Monday, December 9, 2013

SAP PP Certification Material List


Topic Primary     Alternative
Integration of planning (PP-MRP vs. APO)                     TSCM40      SCM240       
Planning strategies selection (PP-MRP)        
TSCM40            
      SCM240   
MRP (PP-MRP)                             
TSCM40             
     
       SCM240     
Fixing of planned orders (PP-MRP)            
TSCM40           
      SCM240     
MRP run settings (PP-MRP)                  
TSCM40          
    SCM240       

Evaluation variants (PP-MRP)                                  

 TSCM40           
    SCM240    
Selection of basic datas (PP-SFC)             
TSCM42           
  SCM310      
Availability check (PP-SFC)                  
TSCM42          
 SCM310      
Material staging variants (PP-SFC)           
TSCM42          
 SCM310      
Process integration scenarios (PP-SFC)       TSCM42             SCM310                    

Variants of cost calculation and settlement (PP-SFC) 

TSCM42      
  SCM310
Production planning (ERP)                   
TSCM40             
  SCM240       
Production orders (PP-SFC)                    TSCM42             SCM310      
Master data 1                                     
TSCM40           
   PLM114      
Master data 2                                    
TSCM40          
  PLM114      
Application Overview SAP ERP and SCM      
TSCM40           
  SAPSCM      
Production planning (APO-PP/DS)            TSCM40              SCM250                           
Process orders (PP-PI)                       
TSCM42           
  SCM300      
Repetitive Manufacturing (PP-REM)           
TSCM42         
   SCM300      
KANBAN (PP-KAN)                              
 TSCM42           
   SCM300      
Capacity Planning (ERP)                         
TSCM40         
  SCM360      
SAP Overview and Solution Manager               ERP001  SM001

Monday, May 20, 2013

Manufacturing Order Data Archiving

Requirements of Data Archiving

The main purpose of data archiving is to remove from the database application data that is no longer needed in day-to-day business, with the aim of using resources more efficiently. The following requirements must betaken into account when archiving data:

Legal requirements: Some kinds of data must be archived so that they can be analyzed at any time in the future, for example data required by the tax authorities. These requirements are subject to the laws of the relevant country. SAP has developed the Data Retention Tool (DART)to enable the US Internal Revenue Service to analyze archived data. The tool includes functions for creating transparent files from archived data and to display this data. 

Technical requirements: From a technical point of view, the question is whether data can still be read long after it has been archived, independent of the hardware used at the time of archiving and the software release status. To guarantee this, SAP Data Archiving stores, together with the actual application data, additional information about the hardware that was used to write the data to the archive and what type of data structure was applied.

Business requirements: From the business point of view, only those data objects that are no longer required in day-to-day operations may be removed from the database. Therefore, a logic check must be performed to ensure that only data objects belonging to completed business processes can be archived.The high level of integration between R/3 System applications means that the data objects are closely linked. Consequently, it is essential, during archiving, to check whether the removal of a specific data object from the database requires other objects to be archived at the same time.



SAP Note for Manufacturing Order Archiving

SAP PP tables



MAST - Material BOM 
STKO - BOM Header 
STPO - BOM Positions (detail) 
MAPL - Assignment for Task Lists to Materials 
PLKO - Routing Group Header 
PLSO - Routing Group Sequence 
PLPO - Routing Group Operations 
AFKO - Production Order Header 
AFPO -Production Order Position (details)

Related tables in MM area :

MAKT - Material Descriptions 
MARA - General Material Data 
MARC - Plant Data for Material 
MARD - Storage Location Data for Material 
MAST - Material to BOM Link

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Dead Stock Concept in MC50


MC50 looks at the stock level for a material over a period of time and identifies the lowest level that the material reached. That lowest level is the dead stock quantity as, in theory, that stock was not required. It works on the principle that in an ideal world scenario you would maintain zero stock sitting in the warehouse because you were able to plan such that every day you receive / produce the exact amount that you require to meet all customer requirements with no surplus.

