Duration
2 days
Goals
- This course will prepare you to:
- Explain the materials planning process in Materials Management and Operations
- Use the different consumption-based MRP procedures
- Describe the forecasting technique and its function
Audience
- Application Consultant
- Business Process Architect
- Business Process Owner / Team Lead / Power User
- Program / Project Manager
- User
Prerequisites
Essential
- S4500 (Business Processes in SAP S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement)
- corresponding SAP knowledge in materials management area * Recommended
- None
Course based on software release
- SAP S/4HANA 1809
Content
- Consumption-Based Planning
- Describing the basics and prerequisites of material requirements planning (MRP)
- Outlining different MRP procedures
- Maintaining the material master for consumption-based planning
- Setting up a reorder point plan
- Planning Run
- Describing the planning run
- Executing a planning run
- Converting planning results
- Evaluating the planning results
- Calculating lot sizes
- Outlining MRP Live
- Forecasting
- Explaining basics of the forecast
- Executing and postprocessing the forecast
- Performing forecast-based planning
- Performing the time-phased planning
- Performing automatic reorder point planning
- Additional Options in Consumption-Based Planning
- Explaining source determination in materials planning
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.