SAP PP FAQ
SAP PP Frequently Asked Question
Q: Where can I find any SAP PP Books for reference?
A: There ONLY one SAP PP books available
which can be found in Amazon is :
Administering
SAP R/3: The Production and Planning Modules
Q: I have some other Production Planning and Control question, where can I asked it?
A: Well, consider joining a PP forum.
Q: How to configure the planning calendar for the ATP calculation where goods are shipped every other working day?
A: Use Transaction MD25 and define calculation rule for every other
working day. Check the lot size settings in OMI4 and
maintain relevant data in MMR.
Q: We have two different production lines with
different operations. One production line works 5 days a week and the
other 7 days a week.
The factory calendar is assigned to the plant for 5 days a week. This calendar
is checked when
MRP is run.
How can we assign 5
day a week and 7 days a week against a factory calendar to the related
resources? Is it possible to
have two types of calendars?
A: Assign factory calendars to the work centers.
Q: What is the difference between by-product and co-product and how do you differentiate them in a BOM?
A: In case of Co-product costs are settled with a apportionment structure.
In case of By-product the price of this by-product
is credited to the order or the material stock
account of the lead material being manufactured. Co-Product as well as
by-product are defined as BOM Components/Items.
Both of them have negative quantities. ( Not all negative quantity
items fall under these categories!). When
BOM is created for FERT , you can see one indicator in COMPONENT
DETAILS screen for co-product. You need to define
the co-products with this special indicator .
Q: What are some important tables used in PP ?
A: For orders:
CUAFVD dialog structure for order headers
and items
AFPO - Order item
AFFLD Order: Dialog table for order sequences
(AFFL)
MOPER Operation for production order
KBED Capacity requirements
AFRU Order completion confirmations
RESB Reservation/Dependent Requirements
AFFHD Structure of PRT's in orders
SOPER Sub-operations
SAFRU Sub-operation confirmations
SKBED Capacity requirements for sub-operation
MRP table is MDTB.
For PI:
CAUFV - AFVC Operation within an order
AFFT Order Process Instructions
AFFV Order process instruction values
Some other tables of interest:
PLKO, MAPL , PLAS.
Bills Of Material
Q: We have a BOM - 'A' with two packing materials
'X' and 'Y'. For 1000 units of 'A', 1 packing material of 'X' is required
and for 50 units of
'A', 1 packing material of 'Y' is required. Base quantity of 'A' is defined
as 1000. How can I define
'X' & 'Y' or in
fact 'A'?
A: Make the base quantity of 'A' as 5000. The resulting component quantities would be 5 of 'X' and 100 of 'Y'.
Work Centers
Q: Can we have more than 6 standard values in standard value key?
A: One way to achieve this is to create another operation step using
the same work center. However this shall be with a
control key that is not a milestone. When
the milestone operation is confirmed, the previous operations up to the
next
milestone are automatically confirmed. To
get the desired number of standard values , all the 'non milestone' steps
can
be built depending on the need.
Routing
Q: Can we use same routing for materials undergoing
the same process/operations? Can we avoid separate routing for each
and every material produced?
A1: Presume that there are 50 products and the fabrication shop uses
a set of 10 machines. If all these products use the same
settings of the machines, Reference
Operation Sets (task list type S) can be setup for common processes that
use the
same work centers. However costing,
scheduling and capacity will be affected if each product has different
setup time and
Reference Operation sets can not be
used.
A routing for each material number (
type N or R) has to be set up and within that routing, the Reference Operation
Set
can be used.
However you can by try utilizing the
KMAT material and product variants invariant configuration to avoid separate
routing
for each material.
A2: You may create a routing group. Go into routing creation and enter
the plant and the group name. If you want you may
name the group , else name is
assigned by internal counter). Create the routing with the work centers,
operation times, etc.
Go to the "Header overview" screen
and click on the "Mat Alloc" screen. Fill in the blanks with all the material
masters
that use this routing.
Q: Scheduling times can be defined in the material
master record by;
# entering the in-house
production time. This value can be updated from the routing by the system.
# entering the setup,
tear down, processing, and interoperation times. If these values are maintained,
the system
determines
the in-house production time on the basis of lot size.
How do you get the system
to update this value from the routing?