An example would be that if you met all demand over a 3 month period and the stock level in that time never dropped below 100 then that would be the dead stock level as throughout the period you supposedly could have had 100 less stock and still met all requirements.


Dead stock is the part of your warehouse stock that has not been used for a certain period of time. In contrast to the safety stock (intended dead stock), the dead stock value allows you to identify materials with inefficient amounts of stock.

Generally a dead stock occurs if there is too much stock. This may be due to restrictions concerning minimum purchase quantities. Early purchasing and provisioning may lead to dead stock as well, which indicates maladjusted control parameters.


Production Planning Reports


Report Name
Transaction Code (SAP GUI)
Business Role (SAP NWBC)
Technical role name (SAP NWBC)
Production Order Information System
COOIS
Manufacturing
SAP_BPR_SHOPFLOORSPECIALIST-S
Missing Parts Info System
CO24
Production Planner
SAP_BPR_P_
PRODUCTIONPLANNER_EX-S
Capacity Planning
CM01
Strategic Planner
SAP_BPR_STRATEGICPLANNER-S
Long-Term Capacity Planning
CM38
Strategic Planner
SAP_BPR_STRATEGICPLANNER-S
Long-Term Planning: MRP List
MS05
Strategic Planner
SAP_BPR_STRATEGICPLANNER-S
Change Plan
MC82
Strategic Planner
SAP_BPR_STRATEGICPLANNER-S
Evaluation of Product Group Planning
MD47
Production Planner
SAP_BPR_P_
PRODUCTIONPLANNER_EX-S
Selection: Plan/Actual/Variance
S_ALR_87013532
Project Manager
SAP_BPR_PROJECTMANAGER-S
Costs/Revenues/
Expenditures/Receipts
S_ALR_87013531
Project Manager
SAP_BPR_PROJECTMANAGER-S
Actual/Plan/
Variance Absolute/ Variance %
S_ALR_87013543
Project Manager
SAP_BPR_PROJECTMANAGER-S
Order Progress Report 
CO46
Production Planner
SAP_BPR_P_
PRODUCTIONPLANNER_EX-S
Display Production Order Confirmation
CO14
Shop Floor Specialist
SAP_BPR_SHOPFLOORSPECIALIST-S

Sunday, May 12, 2013

What are the highest organizational units

What are the highest organizational units in SD, MM.PP,FI,CO?

SD: Sales Organizations.
MM: Plant
PP: Plant
FI: Company Code
CO: Controlling Area

Production Planning (PP) sub-modules

SAP Production Planning (SAP PP) is compromised of the following modules:

• Master Data - includes the material master, work centers, routings and bill of materials.
• SOP - Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) provides the ability to forecast sales and production plans based on historical, current and future data.
• DRP - Distribution Resource Planning allows companies the ability to plan the demand for distribution centers.
• Production Planning - includes material forecasting, demand management, long term planning and master production scheduling (MPS).
• MRP - Material Requirements Planning relies on demand and supply elements with the calculation parameters to calculate the net requirements from the planning run.
• Shop Floor Control - includes the processing of production orders, goods movements, confirmations and reporting tools for production.
• Capacity Planning - evaluates the capacity utilized based on the work centers available capacity to show capacity constraints.
• Repetitive Manufacturing - in repetitive manufacturing, the manufacturing process is usually simple in that the same products are produced over a long period of time. This module provides the transactions and business process for companies to run repetitive manufacturing in SAP.
• KANBAN - is a process of replenishment based on a pull system using KANBAN cards to generate the replenishment cycle.
• Product Cost Planning - is the process of evaluating all the time values and value of component materials to determine the product cost.

