Audience:

• Solution Consultants responsible for implementing Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing with SAP SCM.

Objectives:

• Discuss the concepts and business processes in the various planning areas and the manufacturing approaches in SAP SCM.
• Configure and implement SAP master data in the area of planning and manufacturing (including transfer to SAP APO).
• Implement production planning with the help of SAP R/3 Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and SAP APO Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS).

Content:

• SAP Business Suite Overview
  - Overview of Supply Chain Planning:
  - Demand Planning (APO DP)
  - Supply Network Planning (APO SNP)
  - Material Requirements Planning (R/3 MRP)
  - Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (APO PP/DS)
• Overview of the various types of production:
  - Order-controlled production with production orders and process orders
  - Project-oriented production with production lots
  - Period-oriented production with repetitive manufacturing
  - KANBAN
• Maintenance and configuration of SAP master data:
  - Material master
  - Bills of material, overview of variant configuration
  - Work center
  - Routing
  - Production resources/tools
  - Change with and without history, mass change
  - Integration of master data between SAP R/3 and SAP SCM (APO): Architecture of integration, selection and transfer of master data as initial data transfer and change transfer
  - Corresponding Customizing settings
• Program planning (DM):
  - Maintaining planned independent requirements
  - Calculating planned independent requirements with sales orders, dependent on various strategies for make-to-stock production and make- to-order production
• Production planning in SAP R/3:
  - Creating procurement proposals (planned orders, purchase requisitions) with the help of SAP R/3 Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and SAP R/3 Master Production Scheduling (MPS)
• Production planning in SAP APO
  - Creating procurement proposals with the help of SAP APO Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) as simultaneous material planning and capacity planning (finite planning) or infinite planning
  - Period-oriented planning in the product planning table
• Processing the planning results
• Corresponding Customizing settings
• Overview of SAP implementation tool Solution Manager
• Review and certification preparation