SAP R/3 PP: Production Order Processing and Capacity Planning

Audience

Primarily engineers technicians and experienced employees from various technical and administrative departments. The course is also directed to support controlling manufacturing planning job preparation and other areas of production logistics. There are no prerequisites for participating in the course.

Objective

• Creating and Processing Production Orders.
• Component and Operation Processing.
• Confirming Production Orders.
• Capacity Planning Within the R/3 System.
• The Basics of Capacity Planning.
• Capacity Evaluations.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Processing Production Orders

• Creating Production Orders: - Creating Production Orders. - Creating Production Orders Manually. - Production Orders without Materials.
• Processing Components and Operations: - Processing Components. - Processing Operations. - Processing Missing Parts.
• Confirming Production Orders: - Confirming Orders in R/3. - Entering Standard Confirmations. - Shop Floor Information System. - Order Information System.

Unit 2: Capacity Planning in R/3

• Basics: - Introduction to Capacity Planning. - Available Capacity. - Capacity Requirements.
• Capacity Evaluations: - Standard Overview. - Detailed Capacity List. - Variable Overview.
• Capacity Leveling: - Principles of Capacity Leveling. - Interactive Capacity Planning Table.

Duration

4

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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