Production Planning and Control With Sap Erp - Hardcover

Akhtar, Jawad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592298680 ISBN 13: 9781592298686

Publisher: Sap Pr America, 2013

Synopsis

Whether your company uses discrete, process, or repetitive manufacturing, this book is here to break down the different production planning processes that you can use in SAP ERP. You'll learn the elements that are common to each process, and then explore the detailed configuration steps for each type of manufacturing approach. Use the expert tips throughout the book to increase the effectiveness of your supply chain, and save time and money.

*Find in-depth information on discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing types
*Work with detailed configuration steps and the business processes to tie everything together
*Understand the tools you need to optimize your PP processes and how to use them

Configuration Basics
Learn what discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing are, and then set them up in your SAP ERP system.

Production Type Workflow
After configuration, you'll understand how to tweak your system to meet your specific business processes and discover which production type works best for your needs.

System Optimization
Understand the extras that SAP provides. Make the PP component yours by adding notes, signature requirements, and co-products and by-products to your processes.

*SAP Demand Management
*Long-term planning
*Material requirements planning
*Digital signature
*Shift notes and reports
*Early Warning System
*Forecasting
*XSteps
*Flexible planning

About this title

About the Author

Jawad Akhtar is the author of the SAP PRESS book "Production Planning and Control with SAP ERP," which covers discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing types and methods, functionality, and tools to optimize business processes. Jawad earned his Chemical Engineering degree from Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA. He has 17 years of professional experience, of which 9 years are in SAP. He has completed eight end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles in the areas of PP, QM, MM, PM, and DMS in the steel, automobile, chemical, fertilizer, FMCG, and building products industries. He also has worked as an SAP Integration Manager and SAP Project Manager, and has been proactively involved in a business development and solution architect role for seven years. Jawad is an experienced and prolific writer in the logistics and SCM space and is the SCM technical advisor for SAPexperts.com, ERPtips.com, and SearchSAP.com.

His profile on LinkedIn is at pk.linkedin.com/in/jawadakhtar. You may follow him on Twitter @jawadahl.

From the Back Cover

* Find in-depth information on discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing types
* Work with detailed configuration steps and the business processes to tie everything together
* Understand the tools you need to optimize your PP processes and how to use them

Cars. Ice cream. Paint. With this book, you'll understand how to manage products of varying complexity with the main production planning types. Learn how to set up the discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing production types in your SAP ERP system, and then explore a variety of planning methods, optimizing tools, integration options, and more that will help you meet any business requirement.

Configuration Basics
Learn what discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing are, and set them up in your SAP ERP system.
Production Type Workflow
After configuration, understand how to tweak your system to meet your specific business processes and discover which production type works best for your needs.
Workflow Tools
Get to know the tools that SAP provides to help manage your planning for demand, sales and operations, material requirements, and more.
Optimize our System
Understand the "extras" that SAP gives you. Make the PP component yours by adding notes, signature requirements, and co-products and by-products to your processes.
Monitoring and Reports
Don't leave things to chance--set up optimal reporting and the Early Warning System to make sure your processes are running smoothly.
Highlights

• SAP Demand Management
• Long-Term Planning
• Material requirements planning
• Digital signature
• Shift notes and reports
• Early Warning System
• Document Management System
• Integration with SAP ERP components
• Forecasting
• XSteps (Execution Steps)
• Flexible planning
• Process Management

From the Inside Flap

Contents at a Glance

PART I Production Planning Core Concepts

1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 31

2 Organizational Structures in SAP ERP .......................................................... 37

PART II Configuration Specifics for Manufacturing Types

3 Configuration Basics of Discrete Manufacturing ........................................... 73

4 Configuration Basics of Process Manufacturing ............................................ 133

5 Configuration Basics of Repetitive Manufacturing ........................................ 181

PART III Production Planning Workflow by Production Type

6 Production Planning for Discrete Manufacturing ......................................... 203

7 Production Planning for Process Industries .................................................. 299

8 Production Planning for Repetitive Manufacturing ...................................... 361

PART IV Production Planning Workflow Tools

9 Sales and Operations Planning .................................................................... 429

10 SAP Demand Management ......................................................................... 505

11 Material Requirements Planning ................................................................. 529

12 Long-Term Planning (LTP) ........................................................................... 617

PART V Optimizing Production Planning

13 Special Procurement Types ......................................................................... 647

14 Capacity Requirements Planning ................................................................. 675

15 Classification ............................................................................................... 719

16 Engineering Change Management ............................................................... 735

17 Co-Products and By-Products in Production Processes ................................ 769

18 Shift Notes and Shift Reports ...................................................................... 789

19 Document Management System (DMS) ....................................................... 823

20 Digital Signature ......................................................................................... 857

PART VI Monitoring and Evaluation

21 Early Warning System ................................................................................. 877

22 Reporting in SAP ......................................................................................... 897

23 Further Integration of Production Planning with Logistics Functions ........... 949

Edition details

• Publisher: Sap Pr America
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592298680
• ISBN 13: 9781592298686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1033