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Shop Floor Control and Production Orders

43Excerpt from First Steps in SAP® Production Processes (PP) by Björn Weber.

Shop Floor Control
For the planned production to be executed and monitored optimally, production orders have to be created. Below I will explain how these are set up and how you can work with them effectively.

Production Order
Production orders are independent elements of Shop Floor Control. They are used to represent the production run, print production papers, document the degree of processing, record material withdrawals, and to post the production activity required for manufacture. (more…)

What is SAP Invoice Verification?

73Excerpt from Invoice Verification for SAP® by Stephen Birchall.

What is Invoice Verification?
Most organizations that struggle with poor implementations of SAP Invoice Verification misunderstand the basic process involved. Invoice Verification is simply a function that allows you to capture the details of vendor invoices. If you start from this admittedly simplified viewpoint, the basic design will more likely be robust and you will be more likely to have a process that works as it should. (more…)

Release and transfer of demand plan in SAP APO

106Excerpt from Demand Planning with SAP APO – Execution by Shreekant Shiralkar and Avijit Dutta.

Release and transfer of demand plan
Demand planning is the trigger for supply planning and production planning. This is possible when we make the demand plan available to supply planners and demand planners; after verifying the appropriate release and transfer of the demand plan to the supply system and production system respectively. In this chapter, we will introduce various mass processing and verification methods for carrying out independent consensus demand plan release and transfer to their target system. Once it is successfully released, transferred, and verified, we allow the next planning activities to take place
including supply planning and production planning. (more…)

Key Figures in SAP APO

105Excerpt from Demand Planning with SAP APO – Concepts and Design by Shreekant Shiralkar and Avijit Dutta.

Key figures
Key figures constitute one of the main building blocks for the planning area as demand planning revolves around them. Key figures represent the parameters that have numerical values.

Examples of key figures are: sales history, sales forecast, revenue, etc. (more…)

3 Quick SAP Production Planning Tips

43Dive into 3 quick tips from First Steps in SAP® Production Processes (PP) by Björn Weber.

Forwards/Backwards Scheduling
The decision as to whether to schedule forwards or backwards depends on the MRP procedure used. If you use planning-driven or requirements-driven materials planning, you will calculate backwards from the requirement. In contrast, if you use reorder point materials planning, when you create the order you calculate forwards from the date of creation. (more…)

Customizing SAP: Excerpt from Practical Guide to SAP ABAP Part 2 Performance, Enhancements, Transports

138BookCoverExcerpt from Practical Guide to SAP ABAP Part 2: Performance, Enhancements, Transports by Thomas Stutenbäumer.

Customizing SAP
Most of the installation-specific settings in an SAP system are done as part of the customizing. This task is usually done by the person responsible for the module and not by the ABAP developer. The developer is often asked to investigate any causes of errors. It is often the case that errors are caused by insufficient or missing customizing settings. Therefore, the ABAP developer must know the basic principles of customizing settings.  (more…)