size
- 13.6 Rounding
- 13.7 Scrap
  - 13.7.1 Assembly Scrap
  - 13.7.2 Component Scrap
  - 13.7.3 Operations and Component Scrap in Bill of Materials
  - 13.7.4 Scrap in Routing
- 13.8 Safety Stock
  - 13.8.1 Static Safety Stock
  - 13.8.2 Safety Stock Availability
  - 13.8.3 Dynamic Safety Stock with Range of Coverage Profile
  - 13.8.4 Safety Stock and Safety Time
  - 13.8.5 MRP Safety Stock Method
- 13.9 Scheduling
  - 13.9.1 Scheduling In-House Production
  - 13.9.2 Basic Date Determination
  - 13.9.3 Planned Order Dates
  - 13.9.4 Scheduling External Procurement
  - 13.9.5 Forward and Backward Scheduling
- 13.10 Procurement Proposals
  - 13.10.1 Planned Orders
  - 13.10.2 Collective Availability Check on Planned Orders
  - 13.10.3 Planned Order Profile
- 13.11 Configuration Settings for Material Requirements Planning
  - 13.11.1 Material Requirements Planning Activation
  - 13.11.2 Scope of Planning Configuration
  - 13.11.3 Plant Parameters Configuration
  - 13.11.4 Material Requirements Planning Group Configuration
- 13.12 MRP Live
- 13.13 Stock/Requirements List
  - 13.13.1 Overview
  - 13.13.2 Traffic Lights for Days’ Supply and Receipt Days’ Supply
  - 13.13.3 Exception Messages
  - 13.13.4 Order Report
  - 13.13.5 Pegged Requirements
  - 13.13.6 Material Requirements Planning Elements
  - 13.13.7 Header Details of Stock/Requirements List
  - 13.13.8 Interactive Conversion of Procurement Elements
  - 13.13.9 Summation View
  - 13.13.10 Stock Statistics
  - 13.13.11 User Settings
- 13.14 Planning Calendar
- 13.15 Planning Areas
  - 13.15.1 Configuration
  - 13.15.2 Set Up the Material Master
  - 13.15.3 Running Material Requirements at the Planning Area Level
  - 13.15.4 Planning Results
- 13.16 Classic Material Requirements Planning
- 13.17 Types of Planning Runs
  - 13.17.1 Total Planning Online
  - 13.17.2 Total Planning Background
  - 13.17.3 Single-Item Planning, Sales Order
  - 13.17.4 Single-Item Planning, Project
- 13.18 Summary
14 Demand-Driven Replenishment
- 14.1 Limitations of Current Materials Planning and Replenishment Tools
- 14.2 Material and Information Flows
- 14.3 Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning Basics and Components
  - 14.3.1 Where to Implement Demand-Driven Replenishment
  - 14.3.2 Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning Components
- 14.4 Demand-Driven Material Requirements Planning Setup
  - 14.4.1 Configuration Settings
  - 14.4.2 Master Data Settings
  - 14.4.3 Transactions
- 14.5 Running Demand-Driven Replenishment
  - 14.5.1 Protecting Throughput
  - 14.5.2 Classification
  - 14.5.3 Buffer Positioning
  - 14.5.4 Lead Time Classification
  - 14.5.5 Buffer Level Determination
  - 14.5.6 Planning and Execution
  - 14.5.7 Metrics and Analytics
- 14.6 Summary
15 Predictive Material and Resource Planning
- 15.1 Basics
- 15.2 Setup
- 15.3 Managing pMRP
- 15.4 Releasing Results to Operative Material Requirements Planning
- 15.5 Using Flexible Constraints
- 15.6 Summary
16 Capacity Requirements Planning
- 16.1 Process Overview
- 16.2 Capacity Requirements and Capacity Evaluation
  - 16.2.1 Capacity Requirements
  - 16.2.2 Standard Evaluation of Capacity Utilization
  - 16.2.3 Variable Evaluation of Capacity Utilization
  - 16.2.4 Cumulating the Capacity Requirements
  - 16.2.5 Checking Capacity Availability
- 16.3 Finite Scheduling
- 16.4 Dispatching
  - 16.4.1 Process Steps
  - 16.4.2 Profiles for Dispatching
  - 16.4.3 Dispatching Sequence
  - 16.4.4 Sequence-Dependent Setup
  - 16.4.5 Midpoint Scheduling
  - 16.4.6 Mass Processing
- 16.5 Capacity Planning Table
  - 16.5.1 Changing Orders, Operations, or Capacity
  - 16.5.2 Dispatch Operations
  - 16.5.3 Deallocation
  - 16.5.4 Options in the Graphical Planning Table
  - 16.5.5 Material Availability before Dispatching
- 16.6 Summary
17 Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling
- 17.1 Configuration
- 17.2 Master Data in PP/DS
  - 17.2.1 Location
  - 17.2.2 Material Master
  - 17.2.3 Work Center/Resource
  - 17.2.4 Sources of Supply
  - 17.2.5 Stock and Batches
