What is SAP Production Planning? Why it is used?

SAP Production Planning is one of key module in ERP and deals with planning processes like capacity
planning and material planning and execution of production order, bill of material and goods
movement. SAP PP module handles master data that is required for BOMs activity, work center and
routing and keep it in a separate component.

What is difference between Discrete and Repetitive Production?

Discrete production is known as industry where produce materials changed with each lot and costs are
calculated as per orders and lots.

In Repetitive production, product is not changed for longer time period and production is done as total
quantity and not in the form of individual lots.

Explain Production Planning life cycle?

Converting planned order to Production Order

First step is to convert a planned order to production order. When you create a Production Order, type
is defined in SAP PP system.

Issue the production order

To start the production process, it is necessary to issue Production order. Till a production order is not
released, execution of production process is not started.

Issuing goods for production order

Issuing goods is required for providing the goods to execute the Production order. Once goods are
issues, document number can be updated in the system.

Production order confirmation

All the sub processes are executed in accordance with required operations to confirm the production as
per Production order.

Good receipts w.r.t Production Order

Once production order execution is completed, goods produced w.r.t Production Order are received
and placed in storage area.

What are the different elements in Org structure under SAP Production Planning?

In SAP PP module, organization structure defined the location of manufacturing plants and storage
locations within the plant. At the top you have company and company code and then each company
code contains different plant and storage locations.
Which all modules SAP PP is integrated with? Explain the integrated activities that are performed
with each module under PP?

To perform Production Planning and Control activities, SAP PP is closely integrated with other SAP
ERP modules: SAP Sales and Distribution SD, SAP Material Management MM, Quality Management,
Finance Accounting and Project System.

You can find list of below activities from Production Planning that are related to other SAP modules and
integration with other modules.

SAP PP and SAP Material Management MM

This involved movement of goods, auto goods receipt.

It includes creating reservation for Production Order/Planning.

Raising Purchase orders with MRP Run.

Quotations and Vendor selection.

SAP PP and SAP SD

This is used to check the availability of material for production order.

To perform MRP Run, Requirement Types.

Bill of Material components and operation.

SAP PP and SAP FICO

Updating price in material master data

Defining activity Type in the Cost center

Assigning activity type to Work Center

Cost Estimation

Production cost controlling

Posting accounting activities related to goods movement, material request, etc.

SAP PP and Project System

Assigning planning activities to WBS in the Project.

Running Material requirement planning at Project level (MD51). The procured material attached to WBS
are reserved as project stock against the particular project.

The component attached to network are planned at plant level and are reserved as plant stock.
SAP PP and Quality Management

Inspection Type 03 for discrete and repetitive manufacturing.

Inspection Type 04 for both Discrete and Repetitive Manufacturing

What are the different master data exists under Production Planning?

Bills of Material BOM

Material Master

Work Center

Routing

What is BOM?

Bill of material master data is related to material requirement planning and provides the list of
components to produce the product.

To produce a product with different variants, you can create super Bills of Material that has list of
components to manufacture different variants of a product and selection of component depends on
details mentioned in planning order.

What is the difference between Material and Sales order BOM?

Material BOM

When a Bill of Material is created for a material is known as a material BOM in the SAP. Material BOMs
are mainly used to represent the structure of products manufactured within your company.

Sales order BOM

Sales Order BOM is used when you specially tailor the make-to-order production of products as per
requirements of the customers. To meet the customer requirements, you make sales order specific
modifications to various assemblies.

What are the key charactertics of BOM?

You can create Bill of Material as single level or multiple level.

BOM type depends on the size, validity dates and production method.

You can create up to 99 Bills of Material as per material type.

You can use material Bill of material for the material available in PP module and equipment Bill of
Material are used in Plant Maintenance module.

As mentioned you can create super BOM for different variants of a product.
What is Work Center under Production Planning? Why do we use Work Center?

Work center consists of master data related routing of products. It contains data related to scheduling,
capacity planning and production costing.

All the manufacturing activities are performed in Work Center. Work center can be used to monitor
these activities

Scheduling

You can schedule the operations in Production order as per operating times in Routing and formulas
mentioned in work center.

Production Costing

You can also check production costing as per formulas mentioned in work center. A Work center is also
linked to cost center and it defines the cost of operation in Production Order.

Capacity Planning

You can find current capacity and future capacity requirements stored in work center.

