As a capacity planner, you must regularly obtain an overview of the capacity load of the work centers in your area of responsibility. To achieve this is necessary to identify overload situations at an early stage and be able to take appropriate measures. Under PP S/4HANA core, you can find new Fiori applications to be […]
MAN Production Planning (PP)
S/4HANA Planning for Components to be Provided in Subcontracting Process
Definition In subcontracting process, the subcontractor/vendor will be provided with materials (components), which he consumes to produce the finished product. We have to create MRP area for each subcontractor, If we want to plan provision of components for individual subcontractors separately from the usual requirements. In this blog we will be discussing about the below […]
PP/DS Step by Step Guide – Functional PP Process- Detailed scheduling in PPDS
Introduction: Are you bored of running capacity planning in addition to running the MRP live. Here is the way to avoid it by using the SAP PPDS which is now included in S/4 HANA itself. (Since 2016) System Architecture: Previously PPDS was with APO system which is separate from ECC (Like how we are logging […]
User Status Profiles: The Key to Effective Maintenance Order Management
Introduction: To guarantee seamless operations in SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), effective work order management is essential. SAP PM provides the idea of a User Status Profile to speed up the process and enforce control over order release. We will delve into the definition of User Status Profile, its importance in limiting order release, and how […]
Capacity leveling Overall profiles – Configuration
Introduction In order control profile – OPJK we will see the list of overall capacity profile under capacity avalilability check tab. By seeing that I thought this will do the capacity check and do the rescheduling the orders while creating the production order. But its not working in that way. System will only check the […]
Production Resource Tool Integration with PM & PP
Introduction: Production Resource Tools (PRT): You can create PRT with the following types: In a manufacturing industry, we keep using various tools during productions and these tools require maintenance to keep them usable. Maintenance of such tools normally depends on their usage in the production operation. These tools can be considered as Production Resource Tools […]
Rework Operation of ROS assign to Production Order using trigger point.
Trigger Point: SAP trigger point is an object, which is assigned to an operation in routing in order to trigger a certain function. We can trigger certain business functionality using SAP trigger points when an operation or a production order statuses are being changed. For example, we can trigger workflow to production manager when scrap […]
Handling unit in Production Planning – Step by Step guide
Purpose Here we will see how we can use the Handling unit in production planning. Handling unit is SAP term for packing materials in box. Creating HU will create data on packing materials in boxes Some times Production team will do the packing of materials in production area and ship it to warehouse. So we […]
Over delivery and Under delivery tolerance for Production/ Process order
Introduction: Most of us know the Over delivery and Under delivery tolerance use for Purchase Order. SAP has provided similar kind of function for Production/ Process order. I was unable to find the blog on this functionality so decided to make one. Here I will try to explain the use of Over delivery and Under […]
Rework Order creation for specific reason using trigger point
In SAP rework orders are created using trigger point. This blog present, creation of rework order with help of trigger point but we will be using reason for variance to create rework order. Status profile: A status profile contains the individual user statuses and the business transaction rules defined for those statuses. You can define […]