Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS)

SAP S/4HANA for Manufacturing planning and scheduling Comprehensive Plan to Produce
in ONE System is a great advantage to plan production process very detailed level.
PP/DS planning and scheduling features available in SAP S/4HANA

 Constraint-based capacity planning, scheduling & optimization

 Heuristic framework
 Industry-specific features (RPM, MMP & CBP).
 Simulation versions and transactional simulation.
 Supports various manufacturing models:
 Make to Stock
 Make to Order
 Engineer to Order

One MRP

 One MRP planning runs for classical MRP planning and advanced PPDS heuristics.
 One low-level code calculation

Simplicity and Seamless Integration

 One coherent application, consistent look at feel, intuitive navigation PP/DS is an

integral part of S4/HANA (not an add-on, not a side-by-side installation).
 Simplified master data and integration model maintenance.

Utilize HANA (HANA only)

 Fast MRP [ One MRP for infinite planning ]

 liveCacheis integral part of HANA, just one database to manage

PPDS mainly covers the following requirements.

 To create procurement proposals for in-house production or external procurement to

cover product requirements
 To optimize and plan the resource schedule and the order dates/times in detail

You can take the resource and component availability into account here. Above all, PP/DS
is used to plan critical products, such as products with long replenishment lead times or
products that are produced on bottleneck resources. You can use PP/DS to create
executable production plans and:

 Reduce lead times

 Increase on-time delivery performance
  Increase the throughput of products and reduce the stock costs, through better
coordination of resources, production, and procurement

Basic Configuration Settings

Advanced planning function activation
In order to switch Advanced Planning function, you have to enter Customizing (transaction
SPRO) Advanced Planning -> Basic Settings -> Activate Advanced Planning and
Scheduling.

Once this advanced planning function activated the following SAP Fiori apps can be
accessed.

 Monitor Capacity Utilization

 Production Scheduling Board
 MRP app Create Optimal Orders for Shipment

The apps activated by the Advanced Planning and Scheduling switch are not part of the
standard SAP S/4HANA Enterprise license. A dedicated license for Advanced Planning and
Scheduling is required if this switch is set to Active.
Data transfer settings