SAP PP Production Planning : Customizing

Learn how SAP PP uses a client, company, plant, and storage location structure to manage Glass Plus's sites in Germany, Belgium, and France, covering production, purchasing, and quality.

Glass bottles start with cullet, sand, soda, and additives; the blend fuses at 1500°C, forms by blow molding, then anneals, surface-treats, and passes quality control for shipment.

Explore the Toulouse glass plant's sections—from compounding to quality control—and how SAP PP uses capacity planners and schedulers to manage each section's workload and timing.

Follow Thomas’s journey as he joins the Glass Plus SAP team, moving from production to SAP PP, guided by Didier and Paul, and contributing to the Spain implementation.

Discover how sap customizing maps and aligns production planning in sap pp, defining work centers, schedules, materials, and costing methods to optimize inventory, quality, and efficiency.

Demonstrates resolving a production order creation error caused by a material deletion flag by reproducing the issue in CO01, removing the flag with MM06, and confirming CO01 succeeds.

Diagnose and fix sap production posting errors by verifying the current period with mmrv, opening the new period with mmpv, and completing a migo good receipt against a production order.

Enter planned hours for mixing operations in the production order’s standard values so CM01 accurately reflects three hours of requirements in week 52.

Fix an error creating a production order for a new material in SAP S/4HANA by creating a production version with routing and BOM, then generate the order.

Explore solving a printing error in SAP PP Production Planning by releasing a created production order (CRTD) and configuring OPK8 printer settings to enable printing after order updates.

Diagnose a production worker's authorization error by analyzing SAP roles with SU01 and SUIM, then grant CO01 access to enable production order creation.

Learn how to remove a mistaken production order in SAP. Activate the deletion flag and deletion indicator, archive with CO78, then delete archived data and verify with CO03.

Thomas advances to a senior SAP consultant role and leads the SAP PP module rollout for Glass+ in Spain, configuring and customizing the system to support glass production planning.

Configure organizational data in SAP using SPRO to define the company and plant, assign plant to company code, and define storage locations for raw materials, spare parts, and finished products.

Configure production order types in SAP PP for make to stock, harmonize order data with SPRO and shop floor control, and assign YBM1 to a number range for consistent processing.

Configure order type dependent parameters in SAP PP to control planning, cost management, and procurement for production orders, including plant 2410 glass plus Spain and the YBM1 make-to-stock type.

Configure the production scheduling profile for discrete manufacturing in sap pp, defining automatic actions on creation and release, printing, and automatic goods receipts for make-to-stock plants.

Define the production supervisor for discrete manufacturing in plant 2410, assign the YB0001 scheduling profile for make to stock valuated, and set up the availability check rules, scope, and group.

Configure availability control in sap pp by defining checking rules for order creation and release, setting scope and checking groups, and mapping them to materials and plant 2410.

Define and customize scheduling parameters for production orders in sap pp by configuring scheduling type (backward, forward, current date) and capacity requirements for accurate order creation.

Define confirmation parameters in SAP PP customizing (shop floor control > confirmations) for plant 2410 and YBM1 make-to-stock, configuring no HR update, time unit defaults, and backflushing.

Configure scheduling margins in SAP PP by selecting margin keys in MRP two view to define opening period, float after production, float before production, and release period for production orders.

Explore configuring control keys for operations in SAP PP, including defining keys for production and maintenance orders, enabling scheduling, printing, external processing, and confirmation within routing data and MRP configuration.

Master MRP configuration by defining MRP type, MRP controller, MRP group, and MRP area in SAP PP, viewable via Spro configuration.

Define reasons for variances to justify differences between confirmed and planned quantities, such as machine malfunctions or operator errors. Configure SAP SPRO for plant 2410 glass Spain to enable analytics.

Set up a background job in SAP PP via SM36 to automatically print production orders using PPPRBSEL, with a plant-specific selection variant for 2410 Glass Plus Spain and off-peak scheduling.

Test sap pp configuration by validating material master and mrp settings, then execute a make-to-stock production order, confirm, and post goods receipt to update stock.

Advance from junior consultant to project manager by leveraging standard SAP PP features to meet business needs, and explore batch determination, material staging, tool management, and flexible planning configuration.

Batch determination in SAP PP automatically selects production batches based on predefined criteria, ensuring VinDeLuxe bottles are produced exclusively from the valley of crystals sand for their premium glass.

Configure automatic batch number determination for sand in make-to-order production by defining condition tables, access sequences, and sort rules in SPRO, then create the batch search strategy.

Configure a batch classification with sand source type for the material, then use the batch determination feature and batch cockpit to auto-select and verify batches for production.

Enable batch derivation by copying sand origin from a sender batch to a receiver bottle batch, delivering precise traceability and a story of origin for VinDeLuxe.

Activate and configure batch derivation in SAP, define derivation events, set number ranges, and establish sender/receiver condition tables, access sequences, strategy types, search procedures for sand to glass bottle.

Execute the batch derivation feature in sap pp customization to transfer the sand source classification from raw material sand to the finished product glass bottle x one, validating batch 18.

Activate the wm-pp interface for warehouse G17 and configure the production scheduling profile with wm transfer requirement at order release, then set up the supply area and control cycle.

Execute material staging in SAP with WM management, perform good receipt via MIGO, create and confirm transfer orders (LT04, LT12), and link to production order CO02 for batched sand.

Demonstrate how PRT production resources and tools track mold serial numbers, monitor cycle-based lifespans for blow molding molds, and configure tooling objects in sap pp production planning.

Configure serial numbers to manage mold serialization by creating serial number profiles (0001 for PRT tooling), assigning serialization procedures (MMSL, PPAU, PPRL), and linking material receiving to automatic equipment creation.

Learn to configure serial number profiles for serialized materials in SAP PP, create a mold as a production resource tool, and post a good receipt with MIGO.

Configure the PRT production resources and tools by defining the equipment category, assigning a number range, and setting up formula parameters and formulas to increment usage per operation confirmation.

Configure the PRT feature with a usage counter for the mold and follow a complete SAP PP workflow from serial data creation to counter initialization and final operation confirmations.

Celebrate reaching this milestone in your basic SAP training and prepare for the SAP PP advanced training to master advanced production module features through continuous learning.