Useful PP hints and tips to help those consultant supporting the SAP PP modules. 

Production Planning support the planning for the types and quantities of products on demand to assist production.  It includes procurement, warehousing and the transportation of materials and intermediate products from one stage of production to another as well as resource allocation to complete the production process in a timely manner.

MRP Tips
Material Requirements Planning

• BOM components never explode
• BOM Display Changes
• Phantom assembly
• The Concept (use) of Phantom Assembly
• Configuring an Additional Activity Type
• Total Plan Activities in Minutes
• Long term planning bom selection
• Attach The Components Drawing In a BOM
• How To Create a Multilevel BOM and How Does It Work
• PP Integration with FI , SD, MM and QM
• T-Codes Which Are Used In MTO Scenario
• What is Variant Configuration
• What Are Product Group
• BOM Configuration
• SAP PP BOM Self-Evaluation Questions Answers #1
• SAP PP BOM Self-Evaluation Questions Answers #2
• Usage of  a Production Version
• The Bill of Material
• Assign Materia Components
• Configurable Material BOM

• Compare Multiple BOMs / Find BOM Tables
• The Table Names of SAP PP Module
• Which SAP table stores data on BOM item data

• SAP PP Configuration Tcodes
• Configuration Checklist

• Work Center Creation and Change
• What is Work Center
• The Meaning Of Activity Types
• Formulas in Work Centers
• Enter The Work Scheduling Times
• Formulas
• Formulas in Work Center
• Formula Parameters in Work Center

• CA03 - Display Routing
• Operations Overlapping
• Maintain Local Dependency

• Configure a New Production Order Type
• Search for Open Production Order
• Keep track of all back flushing failure during prod confirm
• Print Shop Papers - Configure new/existing SAP Printers
• Control para for prod order conversion from planned order
• Control whether Production Ord operations will be printed
• Change Production Order - CO02
• Mass Processing for Production Order
• Basic dates history in production order
• Same serial number assigned to several production orders
• Meaning of Costing Variant in SAP PP
• Scrap Management in Finished Product
• Inspection Characteristics Indicator in the Control Key
• What Transaction to Perform Discontinued Parts
• Discrete Manufacturing Flow By Tcodes
• Knowledge on Discrete and Repetitive
• Subcontracting In SAP
• Operations in Routing To be Subcontracted
• Purpose of Doing TECO For Production Order
• Work With Production Version Scenario
• Rework Using New Production Order
• Logs and Its Relationship with Production Orders
• Field Key in an Operation or Sub Operation
• Float Before Production
• Production Order Assignment

• Production Order Status
• Facts About Production Order Status

• What is SAP PP Module
• SAP PP Questionnaire
• SAP PP Certification Questions and Answers

• User Requirement Mapping on SAP Production
• Production Planning and Scheduling Business Requirement

• Mass Delete Planned Order
• Firmed Planned Orders, What is its use in Production?
• Difference Between Planned & Prod. Orders
• Standard Values for Planning

• Plant Dependent Data During Copying

• Determine Planned / Production Order included in Cap Plan
• Procedure To Do Capacity Leveling
• Settings in Capacity Planning

• Collective Confirmations in Repeatitive Manufacturing
• GR Not Allowed Before Confirmation
• Control Regular Entry for Material Consumption
• Where Material Can Be Backflushed

• Engineering Change Management Configuration
• Transaction Activities in Engineering Change Management

• SAP KANBAN Functionality

• Production Order Archiving

• Multi-Level BOM Cost Roll-up
• Multi-Level Bom with Location Balance

SAP PP Issues/Problems
SAP PP Discussion Forum

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