SAP-Production Planning

Training Details

An intensive 30 hours course covering the details of the major concepts in Production Planning.

This course is intended for current or future project members of SAP implementations. This course provides the basis related to all the modules and allows the team members to interact confidently with the implementation team and play a major role in design decisions.

This course is also intended for the current SCM consultants who have good experience in Supply chain side and have been involved in SAP implementations as Logistics/Supply chain / Technical consultants.

The course teaches the basic concepts of all the modules, the major transactions and the business functionality.

Pre-Requisites

  • An excellent background / exposure to Supply Chain/Logistics
  • Good knowledge of any ERP system - preferably SAP.


Course Contents

  1. SAP Overview
    • Introduction to SAP
    • Enterprise Structure
    • My-SAP SCM Suite of applications
    • Production Planning overview
  2. Master Data
    • Material Master
    • Work Centers
    • Bill of Materials
    • Routing
    • Production Versions
  3. Planning Strategies
    • Planning with final assembly
    • Planning without final assembly
    • Planning at assembly level
    • Net Requirements planning
    • Gross requirements planning
    • Make to order
    • Planning and Execution with Final Assembly
  4. Production Planning
    • Overview
    • Demand Management
    • Forecasting
    • Long-term Planning
    • Master Production Scheduling
    • MRP Run (MRP Types, Lot Sizing procedures, Safety Stock Planning etc.)
    • MRP Evaluations-Processing MRP Results
  5. Production Control
    • Planned Orders
    • Purchase requisitions
    • Planned order to Production order conversion.
    • Production orders
    • Order Types
    • Status Profiles
    • Scheduling
    • Costing
    • Reservations
  6. Production Execution
    • Order release
    • Goods Receipts and Goods issue
    • Material Staging.
    • Confirmations ( Partial confirmations, Final confirmations )
    • Order close
  7. Capacity Planning
    • Overview
    • Capacity definitions, Formulae and working time maintenance
    • Capacity requirements
    • Capacity analysis
    • Capacity levelling
    • Reporting
  8. Other Topics
    • Repetitive manufacturing
    • Process manufacturing
    • Kanban
    • Back Flushing
    • Logistics information system