A: In routing, carry out scheduling. Go into the routing operation overview
and follow Extras -> Scheduling -> Results. The
pop-up window displays the scheduling data.
At the bottom there is a pushbutton to copy the scheduling data to the
material master Check this push button to
update master data.
Q: We have deleted a group key in an operation
in routing and the same does not appear for this routing (CA02). But we
noticed that entries
are maintained in table PLPO and the deletion indicator is not set. How
does the system remember this
deletion of group key?
A: You may look at the tables PLKO, MAPL and PLAS.
Sales & Operations Planning
Q: We defined SOP in months. However during SOP
transfer to demand management, our independent requirements are
appearing in weeks.
How can we correct this from weeks into months ?
A: Check transaction OMPA for general split. OMPS - based on the MRP
group. Ensure that MRP group assigned to the
material. Delete any allocations in these
tables. Then periods will be transferred to Demand Management with the
same
splits as in SOP. Also check whether the value
of period is set as "month" at your plant level in Transaction 'OMP7'
Demand Management
Q: Sales quantities in SOP for certain days are
transferred into Demand Management and are shown as planned independent
requirements. We need
to keep the settings in SOP and change the periods in Demand Management?
We would like to
have a rolling horizon,
for ex: the following 4 weeks on a daily basis, after that on a monthly
basis. What is the best way to
do this?
A: Use the automatic period split function.
M R P
Q: We have a lot size procedure here which is
creating more order proposals. How do you set the limit value for maximum
number of MRP order
proposals per date in IMG?
A: Under customization, try materials management->consumption based planning->maintain all plants
Q: What is the difference between "planned consumption"
and "Unplanned consumption"? Can safety stock calculation be
done on either of these?
A: While customizing movement types (OMJJ) it is defined as to which
set of consumption values gets posted during the
material movement. For some it may always
be the total consumption and for some it is always the unplanned one and
for
some it is dependent on whether the issues
were done with reference to a reservation ie., a planned consumption. The
way
these consumption values are taken into account
in MRP is defined in the customizing of MRP types.
For Reorder point planning (VM) the total
consumption is used to calculate the safety stock and the reorder point.
For Forecast based planning (VV) the total
consumption is used to build the forecast which will be used to compile
the
order proposals.
For Deterministic MRP (PD) the unplanned consumption
is used to calculate the forecast which in turn is added to the
actual demand.
Q: We want the system to run a single level MRP
automatically on receipt of sales order. How to configure triggering event
based MRP?
A: This can only be run if material master has planning strategy 41
(made-to-order) in the MRP2 view. We need to run for
other MRP types. We have to create a user
exit in the sales order processing (VA01) to start MRP based on data from
our sales transaction.
Q: We have an assembly 'A' using a subassembly
'B'. 'B' in turn uses raw material 'C'. Item 'A' is an MPS and is duly
marked
in Material Master.
Item 'B' and 'C' are marked as 'PD'. When demand for 'A' is entered and
MPS is run , upto which level
the requirements are
taken care of?
A: MRP can be run depending on your requirement. For example:
Single Item / Single Level from MPS - Transaction
Code MD42 - Only the top MPS item ( 'A' in this case) is planned
and dependent requirements will be passed to MRP
item ( 'B' ) . Run MRP, Transaction MD02 on 'B' to plan it and all
MRP items below .
Single Item / Multi Level from MPS - Transaction
Code MD41 - All levels are planned - A , B & C
Total Planning from MPS online or background - Transaction
Code MD40 or MDBS
Without marking the checkbox " Process MRP materials"
is like case ( 1) above and with the checkbox marked is
like case (2 ).
Production Orders
Q: We get an error message "Control parameters for scheduling not defined" while creating test production Orders. Why?
A: Before you attempt creating Production orders, configure your
Order types- Transaction Code OPHJ
Order type Dependent parameters - Transaction Code
OPL8
Backorder Scheduling - Transaction Code OMIH
Scheduling Levels - Transaction Code OMIF
Q: We are trying to create Purchase Requisition
from MRP run. We have material , info Record, Source list , Demand in
place. MRP is
always creating plan order. Why?
