S&OP with SAP ERP Production Planning

by Jawad Akhtar

Balance supply and demand, optimize production processes, and avoid waste with sales and operations planning! Use standard planning (PP-SOP) to devise a simple production plan or use flexible planning (LO-LIS-PLN) to meet more complex planning requirements. Understand version management, forecasting, rough-cut planning, events, and mass processing to get the most out of your SAP PP implementation!

- Use standard functionality (PP-SOP) for your basic S&OP needs
- Take advantage of the flexible planning (LO-LIS-PLN) functionality for complex requirements
- Extend your planning through version management, forecasting, and more

90 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 21, 2016

About the author

Jawad Akhtar earned his Chemical Engineering degree from Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA. He has 17 years of professional experience, of which 10 years is in SAP. He has completed eight end-to-end SAP project implementation lifecycles in the areas of PP, QM, MM, PM and DMS in Steel, Automobile, Chemicals, Fertilizer, FMCG, and Building Products Industries. He has also worked as an SAP Integration Manager, as well as SAP Project Manager, and been proactively involved in a business development and solution architect role for seven years. His profile on LinkedIn is at http://pk.linkedin.com/in/jawadakhtar. You may reach Jawad via email at jawad.akhtar@live.com or follow him on Twitter @jawadahl. Currently, he is associated with AbacusConsulting as Head of SAP Delivery.