C_TS422: SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Manufacturing (PP)

SAP S/4HANA and manufacturing overview

• SAP S/4HANA architecture and simplifications
• SAP Fiori launchpad and SAP GUI navigation
• Plan-to-produce process overview
• Make-to-stock and make-to-order at a glance

• Lab: Navigate Fiori apps and SAP GUI transactions · 30 min

Organisational structure

• Company code, plant and storage location
• MRP areas
• Production scheduling profiles
• Assignment to sales and purchasing organisations

• Lab: Explore plant and MRP area settings · 35 min

Material master for production

• Material types and industry sectors
• MRP 1–4 views
• Work scheduling view
• Lot sizing and procurement types
• Safety stock and reorder point basics

• Lab: Create a finished good and components with MRP views · 50 min

Bills of material

• BOM categories and usage
• Item categories
• Alternative and variant BOMs overview
• BOM explosion and where-used
• Engineering change management basics

• Lab: Build a multi-level BOM · 45 min

Work centres

• Work centre categories
• Capacities and available capacity
• Formulas and standard value keys
• Cost centre assignment and activity types

• Lab: Create work centres with capacity and costing data · 40 min

Routings and production versions

• Routing structure and operations
• Control keys
• Component allocation
• Scheduling data
• Production versions

• Lab: Create a routing and production version · 50 min

Sales and operations planning concepts

• Planning hierarchy overview
• Rough-cut planning
• Transferring plans to demand management

Demand management

• Planned independent requirements
• Planning strategies (10, 20, 40 and others)
• Consumption modes and periods
• Customer requirements

• Lab: Create planned independent requirements with strategy 40 · 40 min

MRP Live on SAP HANA

• MRP procedures and planning file
• MRP Live run parameters
• Net requirements calculation and lot sizing
• Scheduling planned orders
• Exception messages

• Lab: Run MRP Live and analyse the stock/requirements list · 60 min

Evaluating planning results

• Monitor Material Coverage app
• Converting planned orders
• Purchase requisitions for external procurement
• Firming and planning time fence

Production order lifecycle

• Order types and order type-dependent parameters
• Creation from planned orders
• Scheduling and availability checks
• Release and printing

• Lab: Create and release a production order · 40 min

Shop-floor execution

• Goods issue and backflushing
• Confirmations
• Goods receipt for finished goods
• Order status management

• Lab: Confirm operations and post goods movements · 45 min

Capacity planning

• Capacity requirements and evaluation
• Capacity levelling and dispatching
• Fiori capacity apps
• Finite and infinite scheduling

• Lab: Evaluate and level capacity at a bottleneck work centre · 45 min

Process orders basics

• Process industry concepts
• Master recipes and resources
• Process order execution overview
• Comparison with discrete manufacturing

Repetitive manufacturing introduction

• Repetitive manufacturing profiles
• Run schedule quantities
• Planning table overview
• Backflush confirmations

• Lab: Post a repetitive manufacturing backflush · 35 min

Integration with MM and CO

• Goods movements and valuation
• Product cost planning link
• Order costs, WIP and variances
• Settlement to stock

• Lab: Settle a production order and review variances · 40 min

Exam readiness

• Topic area review
• Question styles
• Practice questions with review