Free SAP PP Course
SAP PP for Production Planning and Control
Start this free SAP PP course to follow how customer demand becomes a workable production plan. You learn how material requirements and factory capacity shape an order, helping you understand why a schedule may need adjusting.
About this course
In a free SAP Production Planning course, you can trace how demand becomes work a factory can schedule. You begin with plant structure and the data a planning run needs. By linking materials to work centers, the beginner SAP PP lessons show you why a plan depends on accurate information. A basic understanding of manufacturing is helpful; previous SAP experience is not assumed.
Bills of material describe a product's components, while routings describe its work steps. Material requirements planning (MRP) training brings these details together to calculate what is needed. You then follow production orders through material issue, confirmation, and goods receipt. Capacity planning lessons help you recognize bottlenecks that may require a schedule change. Repetitive and process manufacturing examples broaden your understanding before further SAP system practice.
Course outline
Introduction to SAP Production Planning & Manufacturing Fundamentals
In this module, you’ll learn manufacturing types, the SAP organizational structure, plants, storage locations, work centers, how PP connects to sales, purchasing, finance, and quality, and the full planning flow.
Master Data: Material Master and Work Centers
In this module, you’ll learn the material master views for planning, work center setup and capacity, standard value keys, resources for process industries, classes, and mass maintenance.
Bills of Material (BOM) Management
In this module, you’ll learn BOM types and structure, multi-level explosion, alternatives, validity dates, change management, where-used lists, phantom assemblies, and costing versus production BOMs.
Routings and Production Versions
In this module, you’ll learn routing operations and control keys, reference sets, rate routings, master recipes, and production versions that link a BOM to a routing.
Demand Management and MRP
In this module, you’ll learn planned requirements, planning strategies, MRP types, lot sizing, safety stock, running MRP, reading results, exception messages, and simulation scenarios.
Production Order Execution and Management
In this module, you’ll learn to convert planned orders, release orders, issue materials, confirm and backflush, receive goods, settle orders, handle scrap, and review variances.
Capacity Planning and Scheduling
In this module, you’ll learn capacity evaluation, leveling, finite versus infinite scheduling, bottleneck resolution, lead time offsets, and using the graphical planning table.
Repetitive Manufacturing, Process Industries & Reporting
In this module, you’ll learn repetitive manufacturing, process orders, KANBAN, PP reports, period-end tasks, Fiori apps, and common implementation challenges and best practices.
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