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Allocate your materials, personnel, and machinery with SAP S/4HANA! This comprehensive guide will show you how to configure production planning in SAP S/4HANA for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing. Then run those processes using step-by-step instructions. Master production workflows, like batch management, S&OP, demand management, PP-DS, and MRP. With industry examples throughout, this guide is your one-stop shop for PP with SAP S/4HANA!

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... Acknowledgments ... 27

... Preface ... 29

... Goals of This Book ... 30

... Target Audience ... 30

... Structure and Content ... 31

Part I ... Core Production Planning Concepts ... 35

1 ... Introduction to Production Planning with SAP S/4HANA ... 37

1.1 ... Production Planning and Control ... 38

1.2 ... Comparison Table of Production Types ... 50

1.3 ... SAP Integrated Business Planning ... 55

1.4 ... Summary ... 57

2 ... Organizational Structure in SAP ... 59

2.1 ... Breaking Down the Structure into Units ... 59

2.2 ... SAP Calendar ... 68

2.3 ... Summary ... 72

Part II ... Production Planning Configuration ... 73

3 ... Discrete Manufacturing Configuration ... 75

3.1 ... Material Master ... 76

3.2 ... Bill of Materials ... 78

3.3 ... Work Center ... 84

3.4 ... Routing ... 95

3.5 ... Production Order Configuration ... 97

3.6 ... Order Type-Dependent Plant Parameters ... 101

3.7 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 106

3.8 ... Default Values for the Generation of Operations ... 109

3.9 ... Availability Check ... 110

3.10 ... Scheduling ... 116

3.11 ... Reduction Strategy ... 121

3.12 ... Confirmation ... 122

3.13 ... Reason for Variances ... 130

3.14 ... Trigger Points ... 132

3.15 ... Define Print Control ... 132

3.16 ... Background Jobs ... 133

3.17 ... Summary ... 134

4 ... Process Manufacturing Configuration ... 135

4.1 ... Master Data in Process Industries ... 136

4.2 ... Order Type-Dependent Parameters ... 139

4.3 ... Production Scheduling Profile ... 143

4.4 ... Process Management ... 144

4.5 ... Process Messages ... 149

4.6 ... Process Instruction Category ... 155

4.7 ... Control Recipe/Process Instruction Sheets ... 173

4.8 ... Background Jobs ... 177

4.9 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 179

4.10 ... Summary ... 182

5 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Configuration ... 183

5.1 ... Repetitive Manufacturing Profile ... 184

5.2 ... Scheduling Planned Orders ... 196

5.3 ... Display ... 197

5.4 ... Material Staging ... 199

5.5 ... Global Settings for Confirmation and the Logistics Information System ... 200

5.6 ... Operational Methods Sheet ... 201

5.7 ... Summary ... 202

Part III ... Production Planning Workflows ... 203

6 ... Production Planning for Discrete Manufacturing ... 205

6.1 ... Process Overview ... 206

6.2 ... Master Data ... 207

6.3 ... Production Order Management ... 246

6.4 ... Release Production Order ... 266

6.5 ... Printing ... 269

6.6 ... Material Withdrawal ... 272

6.7 ... Confirmation ... 279

6.8 ... Goods Receipt ... 286

6.9 ... Postprocessing ... 289

6.10 ... Settlement and Completion ... 291

6.11 ... Additional Functions and Information Systems ... 293

6.12 ... Summary ... 298

7 ... Production Planning for Process Manufacturing ... 299

7.1 ... Process Manufacturing Overview ... 300

7.2 ... Master Data in Process Manufacturing ... 302

7.3 ... Characteristics ... 312

7.4 ... Process Management ... 316

7.5 ... Process Order Execution ... 330

7.6 ... Process Management in Action ... 332

7.7 ... Execution Steps ... 343

7.8 ... Process Messages Evaluation ... 357

7.9 ... Process Manufacturing Cockpit ... 359

7.10 ... Summary ... 360

8 ... Production Planning for Repetitive Manufacturing ... 361

8.1 ... Overview ... 362

8.2 ... Master Data ... 365

8.3 ... Material Requirements Planning in REM ... 387

8.4 ... Planning Table ... 390

8.5 ... Material Staging ... 401

8.6 ... Production List ... 405

8.7 ... Confirmation ... 407

8.8 ... Reversals and Scrap ... 417

8.9 ... Costing Activities (Cost Object Controlling) ... 422

8.10 ... Heijunka ... 424

8.11 ... Reporting ... 425

8.12 ... Summary ... 427

Part IV ... Production Planning Tools ... 429

9 ... Batch Management ... 431

9.1 ... Batch Management Overview ... 431

9.2 ... Batch

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