What is Routing process under Production Planning?

Routine defines the list of activities to be performed for production process. Routing defines sequence of
activities performed at work center. Routing plays in important role in calculating production cost,
machine time and labour time.

What is the use of routing in PP or explain key charactertics of Routing under Production Planning?

To create routing it is mandate that you first define work center.

Multiple material can follow single routing group.

Routing is used for scheduling and costing of operation for raw and finished products.

Routing is used for calculation operation cost for finished product.

What are different Planning strategies?

Make to Stock Planning strategy

This is planning strategy where stock is produced without sales order. It is used to meet customer
demands in future.When you use Planning strategy 10, only PIR quantity is considered for MRP run
and sales order are completely ignored. In this PIR requirement type LSF and is reduced when you
deliver stock to customer.

When you use Planning strategy 40, for MRP run maximum of 2 PIR and Sales order can be considered
and PIR is reduced when enter the Sales order. PIR requirement type is VSF in this case.
Make to Order planning strategy

In this planning strategy, finish products are not produced until you receive sales order from a
customer. For MRP run, you only consider Sales order.

In MTO strategy, you only produce sales order stock and products are delivered as per sales orders
from specific customer.

You use Planning strategy 20 for make to order MTO process and planning strategy 25 is used to
produce product variants when there is request for variant products from customer.

What is Material Requirement Planning under Production Planning?

MRP run or planning run is an engine which is used to fill demand and supply gap. Issues & Receipts
are called MRP Elements. Issues include PIRs, Dependent Requirements, Order Reservations, Sales
Orders, Issuing Stock Transfer Orders, etc. and receipts include Production Orders, Purchase
Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Open Production Orders, Receiving Stock Transfer Order, Schedule
lines, etc.

What are the different parameters that are required to run MRP?

MRP parameters are required to run material requirement planning to meet Planned Independent
Requirement PIR and to use Routing information. Different MRP parameters can be used

Processing Key

NetChange In this run system consider those material which has undergone some changes from the
previous MRP run.

NetChange in planning horizon This run considers the requirement in predefined planning horizon
and not like net change which check the future requirements.In this run, system consider only those
material which has undergone some changes from their last MRP run.

Regenerative Planning In this run, system consider all the material irrespective of changes and it is
time consuming and not common in Production planning.

Scheduling

Basic Scheduling It only calculates basic dates for orders in MRP run and in house production time for
material master in use

Lead time Scheduling In this MRP, production dates are defined by lead time scheduling for planned
orders.

Is it possible to create Production order without Routing and Work center? How?

Yes, by changing the configuration in OPL8- Order type dependent parameters as routing optional.
When we try to create an order using C001 it may ask for a sales order.
What do you understand by Long term Planning? Can we perform Long term planning for shorter
time period?

Long term planning in SAP PP is used to check future demands at all Bill of Material level. You can
check the current capacity and vendor ability to provide the material in required time period.

This is not actual run but is used to see if all capacity requirement can be fulfilled and you can also
transfer simulative area to operative area if requirements are fulfilled.

Also note that it is not necessary that you perform simulative planning in long duration, it can be for
short term and there is no time restriction.

What is Production Order? How do you determine the list of components and operational data in the
order?

A Production order is used to define the material to be produced, plant location where production has
to be done, date and time of production, quantity of goods required. A Production Order also defines
which components and sequence of operations are to be used and how the order costs are to be settled.

BOM and routing data of the materials are copied into the production order which determines the list of
components and operational data in the order.

What are the key steps under Production Order confirmation?

First step is to convert a planned order to production order. When you create a Production Order, type
is defined in SAP PP system.

To start the production process, it is necessary to issue Production order. Till a production order is not
released, execution of production process is not started.

Issuing goods is required for providing the goods to execute the Production order. Once goods are
issues, document number can be updated in the system.

All the sub processes are executed in accordance with required operations to confirm the production as
per Production order.

What are the different ways to create Production Order in PP?

A Production Order can be created in following ways

Directly from Stock Requirement List

Using Planned Order number

What is capacity planning and capacity leveling?

Capacity Planning is done to balance the load at work center and you can calculate production capacity
based on requirement of product as per available capacity.
Capacity leveling is performed for performing detailed production planning purpose. This is done
through planning table which is used to carry detailed planning of capacity requirements over time in
future.

How do perform capacity leveling under PP?

