To guarantee seamless operations in SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), effective work order management is essential. SAP PM provides the idea of a User Status Profile to speed up the process and enforce control over order release. We will delve into the definition of User Status Profile, its importance in limiting order release, and how it....

Today, I will show you, how to use new function, provided by SAP for Advanced Production Integration – quantity calculation for staging, based on PMR calculation. All screens comes from S/4Hana 2021 Embedded EWM. Introduction: As SAP documentation said:   Quantity proposal You can define a minimum quantity for the product on the PSA. If....

Definition- The target production supply area (PSA) defines the production supply area of the next production step.It is used if a semifinished product remains in production and is needed for a subsequent production step.     Dependencies-->If the storage location, where the semifinished product is placed upon order confirmation or goods receipt, is not managed by....

Background: After SAP implementation, one of the very common issues from the business is about storage location authorization. When business having multiple storage location for same material, business expect to consume the stock from defined storage location but in SAP, system allows the user to post the stock from any storage location even though storage....

In this blogpost, we will review the pre-requisites that must be taken into account while implementing SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for Planning and Scheduling side by side to an SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA on-premise system. In this scenario, advanced production planning would run on the DSC edition while production execution will happen on the on-premise ERP or....

In Std SAP we have many pre configured migration object which you can get it from here, https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_S4HANA_ON-PREMISE/d3a3eb7caa1842858bf0372e17ad3909/8dd142b479f9481891fa8b3f86648df3.html In this blogs  I will sharing process or steps are involved in data migration in S/4HANA by using staging tables also will try to write blogs for all PP master data’s like in further blogs, Bill of....

In this blog, I am going to brief, how we can restrict material/component reservation when Process order/production order is having Created (CRTD) system status. Business Requirement, System should not reserve the stock for production/process order component until and unless the order status set to ”Released” (REL) by the business users. To fulfill the business requirement....

Most of us know the Over delivery and Under delivery tolerance use for Purchase Order. SAP has provided similar kind of function for Production/ Process order. I was unable to find the blog on this functionality so decided to make one. Here I will try to explain the use of Over delivery and Under delivery....

My recent article Hyperspeed planning in SAP TM has explained TM ⇔ delivery integration issues when statistical stages are used and delivery transportation planning status is “partially planned“. The delivery date can get inconsistent in such a scenario, it can even get earlier then the picking date! The delivery integration problem is even more severe as it....

Hope all doing well, After long time I am writing this blogs to give you all insights about Planning result valuation in Pegged requirement report (MD09). Basically MRP calculation will be complex formula also will be multiple source of data as it was taking data from different applications area like sales order, Purchase order and....

Today, I would like to highlight S4H 2022 changes / addition in SAP e-PPDS. Calculating multilevel time buffers for components to fulfil customer demand   Provide decision support for multilevel planning by calculation and visualization of time buffers in multitier supply chains: Calculate time-buffer information on order and operation level regarding its predecessor, successor, and....

In SAP rework orders are created using trigger point. This blog present, creation of rework order with help of trigger point but we will be using reason for variance to create rework order. Status profile: A status profile contains the individual user statuses and the business transaction rules defined for those statuses. You can define....

SAP has published a report called PP_MRP_SUPPORT (Note 3199068), which can assist in analyzing issues that may arise in the MRP environment. The report provides access to: MRP-relevant material master data, Sourcing Master data for in-house and external replenishment Implemented User Exits and BAdI’s(w/o AMDP BAdI’s) The ability to navigate to customizing settings MRP Background Jobs MRP....

In past, I have already written a blog on Direct ODO creation from EWM which creates replenishment delivery and corresponding STO PO between 2 Plants. The current blog is an attempt to explain how DirODO can be integrated with Shipping and Receiving functionality with Pallets build up at Production supply Area using Advanced Production Integration with RF....

Intro: Writing my 1st blog on SAP Community Network. I am writing this blog on “Scope of Availability Check” and it’s impact on Production order. While doing implementation for client I come across this requirement and I thought to share with SAP community. Here I am trying my best to describe like even freshers who just....

This is the Most commonly faced/reported issue during MRP run Issue Reported During the MRP run, System not creating any Procurement proposals and getting the message “No procurement proposals changed” even though there is a clear requirement. More details of the issue: Current requirements are reflecting in MD04 Screen (PIRs of quantities 1000,2000,3000). for the....

