Production Planning and Control with SAP ERP

- Foreword 13
1 Introduction 15
1.1 Goal of This Book 15
1.2 Target Audience 16
1.3 Structure and Content 16
1.4 Restrictions 17
2 Tasks in Industrial Operations 19
2.1 Technical Tasks 19
2.2 Business Tasks 35
2.3 The Production Area in Industrial Operations 45
2.4 Characteristics of Production Type Creation 52
3 Production Planning and Control in SAP ERP 59
3.1 PP in the Context of SAP ERP 59
3.2 Processes in Production Planning and Control 62
3.3 Production Types 64
4 Organizational Structures 79
4.1 Meaning of Organizational Structures 79
4.2 Organizational Structure Overview in SAP ERP 81
4.3 Planners in Design and Work Scheduling 86
4.4 MRP Controller, Capacity Planner, and Production Scheduler 87
5 Master Data 91
5.1 Master Data Overview 91
5.2 Material 92
5.3 BOM 100
5.4 Work Center 112
5.5 Routing 129
6 Sales and Operations Planning 147
6.1 Process Overview 147
6.2 Basic Technical Principles in Sales Planning 154
6.3 Planning Table 170
6.4 Forecast 185
6.5 Event 191
6.6 Resource Leveling Using a Rough-Cut Planning Profile 194
6.7 Transferring Planning Data to Demand Management 198
6.8 Mass Processing 200
7 Demand Management 205
7.1 Process Overview 205
7.2 Time-Based Disaggregation 209
7.3 Planning Strategy 211
7.4 Editing Planned Independent Requirements 221
8 Material Requirements Planning 225
8.1 Process Overview 225
8.2 Influencing Factors in Material Requirements Planning 230
8.3 MRP Procedures 246
8.4 Executing Material Requirements Planning 262
8.5 Scheduling 272
8.6 Procurement Proposals 280
8.7 Analysis 285
8.8 Plant Parameters and MRP Group 290
9 Special Forms of Procurement 295
9.1 Process Overview 295
9.2 Phantom Assemblies 297
9.3 Direct Production and Direct Procurement 300
9.4 Stock Transfer 309
9.5 Withdrawal from Alternative Plant 313
9.6 Production in Alternative Plant 314
9.7 Subcontracting 317
9.8 Consignment 322
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Dr. Gerhard Keller war von 1992-98 Mitarbeiter der SAP AG und im Bereich Logistik-Entwicklung-Methoden verantwortlich für den Aufbau und die Dokumentation der Geschäftsprozesse des SAP R/3-Systems. Danach leitete Gerhard Keller als Mitglied des Vorstandes eines Start-up-Unternehmens die Entwicklung im Bereich Internet und Open Source. Seit Beginn 2001 ist er als Unternehmensberater in den Branchen diskrete Fertigung (High Tech etc.) und Finanzdienstleistungen tätig. Seine Beratungsschwerpunkte im SAP-Umfeld liegen in der Geschäftsprozessgestaltung, dem Aufbau von Unternehmensarchitekturen, dem kollaborativen Kommunikationsmanagement sowie dem strategischen Produktmanagement und Produktmarketing.