Change Record in S4HANA – A New Look to ECR/ECO in S4HANA

PLM Quality Management (QM), MAN Production Planning (PP), PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

As most of the folks are aware of the ECR and ECO functionality for the change Management for the BOM, Master recipe, Material Master etc. This functionality was phased out in S4/HANA, and Engineering Record was introduced. This too had some things missing like analyzing the impact etc., so from HANA 2020 SAP introduced Change […]

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Baseline SAP PP Configuration Steps

MAN Production Planning (PP), SAP PP

Purpose: Purpose of this blogpost for understanding about baseline SAP PP Configuration steps of S4Hana, this blog consists of a comprehensive configuration screenshots of Production Planning, based on SAP S4Hana. Use: Baseline SAP PP configuration to execute manufacturing transactions for business run without any hassle. The configuration steps have mappings to corresponding menu path to […]

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Crate Part Replenishment with POSC-Pick, Pack & Stage to PSA

SAP Extended Warehouse Management, EWM - Goods Movement, EWM - Interfaces, MAN Production Planning (PP), SAP S/4HANA

Objective: Determination of Crate Part Replenishment separate Item types in PMR document in EWM Determination of PSA bin from /SCWM/PSASTAGE table when HUs are closed from Packing Work center instead of hard coding PSA bins at WPT Synopsis: When manufacturing order is released having the BOM components, EWM system should be able to determine dynamically […]

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Step by step introduction to set up and run a SAP PP Long Term Planning Scenario.

MAN Production Planning (PP), SAP HANA

SAP PP Long Term Planning (LTP) Overview Long-term planning (LTP) Is SAP PP procedure in which the simulative MRP run is used by production planners to compare various production scenarios concerning material requirement, vendor availability, and capacity planning for all materials listed in the Bill Of Materials (BOM). Using LTP, planners are able to establish […]

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Mass Routing Upload program

MAN Production Planning (PP)

Introduction LSMW and LTMC are weak on complexity of routing. Component allocation, PRT assignment, etc. is hard to manage with these standart tools. Therefore i developped a flexible program that you can upload a whole excel with multiple sheets at once. Details In the selection screen below, you can map your excel details. Your excel […]

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Convert Repetitive Manufacturing into Discrete Manufacturing Process

MAN Production Planning (PP), MM (Materials Management), PLM Quality Management (QM), SAP S/4HANA, MAN Material Requirements Planning

Below are the important steps to convert repetitive manufacturing processes into discrete manufacturing processes: Delete all the unnecessary demand and run MRP. So that all the open planned orders will be deleted from the system. Finish all the production bookings in MFBF, so that there’s no more cancellation. Ensure all the reprocessing records are processed […]

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Predictive Material and resource planning (pMRP) in S/4 HANA 1909

MAN Production Planning (PP)

Predictive Material and resource planning(pMRP) is a new functionality available in S/4 HANA 1909. It helps planners to identify capacity issues and solve them early in the planning process. The goal of predictive material and resource planning is to identify potential capacity issues and to evaluate possible solutions as early as possible based on a […]

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Downtime and PM order integration with SAP PPDS

MAN Production Planning (PP)

Introduction While executing detailed scheduling, maintenance of machines often must be taken into consideration, so that the production schedule can be as accurate as possible. However, a machine or work center can be down for multiple reasons and not just maintenance. Some of them are specified below- Preventive maintenance Breakdown Unavailability of material or labor […]

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