SAP PP Production Planning Mastery: Deep Dive into Business

Explain how Glass+ structures its SAP landscape across Germany, Belgium, and France, detailing the client, company, plant, production sites, storage locations, and the logistic organizational unit.

Raw materials arrive and are blended with cullet, sand, soda, milestones, and additives, fused at about 1500°C, blown into molds, annealed, surface-treated, quality-checked, then palletized for shipment.

Immerse yourself in sap pp production planning as you guide Thomas through confirming production orders, tracking time and raw material consumption, and advancing to more complex processes.

Explore the Toulouse glass production plant and its sections, and how each section uses SAP capacity planners and schedulers to manage workload against the production plan.

Explore the manufacturing process across discrete, process, and repetitive production in GLASS+, from warehouse raw materials to operator actions in a manufacturing order, yielding finished glass bottles for customers.

Discover how an SAP production order is created, printed, and executed, detailing header data, order type YBM1, plant 1710, and the operation sequence from mixing cullet to furnace.

Learn to view and manage production order operations, including ten-by-ten operation numbers, short and long operation texts, status, component assignment, and work centers such as mixing01, furnac01, and molding01.

Explore the SAP components list from the production order by using the components overview to view required raw materials and their quantities for each operation.

Explains how a mixing operator completes first five production order operations, confirms each step, and consumes raw materials via good issue, picking list, or backflush, with final or partial confirmations.

Learn to confirm production orders in SAP GUI with CO03 and CO11N, handle time tickets, partial or final confirmations, and backflushing consumption at the mixing work center.

Learn how to confirm a production order operation in the Fiori app, compare with SAP GUI, record time tickets, partial or final confirmations, yields, scrap, and worker hours.

Thomas earns a promotion to line manager in the surface treatment section, taking on complex SAP tasks by leveraging his experience as a production operator end user at GLASS+ France.

Define the glass jar as a finished product in SAP, build its bill of materials and operations, and establish the routing, production version, work centers, and batch management.

Create and inspect a new glass jar material in SAP using MM01 and MM03, exploring basic data, MRP, and costing views for the finished product.

Create, modify, and display a material bill of materials in SAP for the finished glass jar N98 using CS01, CS02, and CS03, including raw materials and BOM usage for production.

Create a SAP work center in plant 1710 Glass+ France using CR01, assign it as a machine with capacity planning, a PD01 control key, and a cost center, then save.

Create routing for a product by entering the material and plant, define operations with work centers and control keys, and save to link the BOM with the production version.

Create production versions in SAP, linking bill of materials to routings to generate production orders, and perform consistency checks using C223.

Explore how to monitor and manage production versions in SAP S/4HANA using the Fiori 'manage production versions' app, with filters for material, plant, MRP controller, and other fields.

Create a production order for glass jar using direct creation with transaction C001, assign make to stock order type YBM1, define quantity, routing, BOM, and perform availability checks before release.

Learn to print a production order as a pdf for the production worker by accessing CO02/CO03 or COOIS and reviewing the operations and components such as cullet and sand.

Explore SAP status management for production orders and other objects, using system statuses like REL and PRT, and configurable user statuses to filter, sort, and view detailed status information.

Explore how to perform a good issue in Migo to consume jar cover materials for a production order, directing costs to the relevant operation and recording a material document.

Perform a good receipt for ten finished glass jar N98 units from the production order using MIGO, then check stock in MMBE and confirm location 171A.

Thomas is promoted to a production planner at GLASS+ as of January 1st, expanding his cross-sectional role. His SAP software proficiency will drive productivity and efficiency in his new duties.

Explore the supply chain overview for SAP PP production planning, tracing forecast management and S&OP, demand management, material requirements planning (MRP), and capacity planning to ensure timely production and supply.

Learn how SAP forecasting predicts demand from past consumption for raw materials and finished products. Use models such as constant, trend, and seasonal, set period indicators, and apply plant-specific forecasts.

Study forecast management and planning using standard S&OP and flexible planning to finalize the glass jar production plan for 110,000 sales with a May peak of 16,000, transferring as PIR.

Learn how standard S&OP balances sales and production by using SAP's standard S&OP feature (with MC87) to create forecasts, set target stock levels, and align demand management through make-to-stock planning.

Demand management guides production planners to balance demand with timely availability, reducing replenishment times and storage costs through make-to-order or make-to-stock strategies.

Learn how to transfer S&OP forecast results into demand management as planned independent requirements, view and edit PIRs with MD61/MD62, and monitor them in MD04 before MRP creates planned orders.

MRP integrates demand management with supply proposals to meet production and external needs. It uses lead times, lot sizes, safety stock, and replenishment rules to generate planned and production orders.

Explore the four MRP views of the material master in SAP MM02, detailing MRP types, controllers, lot size, procurement, backflush, safety stock, forecast management, consumption modes, and production versions.

Learn to run MRP in SAP with MD01 and MD01N (MRP live), review stock and PIRs with MD04, and generate planned orders for glass jar N98 in plant 1710.

Learn to convert planned orders to production orders using the Fiori 'convert plant orders to production orders' app and the MD04 stock/requirements view, guided by MRP and PIR-driven planning.

Batch management defines material quantity by batch-specific characteristics that drive usage and movement. Batches auto-create at raw material reception and at production receipts, capturing opacity as a quality.

Activate batch management for a material in the SAP PP material master, assign a batch characteristic via classification, then perform good receipt with MIGO and review batch stock in MMBE.

Check work center capacity in CR03 and configure the available capacity. Use CM01 to review weekly capacity and avoid overload with production orders.

Learn to perform a costing run in SAP using CK40N to set and analyze material costs for glass jar N98, including selecting materials, costing analysis, unlocking, and marking.

Learn to use the production cost analysis Fiori app to monitor total actual costs by plant and material, and review cost components such as material consumption and machine time.

Demonstrates managing work center capacity with the SAP Fiori app Manage Work Center Capacity, compares Mixing01 and Mixing02, and visualizes utilization to address overload and smooth production, unlike CM01.

Learn how to manage production orders in SAP using COOIS to filter, view, and sort orders by material, plant, order type, status, and dates, then export to Excel.

Explore the Fiori manage stock app to view unrestricted use stock by plant and storage location. Cullet shows 996 kg available at 1710/171A, with no blocked or in-inspection stock.

Explore single material stock and multiple stock materials in SAP Fiori, viewing stock by plant and storage location with unrestricted, quality inspection, and blocked stock, and stock history.

Explore SAP PP stock management and missing parts analysis with CO24 to identify material shortages for cullet, using plant and date filters and exporting results to Excel.

Explore the Fiori monitor material coverage app to analyze stock availability and future material shortages for planned and future orders, filter by material and plant, and visualize shortage timelines.

Explore the SAP Fiori Scrap Reason application to analyze scrap and rework by work center, with time filters from 2019 to 2023, and reason codes to drive waste reduction.

Complete your training and solidify your knowledge of the SAP production planning module. Decide whether to advance to an SAP consultant role by pursuing our configuration and customizing training.