SAP ERP, add-on for embedded production planning and detailed scheduling

Finding the Constraint Capacity evaluation in PP Introduction: The topic of this blog post is to show you how can SAP PP help you to find the constraint on the shop floor. If you use ToC (Theory of Constraint) in your plant or you would like to or... Read More »

The aim of this blog is to show how you can make your own planning and scheduling system as an add-in into your SAP or at least the first step:  building order net for particular order-position-schedule combination or in other words order status... Read More »

Back in 2015 I wrote the blog What can I do it MRP does not plan a material? trying to help people to solve one of the most common problems related to the MRP execution, that is a material not being planned by MRP. Since then, MRP Live became more... Read More »

Hi All, Sometimes there can be a requirement where you might just want to refresh only master recipe or BOM but not both while copying the master data into a new process/production order. Enabling the check boxes in “Read master data ”... Read More »

Normal Business Scenario: In an ERP Model, Production Planner need to keep a tab on the amount of material available as and when required for smooth functioning of the production cycle. SAP provides MRP run to assist Production Planner with... Read More »

Premise: Many industries have co-products, main products & also have the need to be able to Plan the demand for the co-products, in addition to planning the main product. Also, there wasn’t a blog, to my surprise, that addressed this... Read More »

Overview: Use this transaction to create production orders without a reference to a material. This transaction should be used to create re-work production orders. After settlement cost will get settled to the original production... Read More »

Dear All, Business Process with Milestone Confirmation in the Process Order For a Process Order, with multiple Operations & each Operation contains multiple Phases. During the confirmation of the last Phase of the last Operation, (which... Read More »

Overview: Stock movement can happen between plant to plant with different company code which we refer as Inter company STO (Stock transfer order). Return can take place from receiving plant to supply plant due to the various reasons (e.g. –... Read More »

Huge volumes of data and a complex planning scenario hinder the classic MRP run in the ERP system. Nightly MRP runs exceeding a runtime of 8 hours are getting more and more common in many enterprises. In this case, the planning department does not... Read More »