Detailed Production Planning

PP/DS focuses on the detailed production planning and scheduling and is therefore mainly concerned with planned orders and production orders. Creating an order contains the steps of calculating the component quantities and the operation durations, and scheduling the operations in the live cache. The prerequisites to create an order are the master data for the products, the resources and the PPMs. In contrast to SAP ERP™ planned orders and production orders (and – if PP-PI is used on SAP ERP™ side – process orders) are not different objects but one object with different categories. Therefore no change in the structure happens when the order type changes.

The order life cycle of a planned order is the conversion to a production order resp. a process order (triggered from SAP APO™ or in SAP ERP™), the release of the production order in SAP ERP™ and its confirmation in SAP ERP™, as shown in figure 15.1.

The order is deleted in SAP APO™ as soon as it is technically completed.

There is no order history in SAP APO™.

The properties of an SAP APO™ order are its category, its fixing indicators, its scheduling status and other flags reflecting the order status in SAP ERP™. Tables 15.1 and 15.2 provide an overview about the order statuses for planned and production orders.