SAP Production planning (SAP PP)
With the latest technologies and optimized processes, we accompany you on your way to transparent, lean and innovative production planning towards Manufacturing 4.0.
High flexibility, short delivery times with simultaneously assured delivery reliability: These are important success factors for manufacturing companies in order to prevail in the highly competitive global market.
In dynamic markets with short product life cycles, cross-plant production and supplier links, and high customer expectations, transparency and rapid response are becoming decisive target parameters. In order to be able to meet these requirements together with the associated cost control, flexible and at the same time efficiently designed process planning in production and manufacturing is required.
SAP PP functionalities
- Every company is as unique as the manufacturing processes and production types used
- SAP can be used to map mass, type and series production, as well as make-to-order and project production
- In addition, there are extensive functionalities for the process industry
- Depending on which of the above production types you choose, this will have an impact on your production logistics
- The most common types of production are discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, and repetitive manufacturing
- In addition to choosing the appropriate production type, one or more demand strategies must be identified and applied to your products
- A planning strategy is essentially used to plan your production quantities and dates
- SAP already delivers preset requirements strategies in the standard system, such as make-to-stock production or planning with/without final assembly
- If your wishes go beyond the standard, your own demand strategies can be implemented
- The basic data for obtaining a reliable and resilient production plan is master data such as materials, bills of material, work centers, routings/recipes or, in repetitive manufacturing, the line design
- If you use forecasts to plan your production in the medium and long term, these are also included in production planning
- SAP Integrated Business Planning supports you in planning and determining future requirements
- Depending on which receipt elements you want to include in your production planning, Production Planning generates planned orders
- To generate the planned orders in the correct quantities, you can define economic lot sizes as well as minimum or maximum lot sizes in the material master, among other things
- The MRP run is the core of your MRP in SAP
- With the MRP list, an MRP controller receives exception messages that alert him to procurement bottlenecks
- With the CONSILIO Logistics Alert Cockpit (LAC), you have the option of displaying exception messages for several plants, MRP controllers and other selection criteria clearly and transparently in a list, which is not possible in the standard SAP system
- If an exception message has been processed by the dispatcher, a permanent processing status can be set in the LAC
- A comment on the processing of the message can be added and thus increases transparency
- Edited messages no longer appear in the LAC overview unless you explicitly select this option in the selection mask
- The cockpit can be adapted to your specific requirements, e.g. a change of prioritization in the disposition allows a corresponding adjustment of the procedures
- More exception messages available than in SAP standard
- Exception messages appear flexibly to the respective dispatcher
- Available in English and German
- You can create and include your own exception messages
Take advantage of the benefits of production planning
- Increase the effectiveness of your entire supply chain
- Optimal use of your production and manufacturing capacities
- Transparency over your inventories, material flow, forecasts, orders, plans, production changes and key figures
- Backlog-free planning with a mapping of the critical path and missing parts
- Reduce your WIP inventory
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We understand business administration, SAP and production processes. This combination gives our customers the competitive edge.
Our services for you
- Detailed analysis of your entire production planning and manufacturing processes
- We improve your planning with the know-how from numerous customer projects
- Our experts perform a master data analysis and thus improve your overall production planning
- CONSILIO identifies possible improvement potentials along your process chain
- We optimize your production supply (Kanban, Heijunka and JIT)
- We are happy to support you in the implementation of our best practice planning and manufacturing processes
- Our experts analyze and optimize your parameter settings IoT/MES
- You too can benefit from our many years of SAP project experience
