SAP Production Planning (PP)
In SAP Production Planning - manages your production process, including Capacity planning, Master production scheduling, Material requirements planning.
- Organizational and Master Data
- Business Process for Manufacturing Planning and Execution
- Reporting and Analysis
Production/Manufacturing Planning and Execution main components
Sales Info System
Information contains total sales orders already obtained, incoming sales orders, pending sales orders - product wise, customer wise, region wise.
Forecasting
- Based on the past history of consumption, a forecast of the sales figures for a product can be made.
- Future projections are made using one of the Statistical forecasting method
Activities in Production Planning
Displaying and setting planning file entries manually
Executing single-item planning
- single-item, single-level planning
- multi-level, single-item planning
- interactive single-item planning
- sales order planning
- project planning
- planning with the planning table
The SAP Production Planning and Manufacturing is one the core modules within the SAP ERP Business suites . This module allows companies to manage their entire production value chain. During this course various areas of production planning will be looked at including creating and managing material masters, BOM, classes, characteristics and documents associated with production planning. Other areas like variant configurations production program planning make-to-stock, MRP will be looked at. We will also be looking at production planning and reporting analysis, integration of production planning to other SAP ERP modules.
