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Allocate your materials, personnel, and machinery with SAP S/4HANA! This comprehensive guide will show you how to configure production planning in SAP S/4HANA for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing. Then run those processes using step-by-step instructions. Master production workflows, like batch management, S&OP, demand management, and MRP. With industry examples throughout, this guide is your one-stop shop for PP with SAP S/4HANA!

Highlights:
1) Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing
2) Batch management
3) Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
4) Demand management
5) Material requirements planning (MRP)
6) Long-term planning (LTP)
7) Capacity requirements planning (CRP)
8) Early Warning System (EWS)
9) Reporting and analysis

Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA

... Acknowledgments ... 27


... Preface ... 29


... Goals of This Book ... 30


... 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 ... 38


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


1.3 ... SAP Integrated Business Planning ... 55


1.4 ... Summary ... 57


2 ... Organizational Structure in SAP ... 59


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


2.2 ... SAP Calendar ... 68


2.3 ... Summary ... 72


Part II ... Production Planning Configuration ... 73


3 ... Discrete Manufacturing Configuration ... 75


3.1 ... Material Master ... 76


3.2 ... Bill of Materials ... 78


3.3 ... Work Center ... 84


3.4 ... Routing ... 95


3.5 ... Production Order Configuration ... 97


3.6 ... Order Type-Dependent Plant Parameters ... 101


3.7 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 106


3.8 ... Default Values for the Generation of Operations ... 109


3.9 ... Availability Check ... 110


3.10 ... Scheduling ... 116


3.11 ... Reduction Strategy ... 121


3.12 ... Confirmation ... 122


3.13 ... Reason for Variances ... 130


3.14 ... Trigger Points ... 132


3.15 ... Define Print Control ... 132


3.16 ... Background Jobs ... 133


3.17 ... Summary ... 134


4 ... Process Manufacturing Configuration ... 135


4.1 ... Master Data in Process Industries ... 136


4.2 ... Order Type-Dependent Parameters ... 139


4.3 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 143


4.4 ... Process Management ... 144


4.5 ... Process Messages ... 149


4.6 ... Process Instruction Category ... 155


4.7 ... Control Recipe/Process Instruction Sheets ... 173


4.8 ... Background Jobs ... 177


4.9 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 179


4.10 ... Summary ... 182


5 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Configuration ... 183


5.1 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Profile ... 184


5.2 ... Scheduling Planned Orders ... 196


5.3 ... Display ... 197


5.4 ... Material Staging ... 199


5.5 ... Global Settings for Confirmation and the Logistics Information System ... 200


