SAP PP Production Planning Course Introduction
SAP Production Planning is one of the key modules in ERP and deals with planning processes, such as capacity planning, material planning, execution of production order, bill of material and goods movement. SAP PP module handles the master data required for Bill of Materials (BOMs) activity, work center and routing, and keeps it in a separate component.
SAP PP sub modules vary as per industry type like discrete production, repetitive production, or production industries , It is fully integrated with the other SAP modules: SD, MM, QM, FICO & PM.
Organization Structure in SAP PP
In any live Production Planning module, locations of manufacturing plants and storage within the plants, should be available in the system.
Importance of Plant and storage locations in Production Planning-
- All Production master data is created at Plant level.
- Planning activities are also performed at Plant level.
- Production Confirmation process and related goods movement occur at plant and storage location level.
Master data is generally static for any company and is very rarely changed depending on the requirement. There are 5 master data to be maintained in Production Planning module.
- Material Master
- Bill of Material (BOM)
- Work Center
- Routing
- Production version
SAP PP Training Course Content
- my SAP Business Suite
- Navigation (system handling)
- PP Overview
- Organizational Overview
- Material Master
- Bills of Material
- Work center
- Routings
- Sales and Operations Planning
- Sales Operations Planning Basics
- Standard SOP
- Flexible Planning
- Overview of Demand Management
- Make to Stock versus Make to Order
- Make to Stock Planning Strategies
- Make to Order Planning Strategies
- Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
- Concept of Material Requirements Planning
- Technical process of the MRP run
- Prerequisites for Running MRP
- Methods for Executing planning run
- MRP process control Parameters
- Factors influencing the MRP run
- Analyzing MRP results
- Production Order Execution
- Production Order Creation
- Availability Check
- Production Order Release
- Capacity Planning
- Scheduling
- Production Order Printing
- Goods Issue of components
- Confirmations
- Goods Receipt
- Product Costing & Settlement
- Master Data
- Planning (line loading)
- Material Staging
- Back flush and Receipts
- Evaluations
- Resources
- Master recipes
- Production version
- Process orders
- PI sheets and Process Management
- Batch Creation in production
- Manual and Automatic Batch Creation
- Classification
- Batch Determination in Production Order
- Master Data Configuration
- MRP plant parameters
- Order type dependant parameters
- Scheduling parameters
- Confirmation parameters