Monday, May 6, 2013

SAP Production /Process Order the following configuration is required

SAP Production /Process Order the following configuration is required:

a) Order type Definition settings

b) Order type Dependant parameters settings

c) Assigning a number range (external or internal) to the order type

d) Scheduling parameters for an Order type

e) Define Confirmation Parameters

f) Configure production scheduling profile

g) Default operation for the generation of operations

h) Default values for availability checks

Auto GR


Auto GR:
Ø  In the final operation of the routing, enter Control key with Auto GR tick
Ø  In OPKP Production Scheduling profile tick Auto GR in The GR screen.

Auto GI/ Backflush


Auto GI/ Backflush:
Ø  In Material Master in MRP 2 views set the back flush indicator
Ø  In Work center in basic data view you have to tick the back flush indicator. It will affect only material used in particular work center.
Ø  In Routing, Component allocation Screen you can set back flush indicator. It will affect only in that routing.
Ø  In the customizing, in OPK4 tick the Goods movement all components in the General valid setting.

Steps Involved in PP cycle


Steps Involved in PP cycle:
*Requirements is flowing in any of the two ways or both, one from sales order( VA01), another
from Planned independent requirement( MD61) or customer requirement( MD81).
*Check whether the requirement is flowing correctly in Stock requirement list( MD04)
*Run a MRP in Single material multilevel (MD02) if there is any Reorder point planning material
run MRP in Plant level ( MD01)
*Check whether planned order is created for a header material and all dependent material in Stock requirement list (MD04).
*Convert the planned order into purchase requisition for external procurement material (MD14 or MD15 or MD04), if it is in house production convert the planned order in to production order in stock requirement list (MD04, CO40 for individual conversion, CO41 for collective conversion, CO48 for partial conversion).
*Once production order is created, release the order, allocate the capacity to work center, availability check and check the cost and save it.
*Once the order is created, dependent requirement is converted into reservation.
*Issue the dependent material to MIGO,
*Confirm the order using CO15, if you want to confirm operation wise , then confirm in CO11N.
*Once the confirmation is made, then goods receipt for the order is carried out
*Set TECO in CO02 (change of production order)
*Month end activity (Calculate the WIP in KKAX)
*Calculate the Overhead in KKS2, variance calculation and settlement of order.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Choose the correct SAP Consultants to have the correct blueprint


An SAP Consultant is a professional who has the skills to speak to the managers of a company and help them creating the blueprint. For this the SAP Consultant has the business skills of the business area he/she is working with, and also masters this area on SAP. For example, if this is SAP FI (accountancy) Consultant, this person is an expert on accountancy and payments, gained through experience or by the corresponding studies at the University. Also this person knows SAP FI because has gained by the corresponding training, or the course on the SAP Partner Academy or similar. Benefits: As this person knows about Accountancy he or she will understand the needs of the business and will bring it into reality.

Business Reengineering with ERP


Implementing an ERP system involves reengineering the existing business processes to the best business process standard. ERP systems are built on best practices that are followed in the industry. One major benefit of ERP comes from reengineering the company's existing way of doing business. All the processes in a company must conform to the ERP model. The cost and benefits of aligning with an ERP model could be very high. This is especially true if the group plans to roll out the system all company. It is not very easy to get everyone to agree to the same process. Sometimes business processes are so unique that they need to be preserved, and appropriate steps need to be taken to customize those business processes.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Qualifications/Skills requires to a PP Consultant




Good educational background, with a degree from reputed institute or university
Basic knowledge of computers and information technology. Basic knowledge of ERP tools and production planning (a experience in that domain shall be beneficial)

The person is also suitable for project team members or IT staff or business analysts or inventory manager, production and purchasing managers for performing their tasks with the help SAP PP software with accuracy and with efficiency.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

ERP Consultants


       The ERP market has grown so big so fast, there has been a shortage of competent consultants. The skill shortage is so deep that it cannot be filled immediately. Finding the right people and keeping them through the implementation is a major challenge. ERP implementation demands multiple skills -- functional, technical, and interpersonal skills. Again, consultants with specific industry knowledge are fewer in number. There are not many consultants with all the required skills.