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Establishes manufacturing business context before any configuration begins — the vocabulary (demand, supply, capacity, shop floor) needed to make sense of later modules.

• Role of PP within manufacturing organizations
• Manufacturing strategies: MTS, MTO, ATO
• Production types: Discrete, Repetitive, Process
• The Plan-to-Produce cycle
• PP master data overview: Material Master, BOM, Work Center, Routing
• Role of MRP, Production Orders, and Confirmations
• Integration touchpoints with MM, SD, QM, and FI-CO

PP configuration depends on structure elements from MM and Logistics — Plant is the backbone of all PP master data and transactions.

• Plant as the central organizational unit for production
• Storage Location for inventory management
• MRP Area concept (plant-level and storage-location-level)
• Assignment of Plant to Company Code
• Relevance of Purchasing Organization for PP

Every planning and production transaction references the material master — incorrect MRP or scheduling data leads directly to wrong results.

• Material types relevant to PP
• MRP views (MRP 1–4): type, lot size, planning parameters
• Work Scheduling view: profile, in-house production time
• Plant Data Storage view
• Material status and its impact on planning

The structural foundation for both planning and production execution — without an accurate BOM, MRP cannot calculate dependent requirements.

• BOM types: Material BOM, multi-level BOM
• BOM header and item data
• BOM usage (Production, Engineering, Universal)
• BOM alternative and validity periods
• BOM explosion logic

Represents the machine, line, or labor where operations run — drives both scheduling and costing during production order execution.

• Work Center categories
• Capacity category and available capacity
• Scheduling data: setup, processing, teardown times
• Costing data: cost center assignment, activity types
• Standard value key and formulas

Defines the sequence of operations, work centers, and time standards — together with BOM it forms the complete production "recipe."

• Routing types: Standard routing, Rate routing
• Operations, sub-operations, and sequence numbers
• Work center assignment per operation
• Standard values: setup, machine, labor time
• Control keys and their impact on costing/confirmation

Links a specific BOM with a specific Routing, enabling multiple manufacturing alternatives for the same material.

• Purpose of Production Version
• Linking BOM and Routing combinations
• Validity periods and lot size ranges
• Relevance for MRP and production order creation

Captures expected future requirements through Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) and sales orders — the input that feeds MRP.

• Planned Independent Requirements (PIR)
• Requirement types and planning strategies (10, 40, etc.)
• Consumption-based vs sales order-based planning
• Relationship between Demand Management and MRP

The core planning engine — calculates net requirements against demand and stock, then generates procurement/production proposals.

• MRP types: Reorder point, Forecast-based, MRP-based
• Net requirements calculation logic
• Planned orders vs purchase requisitions
• MRP run: single-item, total planning
• MRP Live (S/4HANA specific) overview
• Pegged requirements and stock/requirements list

Simulates future demand scenarios without touching live data — used to anticipate capacity bottlenecks and procurement needs in advance.

• Purpose of Long-Term Planning
• Simulative planned independent requirements
• Simulative MRP run
• Capacity evaluation using LTP results

The execution document that triggers actual manufacturing — connects planning to shop floor execution, costing, and goods movements.

• Production order creation (manual and from planned order)
• Order release and status management
• Material availability check
• Capacity availability check
• Order printing and shop floor papers

Records actual consumption and progress against the production order — the most frequent daily PP transactions.

• Goods issue for production order: manual and backflush
• Order confirmation: partial and final
• Goods receipt of finished/semi-finished goods
• Variance and overconsumption handling

Automatically posts goods issue for components on confirmation — commonly used for high-volume, low-value components.

• Backflush indicator in material master/work center
• Backflushing logic and timing
• Advantages and risks of backflushing

Ensures available capacity meets planned and actual production load — leveling resolves overloads by rescheduling operations.

• Capacity requirements vs available capacity
• Capacity evaluation: work center/order view
• Capacity leveling (planning table)
• Finite vs infinite scheduling

Supports high-volume, continuous production where order-based control is unnecessary — uses Planning/Production tables instead of individual orders.

• Repetitive manufacturing profile
• Run schedule quantities
• Backflushing in repetitive manufacturing
• Period-based reporting points

Sending components to an external vendor who performs a manufacturing step — bridges PP with MM procurement processes.

• Subcontracting process flow
• Subcontract BOM and component provision
• Subcontracting purchase order
• Goods movements specific to subcontracting (541, 543)

Real-world SAP projects require cross-module thinking — a single production transaction ripples across inventory, sales, quality, and finance.

• PP–MM integration: procurement of components, goods movements
• PP–SD integration: Make-to-Order scenarios, sales order stock
• PP–QM integration: inspection lots during production
• PP–FI/CO integration: order settlement, variance analysis

Capstone module — settlement, variance calculation, and order closing ensure accurate cost reporting and clean status for the next period.

• Order settlement: production order to material/cost center
• Variance calculation: price, quantity, scrap variances
• Technical completion and order closing
• WIP (Work-in-Process) calculation