- 17.3 Business Processes
- 17.4 Heuristics
- 17.5 Production Planning Run
  - 17.5.1 Executing Planning in SAP S/4HANA
  - 17.5.2 Conversion of PP/DS Planned Orders
  - 17.5.3 Production Planning: Detailed Scheduling Optimizer
- 17.6 Reporting and Monitoring Apps
  - 17.6.1 Production Scheduling Board
  - 17.6.2 Monitor Capacity Utilization
  - 17.6.3 Creating Optimal Orders for Shipment
- 17.7 Alert Monitor
- 17.8 Plan Monitor
- 17.9 Summary
18 Production Engineering and Operations
- 18.1 Key Terminology
- 18.2 Configuration Settings and Production Engineering and Operations Setup
  - 18.2.1 Activating Extended Manufacturing Features
  - 18.2.2 Assigning Roles and Authorizations
  - 18.2.3 Maintaining Number Ranges
  - 18.2.4 Creating Business Partners and Manufacturing Users
  - 18.2.5 Defining Profiles
  - 18.2.6 Bills of Materials
  - 18.2.7 Routing
  - 18.2.8 Creating a Control Key
  - 18.2.9 Configuring Order Type?Dependent Plant Parameters
  - 18.2.10 Planning Scenarios
- 18.3 Production Engineering Master Data Setup
  - 18.3.1 BOM Management
  - 18.3.2 Maintaining the Work Center
  - 18.3.3 Managing Shop Floor Routing
  - 18.3.4 Managing Production Versions
- 18.4 Planning in Production Engineering
- 18.5 Production Operations
  - 18.5.1 Viewing the Production Order
  - 18.5.2 Assign Work App
  - 18.5.3 Performing Operation Activity
  - 18.5.4 Work Instructions
  - 18.5.5 Change Impact Analysis App
- 18.6 Reporting
  - 18.6.1 Product Genealogy App
  - 18.6.2 As-Built Report App
  - 18.6.3 Defect Management
  - 18.6.4 Production Action Log
  - 18.6.5 Data Subject Information Report
- 18.7 Summary
PART V Monitoring and Evaluating Production Planning
19 Production Planning Reporting
- 19.1 The Basics of Reporting
- 19.2 Report Parameters
  - 19.2.1 Selection Screen at Header Level
  - 19.2.2 Selection at the Operations and Components Levels with Options
  - 19.2.3 Selection Screen for Dates
  - 19.2.4 Multiple Selection
  - 19.2.5 Maintain Selection
  - 19.2.6 Maintain Variant
  - 19.2.7 Order Header in Process Orders
  - 19.2.8 Filter Settings
  - 19.2.9 Download
  - 19.2.10 Copy Selective Data to Microsoft Excel
  - 19.2.11 Print
- 19.3 Order Information System Reports
  - 19.3.1 Automatic Goods Movement
  - 19.3.2 Capacities
  - 19.3.3 Production Resources/Tools
  - 19.3.4 Items
  - 19.3.5 Document Links
  - 19.3.6 Execution Steps
- 19.4 Missing Parts Information System
- 19.5 Summary
20 Standard Planning Analysis
- 20.1 Discrete Manufacturing/Production Order
  - 20.1.1 Work Center
  - 20.1.2 Operations
  - 20.1.3 Material
  - 20.1.4 Production Order
  - 20.1.5 Product Costs
- 20.2 Process Manufacturing/Process Order
- 20.3 Repetitive Manufacturing
- 20.4 Additional Analysis Functions
  - 20.4.1 Key Figures
  - 20.4.2 Icons
  - 20.4.3 Other Information Structures
- 20.5 Summary
21 SAP Fiori Apps for Production Planning
- 21.1 SAP Fiori Launchpad and SAP Fiori Apps Reference Library
- 21.2 SAP Fiori Applications
  - 21.2.1 Monitor Material Coverage App
  - 21.2.2 Monitor External Requirements App
  - 21.2.3 Monitor Internal Requirements App
  - 21.2.4 Manage Production Orders App
  - 21.2.5 Display MRP Master Data Issues App
  - 21.2.6 Scrap Reason App
  - 21.2.7 Operation Scrap App
  - 21.2.8 Reprocess Failed Material Movements App
  - 21.2.9 Manage Work Center Capacity App
  - 21.2.10 Material Documents Overview App
  - 21.2.11 Manage Production Version App
  - 21.2.12 Capacity Scheduling Board App
  - 21.2.13 Kanban Board App
  - 21.2.14 Stock—Single and Multiple Materials App
  - 21.2.15 Manage Production Operations App
  - 21.2.16 Releasing Production Orders
  - 21.2.17 Analyze PIR Quality App
  - 21.2.18 Excess Component Consumption App
  - 21.2.19 Analyze Costs by Work Center/Operation App
  - 21.2.20 Production Cost Analysis App
  - 21.2.21 Capacity Scheduling Table App
  - 21.2.22 Manage Process Orders App
  - 21.2.23 Manage Process Order Operations App
  - 21.2.24 Production Execution Duration App
- 21.3 Summary
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