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SAP PP Configurtion Guide: Step by Step

This document consists of a comprehensive configuration guides of Production Planning, based on SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 (ECC 6.0). The screenshots and menu paths are updated to the latest version.

  • Define Standard Value Key
  • Define Capacity Planner Group
  • Define Formula for Resource
  • Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
    • Carry Out Overall Maintenance of Plant Parameters
  • Maintain Master Data: Floats.
    • Maintained Planned Order: Conversion.
  • Maintained Planned Order: Dept Reqmt Availibility.
    • Defining BOM and Routing Selection
  • Activating MRP and Setting Up Planning File
  • Process Order
  • Define: Order Type
    • Define Order Type-Dependent Parameters
  • Availability Check
  • Define: Checking Rule
    • Define: Scope of check
    • Define: Checking Control
    • Define: Specify Scheduling Parameters
    • Define Availability of Stock in Transfer/Blocked Stock/Restricted
    • Defining Rescheduling Check
    • Defining Error Processing in Planning Run
    • Defining External Procurement
    • Defining Line Item Number
  • Confirmation
    • Defining Valuation of Goods Received
    • Planning Horizon for Plant
    • Defining Receipt Elements for Receipt Days’ Supply

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Beginner’s Guide to Variant Configuration in SAP (With a Sample Scenario)

This user manual provides the configuration guide and application of variant configuration in SAP Production Planning. Following procedures are covered in this guide:

  • Scenario
  • Configuration
    • Create Characteristics
    • Create Class
    • Creating a configurable material
    • Create a Super BOM
    • Create Configuration Profile
    • Assign Object Dependencies to the items in the Super BOM
    • Create Precondition and Selection Condition dependencies
    • Super Routing
    • Configuration Test T-Code CU50
  • Business Process
    • Sales Order
    • MRP Run
    • Creating Outbound Delivery
    • Creating Transfer Order for Delivery to pick the material

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SAP PP Presentation Set: Introduction to Basics

This slide based training set provides general information on the SAP Production Planning module, covering functionality and processes, followed by a detailed introduction to the most important master data objects.

  • Organizational Structure Overview of SAP PP Module
  • Manufacturing Methods in SAP PP: Discrete, Repetitive and Process Manufacturing Overview
  • Planning Strategies: Make to Order, Make to Stock, Planning with Final Assembly
  • PP Master Data Overview
  • Planning Process: SOP & Demand Management
  • Production Execution Overview
  • Production Planning Overview: MRP and Capacity Planning

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SAP PP MRP User Training Document

In SAP, MRP is run for generating Vendor Schedules. This document will show process in SAP for Production plan to material receive from vendors through SAP system. Though out the document, Production plan is prepared on the basis of exemplary delivery schedules with the following list of preparation steps:

  • Open Purchase Requisition: When we will run MRP old PR will be deleted automatically.
  • Open Purchase Orders: We will close old Purchase Orders.
  • Open Schedule Lines in Scheduling Agreements
  • Open Production Orders: All old unused Production Orders will be closed
  • Open Planned Orders: old Planned Orders will be closed
  • Reorganizing Independent Requirements
  • Independent Requirements reorganization
  • Recorg. Independent Requirements
  • Delete Planned Independent Requirements
  • Create (Planned Independent Requirements ) Production Plan in SAP System
  • and Finally run MRP with tcode MD02

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SAP PP: Step Wise End User Manual Set

The following set of SAP PP Guides provide instructions to end users for business processes of:

  • Capacity planning – [CM01]
  • Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
    • Display of a Sale Order – [VA03]
    • Multilevel BOM Explosion – [CS12]
    • Display of a Material’s Routing details – [CA03]
    • Converting an Engg BOM in to a Production BOM – [CS01]
  • Prerequisite for Material Requirement Planning (MRP)
    • Display of a WBS Element – [CJ20N]
    • Multilevel BOM Explosion – [CS12]
    • Display of a Material’s Routing details – [CA03]
    • Converting an Engg BOM in to a Production BOM – [CS01]
  • Production Order Creation – [CO40], [CO41]
  • Production order Confirmation – [CO11N]

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Stepwise Guide to Create BOM, Work Center and Routing in SAP PP

This training manual provides step by step instructions for creation of Material BOM, Work Center and Routing procedures in SAP Production Planning module.

  • Create Material BOM [CS01]
  • Create Work Centre [CR01]
  • Create Routing [CA01]

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Bill of Materials (BOM) in SAP PP: Beginners Guide

Bill of materials (BOM), which is specific to Production Planning (PP) module in SAP, is used to describe the list of parts of components needed to complete a saleable product.

This document describes the process of creating and changing a manufacturing Bill of Material in SAP with step by step instructions and screenshots.

By the end of this guide, you will be able to understand:

  • How the Bill of material is created in SAP [CS01]
  • How the Bill of Material Change the BOM [CS02]
  • How the Bill of Material Display the BOM [CS03]
  • How the Multi Level BOM is displayed [CS12]
  • How Multiple BOM are displayed [CS14]
  • How to display a particular component [CS15]
  • How a Mass BOM is Changed [CS20]

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