Production Planning and Control with SAP ERP

... Foreword ... 13

1 ... Introduction ... 15
... 1.1 ... Goal of This Book ... 15
... 1.2 ... Target Audience ... 16
... 1.3 ... Structure and Content ... 16
... 1.4 ... Restrictions ... 17

2 ... Tasks in Industrial Operations ... 19
... 2.1 ... Technical Tasks ... 19
... 2.2 ... Business Tasks ... 35
... 2.3 ... The Production Area in Industrial Operations ... 45
... 2.4 ... Characteristics of Production Type Creation ... 52

3 ... Production Planning and Control in SAP ERP ... 59
... 3.1 ... PP in the Context of SAP ERP ... 59
... 3.2 ... Processes in Production Planning and Control ... 62
... 3.3 ... Production Types ... 64

4 ... Organizational Structures ... 79
... 4.1 ... Meaning of Organizational Structures ... 79
... 4.2 ... Organizational Structure Overview in SAP ERP ... 81
... 4.3 ... Planners in Design and Work Scheduling ... 86
... 4.4 ... MRP Controller, Capacity Planner, and Production Scheduler ... 87

5 ... Master Data ... 91
... 5.1 ... Master Data Overview ... 91
... 5.2 ... Material ... 92
... 5.3 ... BOM ... 100
... 5.4 ... Work Center ... 112
... 5.5 ... Routing ... 129

6 ... Sales and Operations Planning ... 147
... 6.1 ... Process Overview ... 147
... 6.2 ... Basic Technical Principles in Sales Planning ... 154
... 6.3 ... Planning Table ... 170
... 6.4 ... Forecast ... 185
... 6.5 ... Event ... 191
... 6.6 ... Resource Leveling Using a Rough-Cut Planning Profile ... 194
... 6.7 ... Transferring Planning Data to Demand Management ... 198
... 6.8 ... Mass Processing ... 200

7 ... Demand Management ... 205
... 7.1 ... Process Overview ... 205
... 7.2 ... Time-Based Disaggregation ... 209
... 7.3 ... Planning Strategy ... 211
... 7.4 ... Editing Planned Independent Requirements ... 221

8 ... Material Requirements Planning ... 225
... 8.1 ... Process Overview ... 225
... 8.2 ... Influencing Factors in Material Requirements Planning ... 230
... 8.3 ... MRP Procedures ... 246
... 8.4 ... Executing Material Requirements Planning ... 262
... 8.5 ... Scheduling ... 272
... 8.6 ... Procurement Proposals ... 280
... 8.7 ... Analysis ... 285
... 8.8 ... Plant Parameters and MRP Group ... 290

9 ... Special Forms of Procurement ... 295
... 9.1 ... Process Overview ... 295
... 9.2 ... Phantom Assemblies ... 297
... 9.3 ... Direct Production and Direct Procurement ... 300
... 9.4 ... Stock Transfer ... 309
... 9.5 ... Withdrawal from Alternative Plant ... 313
... 9.6 ... Production in Alternative Plant ... 314
... 9.7 ... Subcontracting ... 317
... 9.8 ... Consignment ... 322

10 ... Long-Term Planning ... 323
... 10.1 ... Process Overview ... 323
... 10.2 ... Planning Scenario ... 325
... 10.3 ... Executing Long-Term Planning ... 331

11 ... Production Order Creation ... 337
... 11.1 ... Process Overview ... 337
... 11.2 ... Production Order ... 339
... 11.3 ... Conversion from the Planned Order ... 357
... 11.4 ... Interactive Production Order Creation ... 359
... 11.5 ... Scheduling ... 361
... 11.6 ... Availability Check ... 379

12 ... Capacity Planning ... 389
... 12.1 ... Process Overview ... 389
... 12.2 ... Capacity Requirements and Capacity Evaluation ... 390
... 12.3 ... Checking Capacity Availability ... 400
... 12.4 ... Finite Scheduling ... 406
... 12.5 ... Dispatching ... 408
... 12.6 ... Capacity Planning Table ... 426

13 ... Production Execution ... 433
... 13.1 ... Process Overview ... 433
... 13.2 ... Releasing the Production Order ... 434
... 13.3 ... Material Withdrawal ... 438
... 13.4 ... Confirmation ... 446
... 13.5 ... Goods Receipt ... 452
... 13.6 ... Settlement ... 456
... 13.7 ... Completion ... 457

14 ... Supply Chain Management and Integration with SAP APO ... 459
... 14.1 ... Supply Chain Management with SAP APO ... 459
... 14.2 ... Integration Scenarios ... 462
... 14.3 ... Technical Integration ... 464

... Appendices ... 469
... A ... Glossary ... 471
... B ... List of Abbreviations ... 501
... C ... Literature ... 503
... D ... List of Transactions ... 507
... E ... The Authors ... 517

... Index ... 519