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SAP Production Planning module overview - SAP ERP Tutorial
From the course: Learning SAP Production Planning
SAP Production Planning module overview
- The SAP production planning module is crucial to manufacturing businesses. Known as SAP PP, this module quite literally enables effective planning and the execution of production. With new SAP terminology, these functions are now part of what's called the manufacturing line of business. In what was once a seldom heard about business area, the supply chain is becoming a hot topic. Customers want their products and they want them now. In production planning and S/4HANA is the module that helps meet those demands. So why is SAP production planning so useful and important to manufacturing companies? First, PP is the SAP module that's responsible for lining up the demand for a product with a company's manufacturing capacity. PP also synchronizes demand with procurement schedules to make sure we have all the materials necessary so production can take place. Production planning is the back end that powers these crucial logistics processes. Major examples of these processes are; material…
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