SAP PP - Capacity Requirements Planning in SAP (PP-CRP)

Develop capacity planning insights for a fictional bicycle company, smart cycle, using SAP ERP and Excel in a demonstration while building master data to illustrate how data settings influence planning.

Identify key components in the material master design for capacity planning in SAP PP by mapping a bicycle's frame, wheel, seat, and handle subassemblies to personalized master data.

Create material master records using the compendium spreadsheet. Configure basic data, MRP, work scheduling, and accounting views for in-house and externally sourced materials to support capacity planning.

Explore the design of bills of material as a production planning object, outlining main subassemblies and their components for a bicycle, including frame, seat, wheels, and handle components.

Develop and document bill of materials for subassemblies and the final assembly in SAP, leveraging the BOM design exercise to manage component lists, base quantities, and material master data.

Create a capacity planning group in sap pp crp, assign capacity planners to work centers and center categories, and learn why defining the group first guides capacity planning.

Create the capacity plan for a group and assign the person responsible for a work center, using customizing to save in a customizing request for transport to other environments.

Create the default capacity definition and set up capacity categories for machining and labor to streamline work center creation in sap pp.

Design work centers for sap pp capacity planning by mapping components and finished goods storage to manufacturing areas, and assigning two capacity categories, machining and labor, to assembly centers.

Create and customize SAP work centers using default values from the design companion spreadsheet, configuring category 001 machining and 003 labor, and setting up capacities, scheduling, and costing in SAP.

Continue the work center design exercise by creating initial work centers for category 0001 machining and category 0003, using the design compendious spreadsheet and validating defaults, capacities, scheduling, and costing.

Explore routing design overview by mapping the bicycle manufacturing process in SAP PP, detailing five operations, material staging, buffers before and after production, and quantity-based assembly at the work center.

Map the manufacturing process by creating routings from the companion spreadsheet, detailing work centers, plants, processing times, and lot sizes for capacity planning in SAP.

Explore the capacity evaluation process in SAP PP, including evaluating capacity, selecting work centers or orders, and configuring evaluation types and settings to identify overloads and underutilization.

Create capacity requirements in SAP PP by generating planned independent requirements (forecast) in weekly buckets, running MRP to produce supply elements, and converting planned orders to production orders.

Learn how SAP PP capacity evaluation profiles set default selections and settings for capacity reports, using graphics profile, selection profile, options profile, and least profile.

Run the work center report for capacity evaluation to identify the capacity and profiles used. Use the planning profiles menu to view and create a custom profile for capacity evaluation.

Navigate SAP PP capacity evaluation profiles in customization to view overall, selection, operating, graphic, and other profiles, and create safe copies of standard profiles.

Analyze the selection profile in SAP PP-CRP, including the default load report profile and the main settings, and learn how to customize via SPRO for the initial set.

Identify the default list profile in SAP capacity requirements planning and explore its options, including standard overview, detail capacity, and variable overview.

Explore graphics profile customization in SAP PP capacity planning, compare default vertical bars to horizontal bars and lines, and create a new profile to test changes reflected in elevation transactions.

Explore how the options profile in SAP PP capacity requirements planning customizing sets default values, including journal and general settings, and define a 60-day evaluation interval.

Explore the standard overview of capacity requirements in SAP PP capacity planning (PP-CRP), analyzing time buckets, overloads, and remaining capacity across work centers with dynamic graphical evaluations and journal settings.

Explore how journal settings shape the standard overview in the work center load report, adjusting weekly capacity evaluations, interval lengths, and bucket displays to analyze capacity load.

Explore how hierarchies in capacity planning create statistical work centers and umbrella-grouped labor across shop floor areas to balance labor and machine capacity.

Learn to create a statistical work center and group it into a work center hierarchy, then evaluate capacity with the work center load and hierarchy-based capacity checks.

Explore the detailed capacity list in SAP PP-CRP, navigate capacity requirements, view orders, and display or print capacity data linked to production orders and stock requirements.

Navigate sap pp-crp capacity evaluation with the detailed capacity list, switch between standard overview and detailed views, sort by requirements, and add fields like operation and hours for deeper insights.

Explain how capacity requirements are calculated for each operation using work center formulas, determining labor and machine time.

Learn to set up SAP PP formulas, define formula keys and parameters, and implement standard values and origins to calculate machining requirements, using the Sep 0 0 6 example.

Learn how to set up formulas for capacity requirements planning in SAP PP, including machining and labor setups, operation splits, and using standard value keys and parameter IDs.

Apply capacity leveling methods in sap pp using the tabular planning table, including increasing capacity, alternative work centers, date shifting, sequence planning, external assignment, and partial order splitting.

Explore mass processing in capacity planning to handle large data sets by automatically dispatching orders for specific work centers weekly. Learn how dispatching, profiles, and midpoint scheduling determine capacity levels.

Explore the tabular capacity planning table structure, focusing on the resource and requirements sections, work centers, capacity, capacity load, and dispatch details to understand capacity planning in sap pp-crp.

Explore the tabular capacity planning table in SAP PP CRP, switch display types to view resource capacity and requirements, and analyze available capacity, scheduled capacity, and date-based periods.

Learn how dispatching fixes an operation when capacity is available, and follow dispatching procedure and variants from manual to automatic scheduling and forward or backward planning in capacity requirements planning.

Demonstrate automatic and manual dispatching in SAP PP capacity requirements planning using the tabular capacity planning table, applying a variant to select bottleneck resources, adjust dates, and review planning logs.

Learn how to configure work centers, strategy profiles, and time profiles for capacity planning, assess overload, and find available capacity or reschedule when constraints arise.

Navigate the tabular capacity planning table to select bottleneck resources and enable scheduling indicators, then configure overload thresholds and the time and strategy profiles for SAP PP infinity scheduling.

Explore capacity leveling profiles in sap pp, focusing on the time profile that controls data scope and capacity planning.

Copy Sleepytime profile in SAP PP capacity planning and define PDA and planning periods using calendar month or days, with start and finish dates tied to the quit date.

Explore how to manage available capacity in SAP PP by defining standard capacity and intervals, adjusting shifts, breaks, and capacity versions for machine and labor in the work center.

Create available capacity intervals for a work center, define shift definitions and shift sequences, and build corresponding work schedules. Learn to assign these sequences to intervals and interpret capacity utilization.

Explore the planning table structure with a resource chart for work centers and a capacity chart for orders. Explore the table and diagram sections for each part, with stock data.

Explore SAP PP capacity requirements planning's graphical table and its structure, including work center and orders charts, accessed via logistics and variants, with table and diagram sections for capacity leveling.

Discover the overall profile structure used in capacity planning, including nine profiles and their roles in tabular and graphical planning tables, with custom profiles and the overall profile track function.

Dispatch operations using the graphical planning table and strategy profile settings to define a planning strategy, manage lead time scheduling, and apply setup time optimization for efficient capacity planning.

Navigate the graphical planning table to select and dispatch multiple operations together, and configure the strategy profile to close gaps and view capacity requirements across time axes.

Explore midpoint scheduling in capacity planning within SAP PP, comparing lead time scheduling and dispatching of one or multiple operations, using a painting operation as a practical example.