5.6 ... Operational Methods Sheet ... 201


5.7 ... Summary ... 202


Part III ... Production Planning Workflows ... 203


6 ... Production Planning for Discrete Manufacturing ... 205


6.1 ... Process Overview ... 206


6.2 ... Master Data ... 207


6.3 ... Production Order Management ... 246


6.4 ... Release Production Order ... 266


6.5 ... Printing ... 269


6.6 ... Material Withdrawal ... 272


6.7 ... Confirmation ... 279


6.8 ... Goods Receipt ... 286


6.9 ... Postprocessing ... 289


6.10 ... Settlement and Completion ... 291


6.11 ... Additional Functions and Information Systems ... 293


6.12 ... Summary ... 298


7 ... Production Planning for Process Manufacturing ... 299


7.1 ... Process Manufacturing Overview ... 300


7.2 ... Master Data in Process Manufacturing ... 302


7.3 ... Characteristics ... 312


7.4 ... Process Management ... 316


7.5 ... Process Order Execution ... 330


7.6 ... Process Management in Action ... 332


7.7 ... Execution Steps ... 343


7.8 ... Process Messages Evaluation ... 357


7.9 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 359


7.10 ... Summary ... 360


8 ... Production Planning for Repetitive Manufacturing ... 361


8.1 ... Overview ... 362


8.2 ... Master Data ... 365


8.3 ... Material Requirements Planning in REM ... 387


8.4 ... Planning Table ... 390


8.5 ... Material Staging ... 401


8.6 ... Production List ... 405


8.7 ... Confirmation ... 407


8.8 ... Reversals and Scrap ... 417


8.9 ... Costing Activities (Cost Object Controlling) ... 422


8.10 ... Heijunka ... 424


8.11 ... Reporting ... 425


8.12 ... Summary ... 427


Part IV ... Production Planning Tools ... 429


9 ... Batch Management ... 431


9.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 431


9.2 ... Batch Level and Batch Status Management ... 433


9.3 ... Master Data in Batch Management ... 438


9.4 ... Business Processes of Batch Management ... 443


9.5 ... Batch Determination ... 452


9.6 ... Recurring Inspection and Expiration Dates ... 467


9.7 ... Batch Derivation ... 474


9.8 ... Batch Traceability of Work in Process Batches ... 487


9.9 ... Batch Information Cockpit ... 499


9.10 ... Electronic Batch Record ... 501


9.11 ... Summary ... 503


10 ... Sales and Operations Planning ... 505


10.1 ... Standard Sales and Operations Planning ... 506


10.2 ... Flexible Planning ... 527


10.3 ... Version Management ... 551


10.4 ... Forecasting ... 553


10.5 ... Rough-Cut Planning Profile ... 567


10.6 ... Events ... 572


10.7 ... Mass Processing in Sales and Operations Planning ... 578


10.8 ... Standard Analysis in Flexible Planning ... 581


10.9 ... Summary ... 584


11 ... Demand Management ... 585


11.1 ... Elements of Demand Management ... 586


11.2 ... Strategies for Make-to-Stock Production ... 593


11.3 ... Strategies for Make-to-Order Production ... 605


11.4 ... Strategies for Assemble-to-Order ... 612


11.5 ... Strategies for Planning Components ... 618


11.6 ... Production with Variant Configuration ... 621


11.7 ... Create a Custom Requirement Class ... 624


11.8 ... Business Processes in Demand Management ... 629


11.9 ... Summary ... 641


12 ... Foundations of Material Requirements Planning ... 643


12.1 ... Process Overview ... 644


12.2 ... Deterministic Replenishment Procedures ... 651


12.3 ... Stochastic Replenishment Procedures ... 664


12.4 ... Configuring Material Requirements Planning Types ... 669


12.5 ... Lot Sizing Procedures ... 672


12.6 ... Rounding ... 681


12.7 ... Scrap ... 683


12.8 ... Safety Stock ... 686


12.9 ... Scheduling ... 695


12.10 ... Procurement Proposals ... 700


12.11 ... Configuration Settings for Material Requirements Planning ... 706


12.12 ... Summary ... 711


13 ... Running Material Requirements Planning ... 713


13.1 ... MRP Live ... 715


13.2 ... Stock/Requirements List ... 720


13.3 ... Planning Calendar ... 737


13.4 ... Planning Areas ... 739


13.5 ... Classic Material Requirements Planning ... 744


13.6 ... Types of Planning Runs ... 746


13.7 ... Demand-Driven Replenishment ... 748


13.8 ... Summary ... 783


14 ... Long-Term Planning ... 785


14.1 ... Long-Term Planning Master Data and Planning Data ... 786


14.2 ... Long-Term Planning: Business Process ... 794


14.3 ... Additional Features in Long-Term Planning ... 800


14.4 ... Evaluate Information Systems ... 806


14.5 ... Summary ... 812


15 ... Capacity Requirements Planning ... 813


15.1 ... Process Overview ... 814


15.2 ... Capacity Requirements and Capacity Evaluation ... 817


15.3 ... Finite Scheduling ... 833


15.4 ... Dispatching ... 835


15.5 ... Capacity Planning Table ... 851


15.6 ... Summary ... 858


16 ... Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling ... 859


16.1 ... Configuration ... 860


16.2 ... Master Data in PP-DS ... 866


16.3 ... Business Processes ... 883


16.4 ... Heuristics ... 891


16.5 ... Production Planning Run ... 893


16.6 ... Reporting and Monitoring Apps ... 907


16.7 ... Alert Monitor ... 913


16.8 ... Plan Monitor ... 915


16.9 ... Summary ... 920


Part V ... Monitoring and Evaluating Production Planning ... 921


17 ... Early Warning System ... 923


17.1 ... Overview ... 923


17.2 ... Exceptions ... 925


17.3 ... Set Up Periodic Analysis ... 932


17.4 ... Schedule an Early Warning System ... 935


17.5 ... Triggering an Early Warning System ... 936


17.6 ... Exception Analysis ... 939


17.7 ... Summary ... 942


18 ... Production Planning Reporting ... 943


18.1 ... The Basics of Reporting ... 943


18.2 ... Report Parameters ... 945


18.3 ... Order Information System Reports ... 958


18.4 ... Missing Parts Information System ... 960


18.5 ... Summary ... 962


19 ... Standard Planning Analysis ... 963


19.1 ... Discrete Manufacturing/Production Order ... 964


19.2 ... Process Manufacturing/Process Order ... 970


19.3 ... Repetitive Manufacturing ... 971


19.4 ... Additional Analysis Functions ... 971


19.5 ... Summary ... 975


20 ... SAP Fiori Apps for Production Planning ... 977


20.1 ... SAP Fiori Launchpad and Apps Library ... 977


20.2 ... SAP Fiori Applications ... 979


20.3 ... Summary ... 991


A ... The Author ... 993


... Index ... 995