- SAP S/4 HANA, Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS): PP/DS aims primarily to optimise production planning and scheduling. As a result, companies can cap the amount of time they take before fulfilling an order, reducing stock levels and improving delivery date commitments.
- Scheduling detail: Within this module are powerful aids that facilitate the generation of schedules as well as managing job tickets considering capacity constraints, material availability and priorities that necessitate their completion before other jobs even when external conditions change.
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) within SAP S/4 HANA PP/DS: This involves precise forecasting based on material requisitions for manufacturing goods, ensuring no overstocks and constant availability of materials in the required quantities at any given time.
- Optimisation and Heuristics: This technique utilises optimisation techniques and heuristics to determine the most feasible production schedules while considering demand and adhering to available stock. It does include things like plant limitations and cost-effective batch size determination aimed at improving efficiency.
- Integration touchpoints with the other modules present in SAP S/4HANA: This relationship is straightforward in that PP/DS talks directly to other SAP modules like SAP MM(Materials Management), SAP SD(Sales and Distribution), and SAP EWM (Extended Warehouse Management).