There are many blog posts on this subject. However, I was not aware that SAP note exists on this subject. For the benefit of all the consultants who may not have access to SAP notes, I am putting the contents of the note here. This is the most asked question while implementing S4H.   2640393....

As most of the folks are aware of the ECR and ECO functionality for the change Management for the BOM, Master recipe, Material Master etc. This functionality was phased out in S4/HANA, and Engineering Record was introduced. This too had some things missing like analyzing the impact etc., so from HANA 2020 SAP introduced Change....

The Stock requirement list is used to display the real time stock situation and all the demand and supply elements. This is (arguably) the most important report for the logistics function in SAP as it displays anything and everything happening in the logistics area. This is a dynamic list which displays real time situation every....

Business Scenario: During the Confirmation of the Process Order, which is activated with Backflush (Auto GI, during the confirmation), System is not allowing the Additional Good issues/increase the Component Quantity manually. Getting the Error message, when saving the Confirmation. Execution Steps as follws below Create the Process Order using the T Code: COR1 In this....

Welcome to the next blog. In the last blog we focused on creation of manufacturing bill of material. If you have missed it please find the link below. Conversion of Engineering BOM to Manufacturing BOM (VEMP) | SAP Blogs In this blog we will discuss about Shop floor routing. Shop floor routing usage and concept....

  Purpose / Pain Area:  The purpose of this blogpost is to explain how we can exclude reserved & under-quality component stock during batch determination of Process Order / Production Order. Use:  Sometimes, we get a requirement from customer that we want to exclude reserved & under-quality stock against batch by other process orders / production....

Purpose: Purpose of this blogpost for understanding about baseline SAP PP Configuration steps of S4Hana, this blog consists of a comprehensive configuration screenshots of Production Planning, based on SAP S4Hana. Use: Baseline 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....

Purpose: understanding about difference between MRP and MPS. This question we often get from business / peoples because there are few key differences between MRP & MPS. MRP: The planned and the exact requirement quantities trigger the net requirements calculation. The requirement elements of this calculation include sales orders, planned independent requirements, material reservations, dependent requirements received from BOM....

This blog will be useful for people working in the areas of SAP Production Planning (PP) or SAP Material Management (MM) as this is a crossfunctional area. Here I am trying to focus on one of the extensively used functionalities in SAP PP i.e MRP. As many of you know, MRP is a very complex....

Hello Everyone, The following process will shed light on how to remove discrepancies related to sale orders and deliveries. Problem Statement: The issue is that when a sale order or delivery has been rejected, blocked, or deleted, the quantity of material related to that sale order or delivery is displayed in MD04. Due to these....

Hello Everyone, The following process will shed light on how to remove discrepancies related to Purchase Orders/Scheduling Agreements, Purchase Requisitions and Reservations. Problem Statement: The issue is that when a Purchase Orders/Scheduling Agreements, Purchase Requisitions and Reservations has been rejected, blocked, or deleted, the quantity of material related to that document is displayed in MD04.....

Hello all and welcome to yet another Blog. Here I will be mentioning a few prospects and functionality of Buyoffs, why is it so important and how it can be used. In SAP PEO, we have an additional functionality as Buyoffs. Buyoffs are an additional step for the confirmation of an activity.   As mentioned....

Hello Everyone, The following process will shed light on how to delete a component from a Maintenance or Service Order. Problem Statement: The issue is that business is unable to delete a component/material from a Maintenance or Service Order permanently and the quantity of that component/material is displayed in MD04. Due to this issue, the....

I have been seeing several questions on how to delete production or process orders with mass processing transactions COHV and COHVPI. This article explains deletion flag and deletion indicator of production orders and shows how to maintain them with mass processing transactions. Through the article I refer to production orders or to the COHV transaction.....

We all are aware of how important this transaction is. This blog post is a repost of a Linkedin Blog based on a document created by Chaitanya Bhangale. Purpose of Automatic account determination : When good movement is entered, if the G/L account is to be posted  manually it is quite impossible to recollect and feed the....

Today, I would like to introduce an amazing feature that Process / Production Order component changes allowed in SAP ECC & S4HANA for any operations as per business requirements. Generally we do addition or deletion of components by going to CO02 transaction and then to component overview and do the operation. But what if we....

