SAP PP Training (Production Planning & Manufacturing)

Understand the manufacturing types SAP supports and set up the structure that production posts against.

• Discrete, repetitive and process manufacturing compared
• Plant, storage location and production organisation
• Make to stock versus make to order
• The planning and execution cycle end to end
• PP integration with MM, SD, QM, PM and CO
• S/4HANA changes: MRP Live, pMRP and Fiori apps
• Key PP tables and where to look when planning misbehaves
• Master data governance for manufacturing

Model what a product is made of, including the variants and alternatives real factories need.

• BOM types, usage and status
• Single-level, multi-level and multiple BOMs
• Item categories: stock, non-stock, variable size, text
• Alternative BOMs and BOM selection
• Engineering change management basics
• BOM explosion and where-used analysis
• Phantom assemblies and their planning effect
• BOM mass change and reporting

Define where and how the product is made, and the times that drive capacity and cost.

• Work centre creation, categories and usage
• Capacity headers, formulas and available capacity
• Cost centre and activity type assignment
• Standard value keys and operation times
• Routing header, sequences and operations
• Component allocation to operations
• Reference operation sets and rate routings
• Production versions linking BOM and routing

Decide what to build before the orders arrive, using the right planning strategy for the business.

• Planned independent requirements
• Planning strategies 10, 20, 40 and their behaviour
• Consumption modes and consumption periods
• Requirement types and requirement classes
• Sales and operations planning overview
• Flexible planning and rough-cut planning
• Demand transfer to MRP
• Forecasting basics inside SAP

Run the engine that turns demand into planned orders and purchase requisitions, and interpret what it produced.

• MRP types, lot sizing procedures and safety stock
• MRP areas and plant-level planning
• MRP Live in S/4HANA and how it differs from classic MRP
• Planning run: NETCH, NETPL and regenerative
• Planned orders, purchase requisitions and exception messages
• The stock requirements list (MD04) as a diagnostic tool
• MRP controller and planning file entries
• Converting planned orders and firming

Take an order through the shop floor the way a planner and a supervisor actually do.

• Production order creation and structure
• Order types, order type dependent parameters and number ranges
• Scheduling: forward, backward and today scheduling
• Availability check for components and capacity
• Order release, printing and shop-floor papers
• Goods issue, backflush and component withdrawal
• Confirmations: time ticket, milestone and collective
• Goods receipt and order technical completion

Level the load and understand where process industries differ from discrete manufacturing.

• Capacity requirements and capacity evaluation
• Capacity levelling and the planning table
• Finite versus infinite scheduling
• Process manufacturing: master recipe and resource
• Process orders and control recipes
• Batch management basics in production
• Co-products and by-products
• Repetitive manufacturing and run schedule quantities

Explain what a production order costs and why the actual differed from the plan, which is the question management always asks.

• Product cost planning and the cost estimate
• Preliminary costing on the production order
• Actual cost collection and activity confirmation
• Work in progress calculation
• Variance categories and variance calculation
• Order settlement to finance
• Standard PP reports and the information system
• Fiori manufacturing apps and shop-floor dashboards