SAP PP Configuration Steps

Purpose:

Purpose of this document to understanding about basic SAP PP

Configuration steps of S4Hana, this blog consists of a comprehensive
configuration screenshots of Production Planning, based on SAP S4Hana.

Use: SAP PP configuration to execute manufacturing transactions for

business run without any hassle. The configuration steps have mappings to
corresponding menu path to where the configuration has been done in the
IMG (Implementation Guide).

Steps:

o Define Material Types Allowed for BOM Header: Define

the material types in conjunction with BOM usages that are
allowed for the BOM header material. You make these
settings; you can make a generic entry in the fields for the
BOM usage and the material type.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic Data
> Bill of Material > General Data > Define Material Types Allowed for BOM
Header

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 o Define Allowed Material Types for BOM Items: Define the
material types in conjunction with BOM usages that are
allowed for the BOM items. You can make a generic entry in
the fields “BOM usg”, “Mat type headr”, and “Mtype BOM
item”.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic Data
> Bill of Material > Item Data > Define Allowed Material Types for BOM
Items

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 o Person Responsible for Work Center: Person responsible in
work center is a person who will maintain (Create, Change
work center) in SAP based upon the changes happening on the
Shop floor.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic

Data > Master Data > Work Center > General Data > Determine
Person Responsible

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 o Parameters: Define parameters, which you then assign to
the standard value keys. You can assign any meaning to these
standard values. Please keep in mind that the meaning of the
fields is specified by the key words.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic Data
> Master Data > Work Center > General Data > Standard Value > Define
Parameters

o Standard Value Keys: The standard value key determines

the meaning of the six standard values in the operation. The
SAP System assigns a parameter ID to the standard values of
the operation and the work in network activities.

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 Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic
Data > Master Data >
Work Center > General Data > Standard Value > Define Standard
Value Key

o Define control key: The Control Key you can define Business
functions to be carried out with operation.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic

Data > Master Data >
Work Center > General Data > Standard Value > Define Standard
Value Key

o Define Formulas for Work Centers: Create the formulas for

work centers that you want to use, for example, for scheduling
or costing.

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 Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production > Basic
Data > Master Data > Work Center > Capacity Planning> Work
Center Formulas> Define formula parameters for work centers

•
o MRP Type: MRP type determines whether and how the
material is planned. This is maintained for each material at
plant level.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production >

Material Requirements Planning> Master Data > Check MRP Types

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 o
MRP Controller: In this step, we define a number that is assigned to
the MRP controller. The MRP controller is a person or a group of persons
responsible for monitoring material availability. We can use the number
entered here, for example, to select the planning results per MRP
controller. Every material that is relevant to the planning run must be
assigned an MRP controller number in the material master record.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production >

Material Requirements

Planning> Master Data > Define MRP Controllers

o MRP Groups: MRP groups are used when the plant division
for planning is not enough for the division of the different
materials MRP requirements. You assign different groups
according to the requirements to run MRP (different Settings).
These settings will be taken in account when you run MRP for
single item or total planning.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Material

Management > Consumption-Based
Planning > MRP Groups > Carry Out Overall Maintenance of MRP
Groups

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 o Lot Size Procedure: The system uses lot-sizing procedure within
materials planning to calculate the quantity to be procured or produced.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production>Material

Requirement
Planning> Planning> Lot-Size Calculation> Check Lot Sizing
Procedure

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 o Scheduling Margin Key: The system uses this key to determine
the floats required for scheduling an order. The key is
maintained for the material at plant level.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production> Material

Requirement
Planning> Planning> Scheduling and Capacity Parameters> Define
Floats (Schedule Margin Key)

o Order Types: The order type relates to the production orders

that are created.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production>Shop

Floor Control> Master
Data> Order> Define Order types

Order-Type-Dependent Parameters: Parameters that are valid for

each order type and plant. Here, you define the data that influences
master data selection or order master data maintenance like BOM
and Routing selection, documents of goods movements, costing
variants and RA keys.

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 Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production>Shop
Floor Control> Master
Data> Order> Define Order-Type-Dependent Parameters

Planning Tab:

Production versions:

This setting allows you to decide whether the production versions

should be selected manually in the order or it should be selected
automatically depending upon the validity dates or the lot sizes.

Selection ID:

The selection ID mentioned here allows the system to prioritize the

selection of Routing/Recipe types for the order. Routing/Recipe
selection is configured for automatic selection of Routings/Recipe in
the orders.

Task List type:

You can also select the task list type that you mandatorily want to be
selected in the order.

Alternative Sequences Can be Transferred:

If you select this indicator, it is possible to transfer the Alternative

sequences available in the task list, to the order. This indicator works
together with the possibility of sequence exchanges.

Routing Selection:

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 This setting governs the selection method of Routings in the Order
and not the selection of routing types in the order.

Implementation Tab:

The Second View stresses more on passing information of the order

to the database information systems. It is not harmful is you just tick
mark on the indicators.

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 Costing Tab:

Configured by the SAP CO consultants and it deals with the SAP

controlling aspects related to costing of the order and the
maintaining the cost sheets.

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 Display Profile Tab:

The final tab is the Display Profile tab that wants you to enter the
reporting profiles for collective orders and missing part list. You can
as well keep the standard profiles here.

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Production Scheduling Profile: In a production scheduling profile, we can
specify that in a production order particular business transaction are
carried out in parallel
Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production>Shop
Floor Control> Master Data> Define Production Scheduling Profile

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 o Production Supervisor: Define the production supervisors for your
plants. By assigning production supervisors to materials within the
application, you can define responsibilities for a material within
production activity control.

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production>Shop

Floor Control> Master
Data> Define Production Scheduling Profile

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 o Order Type Confirmation Parameters: In this step, we define the
confirmation parameters for each plant and order type. Using
checks, you can define
• what happens when the sequence of operations is not
adhered during confirmation
• what happens when you want to confirm a larger
quantity than was confirmed for the preceding operation
• We can choose between a termination message, an
error message, a warning message, and an information
message.
• whether we want the total confirmed quantity of an
operation checked for under delivery or over delivery
tolerance in the order header
• What effect a QM result recording has on the
confirmation.
o whether dates (for example, posting date, end of lead time,
etc) should also be displayed with a date that is further in the
future than the time of creation

Path: SAP Customizing Implementation Guide > Production>Shop

Floor Control>

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 Operations> Confirmation > Define Confirmation Parameters

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