SAP Production Planning (SAP PP) is the component of ERP Central Component (ECC) that helps businesses plan the manufacturing, sale and distribution of goods. SAP PP plays a vital role in a manufacturer's supply chain and integrates with other ECC modules such as Materials Management (MM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Plant Maintenance (PM), Quality Management (QM), Finance (FI), Controlling (CO) and Human Resources (HR).

Production Planning is the process of aligning demand with manufacturing capacity to create production and procurement schedules for finished products and component materials. It tracks and makes a record of the manufacturing process flows, for example, the planned and actual costs. Also, goods movements from the conversion of raw material to semi-finished goods.

SAP PP is one of most important modules of SAP ERP which deals with the production planning processes like Material Requirement Planning, Capacity Planning, Movement of raw material and goods, Cost management etc.

Because of great market demand of SAP PP consultants in manufacturing companies, most of the working professionals and fresher’s are interested to learn SAP PP application tool to increase their work effectively and knowledge so that they can better perfectly work in Production & Planning Processes.

The British Academy for Training and Development offers this course to the following categories:

• SAP PP/QM/MM Consultants or Managers or End Users.
• Anyone aspiring to become SAP PP/QM/MM Consultant or Manager.
• SAP Logistics Analysts & Consultants.
• SAP & ERP Professionals.
• SAP Functional Consultants.
• Business Analysts & Consultants.
• Project Managers & Supervisors.
• Production or Procurement Planners.
• Anyone interested in SAP Production Planning functionality.
• Anyone looking forward to start SAP career.

After completing the program, participants will be able to master the following topics:

• Understand the core concepts of PP module.
• Apply the knowledge acquired in your job.
• Perform end to end transaction on SAP PP system.
• SAP PP Demand Management definition and functionality.
• SAP PP Planning Evaluation.
• SAP PP Master Data definition and associated functionality.
• SAP PP MRP run.

• Introduction to SAP PP.
• Master Data and Bill of Material (BOM) in SAP PP.
• Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) and Steps to perform Automatic ROP.
• Production Orders and Calculation of Production Order.
• Sales and Operational Planning (SOP).
• Repetitive Manufacturing Process.
• Availability Check and Transfer Requirement.
• Demand management.
• Long Term Planning (LTP).
• Capacity Requirement Planning.
• Goods Movement against Production Order.
• Production Order in SAP PP.
• Reports used in SAP PP.