SAP R/3 has a highly integrated Production Planning System.
The PP module is divided into two Sub-modules, 'PP-PI' and 'Production General'.
PP-PI sub-module is designed for process industries like Oil and Gas.
The Production Planning module of SAP takes care of Master
data needed like Bill Of Materials, Routings and Work Centers and stores it in
one separate component.
Various stages of the planning system can be planned by
using components like
Sales and Operation Planning
Long Term Planning
Demand Management
Materials Requirement
Planning
SAP has distinguished various styles of production like
Kanban, Repetitive Manufacturing and Production Order processing. It can take
care of various planning strategies like 'Make-to-stock', 'make-to-order',
'planning without final assembly' etc.
SAP R/3 PP module can also plan Capacity. The capacity
Planning sub-module takes into account various capacities like pooled capacity
etc.
Production Orders reporting has flexibility of confirming
orders with or without backflush. The material can be staged to production site
from the Warehouse after releasing the order. Costing can be triggered
automatically by integrating the module with the Cost Accounting
Module.
Integration with other modules like Material management,
Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Human Resources & Development, Sales
and Distribution etc adds on to reliability of the production planning system in
SAP R/3. The system is a real time system. The changes in demand (cancelled or
added sales order etc) and supply (high/low rejection, early/late supply from
supplier, breakdown of facilities etc) are reflected in real time and the
production controller can react fast to these changes.
SAP R/3 PP module is a very effective tool for production
planning. As it gives many alternatives, it must be configured correctly to
reach optimum utilization.
Print Shop Papers - Configure new / existing SAP
Printers
SAP control the printing of shop floor papers by SAP users
name.
Do not be alarm if you get an error message stating that the
print form was not found.� The SAP users name have not been configure to print
the shop floor papers.
If you want to use a new shop floor papers you first have to
design a new :-
1.� Layout set ���� Copy the standard layout set
as a reference (for example PSFC_STD_LAYOUT)
to a e.g. ZPSFC_STD_LAY01.
2.� Write a new print report ���� Copy the print
program that belongs to the standard layout set (for example, PSFCCONF) to a e.g ZPSFCCONF01.
Steps to configure the Print Shop Papers :-
Transaction OPK8
To add-in an additional users to print the shop papers
:-
Click the Spool parameters for
user
The control are Plant and User Login name. Listed in the
Spool parameters for user are all the user names that are allowed to print the
shop papers.
Double click on the user name that are allowed to print the
shop papers.
Here you tick on the Print column the Print Shop Paper
Layout that will be used.�� You can specify the default printer if you want.� To
print immediately, just tick the Immed. column.
To modify the existing Layout sets :-
Click the Reference Order
Type
Next Select the Production Order type by clicking the
button next to the Production Order type.
Next Click the Form on the left screen
Here you specify the Layout Sets that will be
used.
To modify the existing Program control
for the Layout sets :-
Click the Reference Order
Type
Next Select the Production Order type by clicking the
button next to the Production Order type.
Next Click the Print programs on the left screen
Here you specify the program the will be used to print the
Layout Sets.