A: Check the procurement type in MRP view of material master. Check
'Create Purchase requisition' indicator while running
MRP. If you want purchase requisitions to
be created in the opening period, select the for MRP control parameter
'create purchase requisitions' as '1'.
Q: What is the option "Documented goods movements" on Selection of Individual Object Lists (transaction code CO28)?
A: Use Transaction code OPL8 to customize by choosing the order type,
select all the checkbox under "Documentation of
goods movements" at the bottom of the page.
Create a new Production order, make GI to it, and run the report.
Q: We would like to have a report/inquiry that
would indicate variances (materials, material quantities) between material
recipe
and actual process orders.
We tried ME2M but this gives us a list of purchasing documents and not
the consumption
deviation. Where can
I get such consumption deviation (master recipe Vs. Process> Orders)?
A: Do a data collection first.
Menu Path - Accounting->Controlling->Product cost
acctg->Process mfg->Information system->
Cost object hierarchy->data collection
(If you are using order hierarchy you would select
order hierarchy in place of cost object hierarchy in the menu path.)
Then,
Accounting->Controlling->Product Cost Accounting->Order
Related Production->Information System
Choose Report Period Costing - Target/Actual production
variance
Q: We have two components ( 'X' & 'Y' ) in
a production order in a process oriented production process. When 50 numbers
of component 'X' are issued,
we need the system to automatically issue 100 numbers of component 'Y'
based on ratio
of 1 to 2. Where do I specify
these ratios?
A: You can define the ratio in BOM and material may be issued with reference to BOM.
Q: We have two storage locations are '0001' and
'0600'. Default storage location in Process order is always '0001' What
determines this
default location?
A: Look into OSS notes: 100757, 63493, 96262, 87843, 82033, 64946.
The Storage location as configured in the
Supply area has the highest priority.
Q: We need to do GI of components to production
order using Back-flush. The component stock is managed in Batches.
The Batch to be back-flushed
is selected by FIFO from the issue storage location. How can we set this
up?
A: With the following settings, the batches are selected the moment
the production order is released.
1: Set up batch determination the way that
the batches in batch selection are sorted the right way. e.g. sorted by
expiry date
2: Use automatic batch selection in disp view.
3: Ensure that the components are allowed
to be back-flushed (material master / work center)
Q: We want to report on several status combinations
like each order that has status 'Not deleted' and 'Not technically
completed'. What
set up is required?
A: Check transaction CO28. In the selection screen note the possible
selection 'System Status' . You can select TECO for
technically complete an DLT for deleted from the
list. Select the Excl. indicator also.
You may also try transaction CO26 (Logistics ->
Production -> Production control -> Control -> Information systems ->
Order Info System -> Object overview). Before executing
the transaction report, combinations of statuses can be selected
or exclude them.
Q: How can we shut off the "automatic costing
indicator" and the "automatic scheduling indicator" which go on when the
production order is
released?
A: For "no automatic costing" follow the IMG path
Production -> Production orders ->Master data ->
Order - >Define order type dependent parameters
Select the order type for which u automatic costing
is not required. In the controlling settings, select "no automatic costing"
For "no automatic scheduling" , follow the IMG path
:
Production ->Operations - >Scheduling -> Define
control parameters
Select the order type and go to details. Deselect
" automatic dates "
Alternatively, you can find indicators in the control
key, which is in the routing. Transaction OPL8 gives you costing
indicators (Order type dependent parameters), and
OPJU (control table for scheduling) gives some scheduling options.
Variable Size
Q: How can I use variable size items?
A: For example, consider an item A with 'kg' as base Unit Of Measurement(UOM)
and 'm3' as stock keeping/issue unit.
Conversion factor is 1kg = 2.4 m3.
In the BOM of 'B' ,number of A required are
specified (say 5).
Specify the 3 variable dimensions i.e. length,
width & thickness- say 2000mm X 3000mm X 4mm = 0.024 m3
As per BOM - 'B' , the quantity of A required
is 0.024 X 5 = 0.120 m3
If a production Order is released for 15 numbers
of 'B' , the quantity of variable size unit will be 1.20 m3.
You can change the length, width or thickness
in the production order & check the resulting variable size item quantity.
At
the same time this requirement can be seen
in 'kg' in stock/requirement list.
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