You can perform Capacity Leveling using Planning table and orders are processed as define in work
center to meet the Production process.

To perform Capacity leveling, use T-Code: CM21

When do you perform Goods Receipt under PP? What is the movement type?
Good receipt is performed when material is produced as per Production order and goods is placed at
storage location. The stock quantity is increased and movement type 101 is entered.

How do you create goods Receipt under SAP Production Planning?

Use T-code: MIGO

What happens when a planned order is converted into Production Order?

Planned order are offset by production order and you can see the planned order details in the
Production order.

When do you perform a Goods issue under PP? What is the movement type?
In SAP PP, goods issue is done when raw material is consumed to produce material as per Production
order. When goods are issued, system decreases the inventory of components at the storage location in
Production Planning system.Movement type 261 is used for goods issue.

How do perform Goods issues under PP?

To perform goods issue, use T-code: MB1A or go to Logistics Production Production Control
Goods Movement Goods Issue.Enter Movement type 261 for goods issue.

Can you reverse Goods issue? What is the movement type for Goods issue reversal?
Goods issue reversal is used when you cancel the goods issue for an order. Goods issue can be
cancelled till order status is confirmed CNF in system.Movement type is 262 in Goods issue reversal.

Why do we use Stock Overview?

You can use Stock overview to check the available stock at any point of time. Stock overview can be
checked using T-Code: MMBE

What is Material Requirement Planning Controller in Production Planning?

MRP Controller is an individual or group of persons who are responsible to check material availability.

What do you understand by Planning horizon?

Planning horizon is used to define the period for the Net change planning in the planning horizon.

When you create a test Production order, you get an error message- Control parameters for
scheduling not defined, what could be the reason?
Before Production Order creation, you have to define Order Types, dependent parameters, backorder
scheduling, and level.
What is the difference between MD04 and MD05?
MD04

This is used for Stock / Requirement list this is dynamic list which reflects even any small change is
made in Master Data, Planned Order & Production order etc. for respective material for which you
have executed stock / requirement list.

MD05 is used to view MRP list which displays results of last MRP run for the material for which you
have executed MRP list.

What is SAP Production Planning for Process Industries PP-PI?

SAP PP-PI provides an integrated planning tool for batch-oriented process manufacturing and is used
in pharmaceutical, food and chemical industry to support planning of production, waste disposal in
the plant.

How do you check the costing details in Production Order?

You can check this in CO02 select Cost Analysis and you can check the cost of Production Order.

What is Plan cost, Actual cost and Target cost?

Plan Cost = Planned Quantity X Planned Price

Actual Cost = Actual Quantity X Actual Price

Target Cost = Actual Quantity X Planned Price

What do you understand by Sales and Operational planning?

SOP is forecasting tool that allows you to set the sales, production, and other supply chain targets
based on existing, future, or historical data. SOP is most commonly used for finished goods.

What are the different components under SOP?

SPO consists of following two components

Standard SPO it is predefined in the system.

Flexible SOP You can configure it in multiple ways.

Which Transaction code is used to cancel the Production Order?

Use T-code: CO13

Enter order number and click on tick mark at the top. You will be prompted to confirm the action.

How do you check if any work center is overloaded?

Capacity Planning is done to balance the load at work center and you can calculate production capacity
based on requirement of product as per available capacity.

You need to check capacity load on work center and if any work center is overloaded, we need to move
orders to different work centers.
To check Capacity Loads

Use T-Code CM01 or go to Logistics Production Capacity Planning Evaluation Work Center
View Load.

Name few of the tables under Production Planning that contains detail about BOM?
MAST Material BOM

STKO BOM Header

STOP BOM Positions

Do you have any idea about SAP QM?

SAP Quality Management is part of SAP R/3 system and is integrated with other SAP modules like
SAP Material Management MM, Production Planning PP and Plant Maintenance. QM is integral part
of logistic management and is used to perform quality functions at incoming material, in process
manufacturing process and raw material as well in the facility.

What are different inspection under QM for Production Planning?

Inspection Type 03 for discrete and repetitive manufacturing. Inspection Type 04 for both Discrete and
Repetitive Manufacturing.

How many BOMs can be created?

You can create up to 99 Bills of Material.

What do you understand by Material staging?

Material staging is called when you transfer the material from your main store to production location.

What is backflushing in Repetitive manufacturing REM?

