Welcome to the age of the digital production processes
Production planning poses a variety of challenges when it comes to fulfilling your personal expectations and those of your customers. Fast, reliable requirements planning is crucial to avoiding supply bottlenecks and minimizing capital lockup costs in warehousing. Determining what quantity and quality of material is to be provided at what time is a fundamental question in this regard. An efficient and economical production process is an indispensable part of production and manufacturing. Meanwhile, particular attention needs to be paid to ensuring a consistently high level of capacity utilization in production facilities. You now have access to new technological approaches that can help you interconnect sensors, machines and IT as a means of maintaining a clear overview and control of your production processes. For example, it's possible to identify material waste and excess material consumption and initiate countermeasures in a timely fashion. This type of modern production planning and control is further enhanced by fast, user-friendly feedback tools.
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Simple management of complex production scenarios
It's a situation almost every company knows: production planning has just been completed, the machines are showing a high level of utilization and the requirement dates for orders have been taken into account. A moment later, you receive an order from a customer that needs to be turned around quickly. This requires complex, time-consuming effort on your part to restructure your production plan – unless you have Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling from SAP!
SAP S/4HANA boasts comprehensive application scenarios and an extensive solution portfolio of detailed scheduling tools. Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling is of particular interest to businesses that face the following challenges:
- Capacity bottlenecks (machines, personnel, etc.)
- Resource-intensive setup processes and times
- Significant fluctuations and unpredictability in order situations
- A comprehensive range of products and a large number of production machines
- Characteristic-based production
Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling provides you with a multitude of options for fast, straightforward and efficient execution of your production planning. The use of detailed scheduling in SAP S/4HANA enables you to apply finite planning . This means that the system compares requirements against the capacity available, which prevents bottlenecks and situations in which the same resources are allocated multiple times. The detailed planning board gives you an overview of your production planning. You can use the alert monitor to detect impending issues early on, allowing you to react before they actually occur.
Of course, planning heuristics are also very important. These assist you in rescheduling your production plan based on previously defined restrictions and strategies to meet your specifications and requests.
The use of other tools, such as campaign and block planning, can minimize setup costs and times, which in turn leads to cost reductions and faster execution of your production processes. The Optimizer also helps reduce your production costs further in line with your specifications. You can apply various calculation weightings to specific influencing factors and restrictions (normally cost and time factors).
Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling is intuitive and embedded in SAP S/4HANA in a user-friendly fashion. Simple master data management is guaranteed, and the tool's standardized MRP runs provide for fast, straightforward material requirements planning.
