Material Requirements Planning

Material requirements planning entails establishing and managing a balanced manufacturing plan that incorporates master production schedules, sales forecasts, inventory levels, open orders, and bills of material.

  • Effectively monitor stock-outs using guidance from material requirements planning.
  • Automatically generate procurement proposals for purchasing and production needs.
  • Empower production planners to ensure materials are available when needed, whether procured or produced.
  • Utilize user-friendly material requirements planning cockpits to achieve an optimal balance between maintaining service levels and reducing costs.

Predictive Material & Resource planning

Predictive material and resource planning involves simulating production to evaluate material and capacity requirements​.​

  • Support mid- and long-term demand scenario simulation.
  • Evaluate capacity, production, purchasing, and internal material flow in production plants on a detailed level.
  • Resolve capacity and material gaps in a plant before they occur​.

Production Scheduling

Schedule and assign production orders to work centers, and plan shop floor setups and operations using a graphical planning board. This tool allows for visual management of production activities, enhancing efficiency and coordination.

  • Optimize production by assigning work centers to production orders.
  • Prioritize production orders based on resource constraints.
  • Perform short-term shop floor planning for last-minute flexibility.

Capacity Planning

Capacity planning entails allocating resources to balance workload and scheduling production steps in manufacturing. This involves ensuring that the right resources are available at the right time to meet production demands efficiently.

  • Deliver on time every time by integrating planning, scheduling, and execution to gain a real-time view of inventory, capacity, and material flow.
  • Optimize resources by considering finite capacity, sequencing, setup, and material availability.
  • Meet industry-specific production planning and sequencing needs with configurable multilevel scheduling.

Manufacturing Operations

1. Production Execution

Production Execution involves controlling, monitoring, and automating manufacturing operations to enhance production schedules.

  • Utilize real-time data from customers, suppliers, and the shop floor to streamline these schedules.
  • Monitor released production and process orders effectively with automated information updates.
  • Confirm production progress and facilitate the initiation of finalization tasks through order confirmations and work-in-process functions.
  • Document and maintain production information with integrated data updating features.
  • Just-In-Time Manufacturing involves leveraging lean, flexible techniques to replenish components from internal sources and external suppliers or to deliver products to customers requesting components just-in-time.
  • Kanban manufacturing involves executing optimal production and material flow using lean control methods and continuous Kaizen improvements to drive timely production. Comprehensive manufacturing and supply chain visibility facilitate improved Kanban processing through lean replenishment for external and internal material flows.
  • • Outsourced manufacturing involves the control of production operations outsourced to external contractors including the delivery of components to the subcontractor, inventory visibility, and backflushing of component consumption.

2. Production Control

Production control involves control in handling materials, parts, and assemblies from initial to finished-product stages.

  • Coordinate manufacturing with engineering, sales, purchasing, and production.​
  • Integrate core processes, and support language and localization requirements. ​
  • Adjust plans and schedules with real-time information from customers, suppliers, and the plant floor. ​
  • Improve management of raw-material procurement, production operations, stock transfers, and delivery to customers.​

3. Production Insights

Manufacturing analytics involve measuring operational performance to react quickly with the necessary adjustments.

  • Utilize manufacturing analytics to assess operations performance effectively.
  • Make timely operational adjustments in response to changing conditions.
  • Bridge the gap between global enterprise strategy and local plant execution with the aid of manufacturing analytics.
  • Implement real-time alerts for production bottlenecks, like time or component delays, to minimize shortfalls.

See also the benefits of utilizing SAP S/4 HANA in

Finance & Controlling

Supply Chain (Purchasing)

Supply Chain Management

Product Engineering

Manufacturing

Quality Management

Sales

Project Control

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