This is used to record work process in the system and to get the requirements of repetitive, mass or
flow manufacturing.

Explain the difference between stock transport and stock transfer?

Stock transfer This is known as the transfer of stock for the usage in the same company.

Stock transport This is known as change of title of stock in the name of the buyer.

What are the different costing parameters under Production Planning?

Work Center

Routing

What is the Transaction code for changing and displaying Production Order?
You want to change the details in Production Order, you can do this by using below code.

Use T-code: CO02

To display the Production Order, T-code: C003

 What are the common tables under Production Planning for MRP and REM?
For Material Requirement Planning MRP

Table Description

MDKP Document Header data

MDTB Table Structure

MDVM Planning File Details

MDFD MRP Date details

S094 Stock Analysis

For Repetitive Manufacturing

Table Description

S025 Run Schedule Quantities

S026 Material Usage

S028 Reporting Point Statistics

SAFK RS Header Master Data

Q. Explain what is SAP PP?

SAP PP process is related to production planning of a company and it encompasses all activities like
MRP (Material Requirement Planning), BOM (Bills Of Material), Routing, Capacity planning, etc. but
mainly it contains two segments

Material Planning: Material requirements planning, long term planning,

Execution Planning: Creation of production order, workflow, conformations, technical completion and
good movement
 Q. Mention what are the production processes in SAP?

There are three types of production process in SAP

Discrete Manufacturing
Repetitive Manufacturing
Production- Process Industries

Q. List out the activities carried out in Production Planning?

Activities involved in Production Planning includes

Processing material master

Creation of Bill of Material
Displaying work center and routing
Maintaining planning calendar
Maintaining production lot
Maintaining quota file
Defining range of coverage profile and profile for safety time
Defining MRP views

Q. Explain what is Routing in SAP PP?

Routing in SAP PP is referred to a list of activities which are required to produce any material. For
example, when you do cost estimation for the material, the system triggers the relevant routing and
activity rates for all those described in routing. Which will helpful to calculate the processing cost in
product costing.

Q. What are the steps of Production Execution Process?

Production Execution steps include

Converting planned order to production order

Releasing the production order
Goods issue for production order
Confirmation of production order
Goods receipt against production order

Q. What are the reports generated in product cost controlling information system?

Product Cost Controlling information system generates information for following areas

Product cost planning

Cost object controlling with the subcomponents
Product cost by period
Product cost by order
Product cost by sales order
Costs for intangible goods and services
Actual costing / Material Ledger
 Q. Explain what work center in SAP PP is and what is the use of Data in Work Centers?

Work Centers are business objects in SAP-PP that is used in task list operations (routings,
maintenance task lists, inspection plans) and work orders. Data in work center is used for

Scheduling: Formulas and operating time are entered, so that the duration of an operation can be
calculated
Costing: Formulas are entered so that the costs of an operation can be calculated
Capacity Planning: The available capacity and formulas for capacity requirements is entered
Simplifying operation maintenance: Various default values can be included in the work center

Q. What is the use of MRP PP evaluations?

This role contains a function for evaluating the MRP result. This function can be used to find
information about the availability of material and to identify any material shortage situation.

Q. Mention what is the purpose of using Capacity Planning?

Capacity Planning supports planning in all phases

Long term rough cut planning

Medium term planning
Short term planning

It can be integrated with various SAP applications like SAP-SD, PP, PP-SOP, PP-LTP, PP-SFC, etc.

Q. Explain how can you create production order without routing and BOM?

Without BOM and routing you can create a production order by changing the config in OPL8 ( order
type dependent parameters) as routing optional. When we try to create an order using C001 it may ask
for a sales order.

Q. Explain what happens to planned after it has been converted into production order?

When planned order is converted to the production order, the planned orders are offset by production
order. The planned order reference can be seen in the production order.

Q. Mention what is the difference between stock transport order and stock transfer order?

Stock transfer order: It is referred to the transfer of stock for the usage in the same company

Stock transport order: It is referred to the change of title of stock in the name of the buyer
 Q. Explain what is PRT (Production Resource Tools) in SAP PP?

