ERP Production and Planning

Course details

ERP Production Planning class covers the key sub-modules with the Production Planning Module. Due to the complexity of the Production Planning Module, this course balances business process transactions and configuration to provide a comprehensive overview of the Production Planning Module. The course starts with the business processes of; Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Management, Long-term Planning, Material Requirement Planning, Capacity Planning, Discrete Manufacturing and Repetitive Manufacturing. After reviewing the transactional processes, we review and perform exercises on the key transactions and configuration elements in these sub-modules. By the end of the class, you will understand all the sub-modules and will be able to configure and explain the key configuration elements within the Production Planning Module

Course content

• Plan to Produce Business Process Overview

Production Planning Master Data

• Material master configuration and use in production planning
• Bill of material (BOM) configuration and use in production planning
• Routings (task lists) configuration and use in production planning
• Work center configuration and use in production planning

Master Planning

• Sales and Operations Planning
• Demand Management planning strategies and planned independent requirements
• Long-Term Planning

Material Requirement Planning

• Master Production Scheduling procedure
• Consumption based planning (re-order point planning, forecast-based & Time-phased)
• Material requirement planning run configuration
• Material requirement planning evaluation tools

Capacity Planning

• Capacity planning master data components
• Capacity planning scheduling parameters
• Available capacity determination
• Capacity evaluation

Production Orders

• Scheduling of production orders
• Production order components
• Production Resources & Tools (PRT's)

Discrete Manufacturing

• Planned order structure
• Production order types
• Material staging and withdraw
• Production confirmation
• Goods movements
• Order settlement

Repetitive Manufacturing

• Master Data
• Planning
• Planning Table
• Pull List material staging
• Backflushing

Reporting & Tools

• Production planning reporting
• Material requirement planning reporting
• Maintenance of master data using mass change functions