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MRP in SAP: Introductory Document

MRP is required to procure or produce the required quantities on time for internal purpose or for sales in SAP. In this document you will find definitions of MRP usage in SAP. See the content below;

  • What is MRP: Why MRP, MRP Process Flow in SAP
  • Master data for MRP in SAP
  • MRP Procedures; Material requirements planning, Master production scheduling, Consumption based planning, Re-order Point Planning, Planning file [MD20]
  • Planning Process: Stock requirement list [MD04], Create PIR [MD61], MRP RUN [MD02], Lot sizing Procedure,
  • Traffic lights
  • ATP (Available to Promise)

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Step by Step SAP PP End User Manual

This document contains step-by-step set of instructions with screenshots for the most commonly used SAP Production Planning processes. Instructions may not be broken down into much details but it will still be a good reference for PP End Users.

A list of major topics covered in this step-by-step SAP material is below;

  • Check Scheduling Agreement [MD04]
  • Check Stock Of Material [MMBE]
  • Exploded BOM View [CS11]
  • Reservation Creation: By Manual Creation Through MB21, Reservation Display [MB25], Stock Transfer Posting [MB26 ], By Manual Creation Through [MB1B ]
  • Check Bill Of Material [CS03]: Checking Standard BOM, Adding An Alternative BOM
  • Check Routing – [CA03]: Checking Standard Routing, Adding An Alternative Routing
  • Production Order Creation – Manual [CO01]
  • Shop Floor Printing – Production Order [CO04]
  • Production Order Confirmation [CO11N ]
  • Quality Inspectation [QA32]
  • Production Order Settlement [KO88]
  • Production Order (Technically Complete) [CO02]
  • Check Production Order Reports
  • Production Order – Through Demand Management
  • MRP – For Planned Order + Purchase Requisition

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Beginner’s Guide to Daily SAP Purchasing Processes for Reference

This document contains step-by-step self notes with detailed screenshots to SAP Purchasing related daily processes. You can see the list of covered content below:

  • Assign and Process Purchase Requisitions [ME57]
  • View Purchase Orders (ME23N & ME22N) [ME23N]
  • Printing a Purchase Order [ME23N]
  • Open PO Report [ME2L]
  • MRP Rescheduling
  • Finding POs by Part Numbers [ME2M]
  • Locating Vendor Information [XK03]
  • Finding Spend by Supplier [ME2L]
  • Interplant Shipments (MD04) []
  • Blocked Invoices [MRBR] & [FBL1N]
  • Changing Purchase Groups [MD04]
  • Faxing a SAP PO [ME22N]
  • Obsolete Materials [MD04]
  • Changing Lead times [ME32K]
  • Safety Lead Time [MM02] ( MRP2 Tab)
  • No Source List [ME57]
  • Outside Processes – an Example of a process
  • NCMR Process [QM03]
  • Managing Low Value Inventories (Process)
  • MRP and ROP

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Sample SAP Production Planning (PP) Business Blueprint (BBP)

This document describes the proposed blue print for SAP Implementation at a company. It outlines all the business processes associated within the scope of implementation. The intent of the document is to define the TO-BE model for the process for which an AS-IS study was conducted during the knowledge gathering phase.

The production planning within SAP (PP) would encompass all activities relating to Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and processing through production. It would include master data maintenance and the controlling transactions needed for the same.

The blueprint aims to cover all the business processes within the scope of the project and in case there are any processes which are not covered for lack of clarity, better solution, etc these would be detailed as additions to the blueprint as and when they are ready. See below the covered topics;

  • Organizational Structure
  • Material Master: Bill Of Material, Work Center, Routing
  • Demand Management
  • MRP
  • MRP Controller
  • Capacity Planning
  • Production Process Execution
  • Process Flow
  • PP Standard Report

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SAP Production Planning (PP) User Training Manual

This training manual provides a step-by-step to SAP PP Processes with all steps having screenshots and clear instructions. See below the outline of the document:

  • Master Data In PP Module
  • Bill Of Material (Bom)
  • Work Center
  • Routing
  • Planned Independent Requirements
  • MRP
  • Stock/ Requirements List
  • Production Order Execution & Production Order Change
  • Capacity Planning
  • Capacity Overload
  • Capacity Leveling- Work Center View( Tabular), Capacity Leveling (Graphical), Capacity Leveling (Orders)
  • Goods Issue & Goods Issue (Reversal)
  • Production Order Confirmation & Canceling Production Order Confirmation
  • Goods Receipt For An Order
  • Stock Overview
  • Production Order Information System
  • Collective Conversion Of Planned Orders
  • Rework Orders

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SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 PP End-User Manuals – Part 2

This is the second part of SAP Production Planning End-User Manual i started before. In my previous post i shared manuals for Demand Management, Capacity Planning, Routing and Work Centre. You will find a lot more user manuals in this post for

  • Serial Number Management for Finished Goods
  • Materials Requirement Planning: Concept of MRP and extensive user guides.
  • Bill of Material, Order Confirmation, Product Conversion, and many more user manual for Material Master

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