PRT (Production Resource Tools) are moveable operating objects used to perform repeated activities in
plant or production maintenance, for example, documents such as drawings or programs for which
document management functions are used. Various other PRT components include

Engineering drawings
Jigs
Fixtures
Measurement Instruments

Q. Explain how to create PRT master records?

To create PRT master records you have to follow the following steps

1. Choose logistics/Accounting -> Project System -> Basic data -> Master data -> Production resources and
tools -> Create
2. The initial screen for creating a PRT appears
3. Enter a number for the PRT and choose continue
4. The basic data screen appears
5. Maintain the basic data
6. Choose Goto -> Defaults and enter the default values
7. Save the PRT

Q. Mention what is the t-code for changing production order and to display production order?

T-code to change the production order = C002

T-code to display the production order = C003

Q. Explain what is PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) in SAP PP and what is the use?

It is a collection of solutions with which you digitally create, maintain and make product information,
available in the whole company and for the entire life cycle of the product.

PLM provides you the function with which you do following things

The workplace is an open portal in the world wide web and allows you to access all application and
information that you need to work with all external and internal business partners
It can link with other internet applications like program management, change and configuration
management and engineering collaboration.

Q. In SAP-PP what are the costing parameters?

In SAP-PP, the costing parameters are as below

Work Center: Activity types and the formulas, cost center

Routing: The time, activity types
 Q. In cost controlling information system mention the fields that are listed in the list screen of the
report?

Following fields are listed in the list screen of the report

Key Figures

Costing/MM
%Costing/MM
Revaluation
VarCstRuns
%VarCstRuns
Basic data
Valuation
Cost component group 1/ Cost component group 2
CostCompGr(fix)1 / CostCompGr( fix)2

Q. Explain what is the use of SAP Material View and list out other parameters where SAP Material
View is applicable?

SAP Material View is an SAP object that not only hold name of the material, but various other
information related to material like

Material production related information

Material planning related information
Material sales related information
Material purchase related information
Material storage and warehousing related information
Material costing and accounting related information
Material batch specification information

Q. Mention what are the types of Master Views for Production and Planning?

For production and planning types of Master Views are

SAP MRP1 View

SAP MRP2 View
SAP MRP3 View
SAP MRP4 View
SAP Work Scheduling View

Q. Mention how MRP (Material Requirement Planning) types are classified?

MRP types are classified in two leagues

Materials for consumption based planning

Planning based on demand
 Q. Mention what are the key fields found in MRP View 1?

MRP views 1 are mostly maintained for production purposes.

General Data
MRP Procedure
Lot size data

Q. List out the basic procedure for dispatching operations in capacity leveling?

For dispatch operations basic procedure includes

Either the user determines the date of dispatch or else it is specified by scheduling
A dispatching sequence needs to be determined if several operations need to be dispatched
The systems checks for
The dates to which operations are to be dispatched
The work center to which operations are to be dispatched
Finite scheduling is performed
Operation check is performed
Status for the operation is set as dispatched.
System carries out midpoint scheduling

Q. Explain what is the need of MRP list if the stock requirement list is already given?

MRP list displays the result of the last planning run, changes that occurred between planning runs are
ignored in the MRP list. While contrary to this, in the stock or requirement list all changes that occurred
in the stock, issues and receipts are displayed by the system.

Q. Mention what are the t-codes for creating, changing and summarizing BOM?

BOM transaction codes for

Creating BOM= CS01

Changing BOM= CS02
Summarized BOM=CS13

Q. Mention what is the use of t-code CS20 in BOM?

With t-code CS20 you can do Mass changes to BOM like

Change the item data

Creating new material
Replacing it with another material

Q. What are Traffic Lights in MRP?

red = the stock is not available

yellow the stock is in average level stock
green = the stock is available
Q. What is MRP List and what is the use of it?

Definition of the MRP List

The system creates MRP lists during the planning run according to how you set the creation indicator.
These lists contain the planning result for the material. The MRP list always displays the
stock/requirements situation at the time of the last planning run and it also provides a work basis for the
MRP controller. Changes that are made after the planning date are not taken into consideration, so the
list is static. MRP lists are stored in the system until they are either deleted manually or replaced by new
lists from a subsequent planning run.

Q. What is the use of Stock Requirement List?

In the stock/requirements list, the most up-to-date stock and requirements situation is displayed. The
main difference between the MRP list and the stock/requirements list is that each time the
stock/requirements list is called up, the system selects the various MRP elements and displays the most
up-to-date situation. You thus always see the current availability situation of the material in the
stock/requirements list. Changes that are made after the planning date are displayed directly, so the list
is therefore dynamic. Stock/requirements lists are not saved in a fixed state in the system, but are subject
to change and only exist in the working memory.