The main purpose of the Shelf-life inspection to provide solution on extension of Shelf-life of Raw materials as per SOP / QA (Quality Assurance) / QC (Quality Control) Decisions based on inspection of required material with required characteristics. Shelf-life inspection concept has been introduced in SAP ECC & S/4HANA with purpose to simplify Shelf-life extension....

Let’s start with a new series of Blogs to know about the objects and functions of SAP PEO, its features and usability. For SAP PEO the main highlight that makes it different is, the use of Version BOMs instead of normal BOMs. Version BOM’s key aspects needs to be understood before getting into further details. Version BOMs....

Welcome again to the series. In the previous post I had illustrated how we can create EBOM. Version Bill of Material creation ´(SAP PEO) | SAP Blogs After the creation of the EBOM, it is converted into a version controlled manufacturing BOM so that the production of the product can be started. Manufacturing BOM is....

In SAP ECC and S/4 HANA, during production order/process order confirmation of Batch managed material like finished goods, semi finished goods we get default dialogue box for entering Date of Manufacture and we will have to enter the date manually. Business Requirement :- In order to avoid manual work, sometimes business will ask for requirement that Date....

Objective- Determination of Crate Part Replenishment separate Item types in PMR document in EWM Determination of PSA bin from /SCWM/PSASTAGE table when HUs are closed from Packing Work center instead of hard coding PSA bins at WPT Synopsis: When manufacturing order is released having the BOM components, EWM system should be able to determine dynamically....

in this blog post we will explain the mandatory knowledge to handle all authorization activity related to creating Fiori catalog and tile group also assign both objects to the authorized user using PFCG Blog content Create Fiori catalog Create new app for any transaction code Create custom Fiori group Assign the catalog to authorization role....

Sometimes it is best to have a simple chart to understand connections between different parts. Therefore, I will be sharing my chart on flow of SOP & production planning chart with related transaction codes.  Also, I will be adding links of SAP blog post to provide details of topics. Production planning may require to flow....

Customer fields in process order transactions (COR1/COR2/COR3) : PPCO0020 Screen Exit Objective In this blog post we are going to create a custom tab for Process Order transactions (COR1/COR2/COR3) with below 3 additional fields: Reason for Schedule Variance (Drop down options) Schedule End Date (Non-editable) Schedule End Time (Non-editable) Step-by-step procedure: Part 1: Custom field....

SAP PP Long Term Planning (LTP) Overview Long-term planning (LTP) Is SAP PP procedure in which the simulative MRP run is used by production planners to compare various production scenarios concerning material requirement, vendor availability, and capacity planning for all materials listed in the Bill Of Materials (BOM). Using LTP, planners are able to establish the impact....

In this blog post, we will cover the basic system settings and process flow to have synchronous GR and GI with production orders in S4 HANA EWM 2020. Before S4 HANA 2020, When we do confirmation of the  production order then IBD will be created for receiving of FG/SFG, and OBD will be created for....

LSMW and LTMC are weak on complexity of routing. Component allocation, PRT assignment, etc. is hard to manage with these standart tools. Therefore i developped a flexible program that you can upload a whole excel with multiple sheets at once.   Details In the selection screen below, you can map your excel details. Routing Upload....

This document aims to provide detailed step by step implementing fast entry of characteristics in Order Confirmation. This document encompasses screenshots of the steps to be followed. Characteristics value assignment of a batch class in production process is essentially important for a product where the product holds a batch specification. Using fast entry of characteristics,....

I recently was exploring the SAP Query Browser (App IDF1068) on SAP S/4HANA 2020. Query Browser The SAP Query Browser allows you to view, retrieve & analyse different data using analytical queries & is a powerful Fiori app for embedded analytics. I found a lot of information on SAP Query Browser available online, some of....

Hi, I created a LSMW using RCSBI030 program which uses batch input method. The variant BOM is getting created but the component item id is not copied from the parent BOM. This makes viewing and changing component from CS05 difficult. I tried by giving the component sequence same as the parent BOM in the upload....

we have a raw material that is procured from vendor using Kanban. Now Vendor is asking us to give an idea (forecast) of what we will be requesting so he can make his arrangements.   how can I give/generate him our requirements? at this point of time this material has mrp type ND in the....

Hi All, Today we are going to have a look at the rounding value in the material master (MRP 1 view) and try to figure how does it really work. In certain cases, the product can be produced in specific quantities to match the deliverable quantities. For example The product “X” can be only delivered in ballets every....