Mahesh Babu MG works as a services architecture expert in SAP Digital Business Services, Center of Expertise (SAP DBS CoE). He currently leads the Manufacturing and Product Lifecycle Management team in the SAP DBS CoE. He has more than 14 years of professional experience in SAP ERP, SAP APO, and SAP S/4HANA products across various industries with a focus on production planning, production planning and detailed scheduling, and the core interface. He started his career with Tata Consultancy Services as a production planning consultant and worked in implementing, rolling out, and supporting SAP logistics and production planning and control. As a principal consultant at SAP Labs India, he handled product support for multiple SAP APO components before moving to his current role at SAP America Inc. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Anna University (India).

((Second edition, updated and expanded))

· ... Preface ... 15

· ... Who This Book Is For ... 15

· ... How This Book Is Organized ... 15

· ... Conclusion ... 18

· 1 ... Introduction to PP/DS with SAP S/4HANA ... 19

· 1.1 ... What Is Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling? ... 20

· 1.2 ... PP/DS with SAP ... 23

· 1.3 ... Summary ... 42

· 2 ... Master Data ... 43

· 2.1 ... Integration Models ... 43

· 2.2 ... Locations ... 49

· 2.3 ... Product Master ... 54

· 2.4 ... Work Centers and Resources ... 66

· 2.5 ... Sources of Supply ... 75

· 2.6 ... Classes and Characteristics ... 88

· 2.7 ... Quota Arrangements ... 92

· 2.8 ... Setup Matrix ... 96

· 2.9 ... Summary ... 109

· 3 ... Configuration ... 111

· 3.1 ... Activating PP/DS in SAP S/4HANA ... 111

· 3.2 ... Basic Settings for Embedded PP/DS ... 113

· 3.3 ... Heuristics Configuration ... 142

· 3.4 ... Planning Procedures ... 146

· 3.5 ... Order View Settings ... 154

· 3.6 ... Detailed Scheduling Planning Board ... 160

· 3.7 ... Application Logs for PP/DS ... 168

· 3.8 ... PP/DS Optimizer Settings ... 169

· 3.9 ... Summary ... 173

· 4 ... Data Transfer for Transaction Data ... 175

· 4.1 ... Activating the Integration of Transaction Data ... 175

· 4.2 ... Planned Independent Requirements ... 177

· 4.3 ... Planned Orders ... 182

· 4.4 ... Production Orders ... 187

· 4.5 ... External Procurement Orders ... 191

· 4.6 ... Stocks and Batches ... 194

· 4.7 ... Inspection Lots ... 196

· 4.8 ... Maintenance Orders ... 198

· 4.9 ... Sales Orders ... 202

· 4.10 ... Production Campaign ... 207

· 4.11 ... Transaction Data with Flexible Integration ... 208

· 4.12 ... Initial Transfer and Retransfer of Transaction Data to PP/DS ... 211

· 4.13 ... Summary ... 214

· 5 ... Production Planning ... 217

· 5.1 ... Determining When PP/DS Should Be Used for Planning ... 218

· 5.2 ... Basic Functions in PP/DS Planning ... 221

· 5.3 ... Leveraging Planning Heuristics ... 246

· 5.4 ... Leveraging Service Heuristics ... 264

· 5.5 ... Heuristics for Inactive Planned Orders ... 284

· 5.6 ... Triggering a PP/DS Planning Run ... 286

· 5.7 ... Monitoring and Evaluating the Planning Runs ... 309

· 5.8 ... Leveraging the Production Planning Optimizer ... 318

· 5.9 ... Planning in PP/DS with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain ... 339

· 5.10 ... Summary ... 342

· 6 ... Detailed Scheduling ... 343

· 6.1 ... Determining When PP/DS Should Be Used for Scheduling ... 344

· 6.2 ... Creating a Detailed Scheduling Strategy ... 347

· 6.3 ... Leveraging Detailed Scheduling Heuristics ... 377

· 6.4 ... Triggering PP/DS Scheduling ... 398

· 6.5 ... Detailed Scheduling Optimizer ... 430

· 6.6 ... Summary ... 447

· 7 ... The Alert Monitor ... 449

· 7.1 ... Alert Profiles ... 449

· 7.2 ... Alert Monitoring ... 459

· 7.3 ... Summary ... 470

· 8 ... Advanced PP/DS Features ... 471

· 8.1 ... Planning with Shelf Life ... 471

· 8.2 ... Product Interchangeability ... 484

· 8.3 ... Characteristics-Dependent Planning ... 494

· 8.4 ... Push Production ... 505

· 8.5 ... Tank Planning ... 508

· 8.6 ... Production Campaign Planning ... 521

· 8.7 ... Segmentation ... 535

· 8.8 ... Summary ... 546

· 9 ... SAP Digital Supply Chain Management, edition for SAP S/4HANA ... 547

· 9.1 ... Solution Architecture ... 547

· 9.2 ... Prerequisites ... 551

· 9.3 ... Customizing and Configuration ... 552

· 9.4 ... Integration ... 562

· 9.5 ... Summary ... 567

· 10 ... Administering PP/DS with SAP S/4HANA ... 569

· 10.1 ... Core Interface Queue Monitoring ... 570

· 10.2 ... Core Interface Postprocessing ... 576

· 10.3 ... Core Interface Comparison and Reconciliation ... 582

· 10.4 ... Core Interface Application Log Management ... 588

· 10.5 ... SAP liveCache Housekeeping and Reconciliation ... 589

· 10.6 ... Administration of PP/DS Master Data ... 596

· 10.7 ... Housekeeping and Consistency Check Jobs ... 599

· 10.8 ... Summary ... 601

· 11 ... Migration to Embedded PP/DS ... 603

· 11.1 ... New Implementation ... 604

· 11.2 ... System Conversion ... 605

· 11.3 ... Landscape Transformation ... 608

· 11.4 ... Summary ... 610

· ... Appendices ... 611

· A ... SAP Notes ... 611

· B ... The Author ... 619

· ... Index ... 621