Comparison

The screen layout of both lists is basically the same. The system automatically runs the rescheduling
check directly when both lists are created and puts forward rescheduling proposals. The number of
exception messages displayed in each list is roughly the same. The only difference lies in the fact that,
due to the nature of the list, no exception messages can occur for newly planned MRP elements in the
stock/requirements list. Directly after the planning run, both lists contain the same information. As soon
as a change relevant to MRP is made, the system updates the information in the stock/requirements
list. As stock/requirements lists are subject to change, they cannot be set with a processing indicator.

Q. What is MRP controller Means?

The MRP controller is a person or a group of persons responsible for monitoring material availability.
You can use the number entered here, for example, to select the planning results per MRP conroller.
Every material that is relevant to the planning run must be assigned an MRP controller number in the
material master record. You can also determine a special person for backorder processing who receives
a mail if a goods receipt was posted for a missing part. You must enter the mail name of this person in
the field entitled, recipient name. In addition, you can define a person or a group of persons, who are to
informed if you send a mail from the MRP list or stock/requirements list to the MRP controller for the
material displayed. Actions

Q. What is MRP group and what is the use of it?

MRP Groups

In this step, you can carry out the total maintenance of the MRP groups and you can allocate a material
type to an MRP group. The MRP group is an organizational object that can be used to allocate special
control parameters for planning to a group of materials. You can maintain MRP groups if planning
control per plant is not precise enough for your requirements and you want to allocate certain material
groups different control parameters from the plant parameters. For this purpose, MRP groups are
 defined with these specific control parameters and are assigned to the material in the material master
record (MRP 1 screen).

For example, the following control parameters can be set for the total planning run:

the creation indicator for the plarequisitions, MRP lists, and so on)
the planning horizon
the consumption mode

The following is valid for total planning and single-item planning:

for all materials without an MRP group, the system uses the plant parameters, or the entries in the initial
screen of the planning run
for all materials with an MRP group, the system uses the parameters recorded in the MRP groupnning
run (creation of purchase)

Q. What is Purpose of Schedule Margin Key?

In this step, you specify the floats for determining the basic dates of the planned orders. The floats are
allocated to the material via the release period key in the material master record.

Opening period: The opening period represents the number of workdays that are subtracted from the
order start date in order to determine the order creation date. This time is used by the MRP controller as
a float for converting planned orders into purchase requisitions or into production orders.

Float before production: The float before production represents the number of workdays that are
planned as a float between the order start date (planned start date) and the production start date (target
start date). On the one hand, this float is intended to guarantee that delays in staging a material do not
delay the production start. On the other hand, the production dates can be brought forward by means of
the float to cope with capacity bottlenecks.

Float after production: The float after production should provide a float for the production process to
cope with any disruptions so that there is no danger that the planned finish date will be exceeded. You
plan the float after production between order finish date (planned finish date) and scheduled end
(target finish date).

Release period: The release period represents the number of workdays that are subtracted from the
order start date in order to determine the production order release. The release period is only relevant
for production order management.

Q. What is opening period?

Opening period : The opening period represents the number of workdays that are subtracted from the
order start date in order to determine the order creation date. This time is used by the MRP controller as
a float for converting planned orders into purchase requisitions or into production orders.

Q. What is SLA ? Service Level Agreements

Service Level Agreements (SLA) define the attributes for service products (for example, maintenance,
Hotline) that have been agreed upon with the customer in service contracts. The SLA confirms different
parameters, such as response time, availability time and system availability.
 Q. What are Basic Dates?

Earliest date for the execution of the production order. This date takes into account the float before
production. If, on order creation, a planned order exists for the production order or process order, then
the order dates are taken from the planned order. When scheduling the production order the system
tries to adhere to the order dates (if necessary, with reduction measures).

If it is not possible to adhere to the basic dates and if the control parameter in Customizing allows the
basic dates to be adjusted, the system adjusts the basic dates of the order during the scheduling run.
If the control parameter in Customizing does not allow the basic dates to be adjusted, the order keeps
the basic dates of the planned order.
If the production order is created manually, you must enter at least one order date manually.
The scheduling type determines, which order dates you must enter.

