SAP Production Planning (SAP PP)

Production Planning consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Plan to Produce process. It includes the following information and processes:
  • Material Master, Bill of Material, Routing and Work Center data
  • Sales and Production Plans
  • Long Term Planning
  • Demand Management
  • Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
  • Capacity Planning
  • Production Orders
  • KANBAN
Diagram of the typical Plan to Produce business process associated with the SAP PP module:


SAP Production Planning (SAP PP) is compromised of the following modules:

  • Master Data - includes the material master, work centers, routings and bill of materials.
  • SOP - Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) provides the ability to forecast sales and production plans based on historical, current and future data.
  • DRP - Distribution Resource Planning allows companies the ability to plan the demand for distribution centers.
  • Production Planning - includes material forecasting, demand management, long term planning and master production scheduling (MPS).
  • MRP - Material Requirements Planning relies on demand and supply elements with the calculation parameters to calculate the net requirements from the planning run.
  • Shop Floor Control - includes the processing of production orders, goods movements, confirmations and reporting tools for production.
  • Capacity Planning - evaluates the capacity utilized based on the work centers available capacity to show capacity constraints.
  • Repetitive Manufacturing - in repetitive manufacturing, the manufacturing process is usually simple in that the same products are produced over a long period of time. This module provides the transactions and business process for companies to run repetitive manufacturing in SAP.
  • KANBAN - is a process of replenishment based on a pull system using KANBAN cards to generate the replenishment cycle.
  • Product Cost Planning - is the process of evaluating all the time values and value of component materials to determine the product cost.






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