Predictive Material Requirements Planning (SAP pMRP)
Capacity issues in an ever-changing demand environment are challenging in both planning and monitoring.
With the help of SAP pMRP, these problems are a thing of the past. Predictive Material and Resource Planning is a new SAP S/4HANA Cloud product for simulative and interactive long-term demand planning.
The aim is to identify any capacity problems as early as possible based on a specified demand for finished products and to identify possible solutions. The simulation calculates the demand for components, purchased parts as well as resources and thus provides production planners with a basis for decision-making when conditions change. For example, with regard to demand planning, shift schedules, prefabrication or make-or-buy decisions.
Take advantage of SAP pMRP
- Create an overview of your company's current and future needs at all levels of production
- Recognize capacity bottlenecks at an early stage and respond to them economically
- Take advantage of the fast adaptation options to your individual capacity situations
SAP pMRP functionalities
- Tabular overview of your requirements for the coming months
- KPIs for analyzing the current capacity situation
- Simulative adjustment of requirements to check your capacity situation
- Due to the bills of material, this is possible across all MRP levels
- Material forecasting:
- Checking the feasibility of forecasts incl. availability of capacities and suppliers
- Prevention of stock-outs during marketing campaigns
- Ensure that your company can respond optimally to a changing demand situation in the coming months!
- Based on the capacity data in your SAP system, you can create evaluations of the current and future (medium- to long-term) utilization of resources
- Overloads of one month can be displayed
- Simulation can be used to check the capacity situation for a changing demand situation
- Do we have the capacity to produce an additional 100 units?
- Capacity planning:
- Adaptation of shift programs or expansion of machine capacity
- Early communication with employees and manufacturing
- Preparation for expected production volume
- Respond optimally to unexpected demand situations and align your medium- and long-term planning accordingly
- Early detection of overloads allows production to be adjusted accordingly
- Proposals to bring forward requirements based on spare capacity slots.
- Consideration of alternative production versions so that production can be shifted to alternative production lines
- Capacity planning:
- Adaptation of shift programs or expansion of machine capacity
- Early communication with employees and manufacturing
- Preparation for expected production volume
- Overview of component requirements in the coming months
- Your needs at the component level become apparent
- Strategic Procurement:
- Renegotiation of contracts due to economies of scale apparent ahead of time
- Reduction of your purchasing costs
- Derivation of future component requirements
- Preparation of medium and long-term overview on component and purchase part level
- Improve collaboration with your suppliers
Future-oriented capacity planning with SAP pMRP
For companies in discrete manufacturing, the challenge is to identify capacity bottlenecks quickly and clearly. Valid monitoring of the decisive parameters with a view to inventory and capacity makes it possible at all to evaluate capacity utilization correctly. This is not only about the actual state, but also about planning reliability. Our CONSILIO Solution Video shows how you can achieve this security and map your capacities.
Avoid capacity bottlenecks and remain able to act. We are happy to support your company with the necessary project experience in preparing your master data, setting up your SAP pMRP and effectively training your employees.
Our services for you
- Our experts build individual planning scenarios for you
- CONSILIO trains your employees and prepares them for use
- Your master data is prepared by us so that it can be transferred without any problems
- We support your company in the use of SAP pMRP in the productive daily business
- Use our SAP pMRP Guide: a guide that walks you through pMRP, explains settings and configurations, and identifies possible sources of errors
SIMULATIVE AND INTERACTIVE DEMAND AND CAPACITY PLANNING UNDER S/4HANA | PMRP + DDMRP
In this presentation, you will receive an outline of the process and functional scope of pMRP and DDMRP, the S/4HANA cloud and on-premise products for simulative capacity and demand planning of assemblies and purchased parts. pMRP and DDMRP enable real-time planning, early detection of capacity bottlenecks and problem solving by means of interactive solution proposals.
Speakers: Philipp Schneider & Jonas Gropp, CONSILIO
IDENTIFY AND ELIMINATE CAPACITY BOTTLENECKS AT AN EARLY STAGE WITH SAP PREDICTIVE MATERIAL AND RESOURCE PLANNING
In this webinar with live demo, you will receive an exemplary presentation of the process and functional scope of pMRP, an S/4HANA Cloud and On-Premise product for simulative capacity and demand planning of assemblies and purchased parts. pMRP enables planning in real time, early detection of capacity bottlenecks and problem solving by means of interactive solution proposals.
