SAP PP SOP & DM End User Manual

This document serves as an end-user manual for Production Planning (PP) within SAP, specifically focusing on Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) and Demand Management (DM). SOP is a flexible forecasting and planning tool that aligns sales, production, and supply chain targets based on historical data, while Demand Management determines requirement quantities and delivery dates for finished products. This manual guides users through creating product groups, developing SOP plans, and transferring these plans to Demand Management.

Key Topics/Steps Covered:

    1. Product Groups: This section explains how to create and manage product groups, which are classifications of materials or other product groups based on criteria like manufacturing procedure or market niche. The process involves using transaction codes MC84 (Create), MC86 (Change) or MC85 (Display). The document specifies how to create both single-level (materials only) and multi-level product groups (including other product groups).
    2. Sales & Operations Planning (SOP): This section details creating SOP plans for both materials and product groups in SAP. This involves navigating to transaction codes MC87 (Create for Materials) or MC81 (Create for Product Groups), inputting sales figures, and generating a production plan using calculation based on several method choices. It covers options for aligning the production plan with sales data, target stock levels or stock level = zero. The section also discusses various options for creating sales plans by transferring data or historical figures.
    3. Version Management: This step explains how to manage multiple versions of SOP plans using transaction codes MC78 (Copy) and MC80 (Delete). It describes the process of copying data between versions to enable data manipulation of plans or how one can activate a plan by copying into “A00” (active version).
    4. Disaggregation: This part focuses on how to break down a planning on product group level to the lower material level, also called “Disaggregation” which is a key feature for SOP process. It explains how to distribute planning data from an aggregate level to a detailed level by using transaction code MC76 to disaggregate a product group plan to plant level.
    5. Transfer SOP Plan to Demand Management: This section outlines transferring the production plan created in SOP to Demand Management generating planned independent requirements which determines quantities and due dates to procure/produce material. The relevant transaction codes are MC74 (Transfer Material) and MC75 (Transfer Product Group).
    6. Demand Management: Here, the manual explains that demand management determines the requirement quantities and dates for final products and briefly mentions integration with sales order management. It also explains how to create/change Planned Independent Requirements(PIR’s) using transaction codes MD61, MD62 and MD63.

This manual provides a structured overview for SAP end-users to effectively utilize the Production Planning module by managing product groups, performing Sales and Operation Planning, and transferring plans to Demand Management, which are core processes for production planning.

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