Q. What is planning time fence?

The planning time fence specifies a period within which no automatic changes are to be made to the
master plan.
The planning time fence is maintained in workdays.

Q. What is Planning Horizon?

In this step, you define the planning horizon. This planning horizon specifies the period for the Net
change planning in the planning horizon. In this kind of net change planning, only those materials that
have undergone a change that is relevant to MRP within the planning horizon are included in the
planning run. Such materials receive a net change planning indicator in the planning file. You make
this specification for a plant. You can define an alternative planning horizon for MRP groups

Q. What is Group BOM?

Alphanumeric character string used to uniquely identify a BOM.

Use

If you assign a meaningful number to a BOM group, this gives you an additional way of accessing the
BOM.
The system stores the following under a BOM group:

all the alternatives in a multiple BOM

all the BOMs entered for a variant BOM

Q. What is costing? How it is affected the PP?

Determining the material costs of a product.

When you calculate production costs using a quantity structure, the system automatically determines
the BOM and all the BOM items that are relevant to costing, in order to calculate manufacturing costs.
Q. What is meaning of Customized Reports?

The report which is not using SAP standard reports.

Q. In Project the Customization is comes under Which Phase?

Realization.

Q. How you get the Ticket?

After release order,the reservation will provide the ticke to pick production material.

Q. What are GAPS? Some Examples?

The GAPS are some issue in blue print that SAP cannot capture or prividing the client bussiness process.

Q. What is LSMW?

The LSM Workbench is an SAP System tool that supports you when copying data from non-
SAP systems.

Q. After Doing Realization How we will check whether it is working or not?

Doing Final preparation to check using the test case from user.

Q. What do we do in Realization Phase?

Provide ARICEF, Configuration Documents, integration test, BPP, UAT, Unit Test and implements
some SAP notes.

Q. How to Move to the Realization Phase?

You must have some blueprints to go in next phase.

Q. In LSMW which is most important Step?

Maintain Object Attributes
Maintain Source Structures
Maintain Source Fields
Maintain Structure Relations
Maintain Field Mapping and Conversion Rules
Maintain Fixed Values, Translations, User-Defined Routines.

Q. Can any body explain me why work scheduling view is required for semi finished and finished
products?
(Because well mention all details in MRP views)
We need to maintain working scheduling view in order to make that finished or semi finished goods
available for production as we assign production scheduler and production scheduler profile in this
view, if not maintained conversion of planned order to production will not be possible
 Q. What are all the settings done for configuring integration of PP with FICO?

Do availability check. You will get missing parts list. Procure those missing parts. Then confirm the
production order. One more thing you can do, change customize setting so that user cannot release if
parts are missing during order release.
Standard cost is the cost which is fixed for a period, variable cost is varying with period. As for example
cost of semi finished, finished materials are fixed & cost of raw materials are varied.
You will find in master data tab page of production header data overview, CO02 Read PP Master
Data. Also from Functions menu you will get Read PP Master Data. This means that you want the
system to re-update the production order with the latest BOM structure.
Assigning of Cost center to work center. Assigning Activity type to work center, Standard Cost estimate,
Costing Run, Order settlement, Product costing.

Q. Can MRP be carried out for one particular level of a bom ( Level code : 0001/0002 etc).

Yes it can be done by running for specific materials (Single Material Single Level)

Q. How Requiements( PIR,Sles Order, Customer Requirement) are reduced after they are produced?

Reqmts are reduced automatically after Delivery is made to the Particular Order
(In case of Strategy 11, the PIRs are consumed after the GR for Production Order)

Q. Cant one material be assigned to more than one operation in a routing?

One material from a BOM CANNOT be assigned to different Operations.

It can be done by defining the material for so many times as required in the BOM

Q. How to insert an inspection checkpoint at the end of an operation?

If in process sample is to be defined, assign inspection type 03 in the Material Master. Then create MICs
and assign them in the Routings. System automatically generates the Inspection Lots

Q. Where we have to specify the teardown time in one operation?

Teardown time can be defined as one of the Standard Parameters

Q. How the process time is calculated in a WC when both labour, Machine categories exist?

Scheduling is done based on the Capacity Category we define in the Work Center

Q. How to create object dependencies in a BOM FOR A CONFIGURABLE MATERIAL?

Go to Extras -> Object Dependency -> Assign

For this U need to create Characteristics and Class (of Class Type 300) earlier