SAP PP Professional Program

• SAP PP Professional Program is a 5-month practical training path for learners who want to build career-ready skills in SAP Production Planning, manufacturing support, production execution, shop floor coordination and S/4HANA manufacturing roles.

• The program starts with SAP ERP, S/4HANA and PP foundations, then moves step by step into enterprise structure, production organization, material master, BOM, work centers, routings, demand management, planning strategies, MRP, production orders, confirmations and goods movements.

• Students learn how SAP PP supports the complete manufacturing cycle, from demand planning and material requirement calculation to planned order conversion, production order release, component issue, operation confirmation, goods receipt and order status review.

• The course is designed with practical labs, business scenarios, configuration awareness, reporting practice and support-ticket thinking so learners understand both transaction flow and the business reason behind every SAP PP step.

• Learners practice production master data validation, BOM and routing checks, MRP result analysis, planned order interpretation, production order processing, backflush awareness, capacity review, confirmation accuracy and integration with MM, SD, FI/CO, QM and warehouse processes.

• The training also introduces S/4HANA PP, Fiori apps, embedded analytics, classic SAP reporting, migration checks, testing discipline, cutover readiness and production support documentation.

• By the end of the program, students can explain SAP PP concepts confidently, support production planning users, identify common master data and planning issues, prepare project documentation and present a portfolio-ready SAP PP capstone during interviews.

• Build a strong foundation in SAP Production Planning by understanding the SAP ERP and S/4HANA ecosystem, SAP GUI, Fiori apps, modules, business processes, consultants, users and support teams.

• Learn the scope of SAP PP including demand planning, material planning, BOM, routing, work centers, production orders, confirmations and shop floor execution.

• Understand the business process view from forecast demand to planned independent requirements, MRP run, planned order conversion, production execution, confirmation and final stock update.

• Practice SAP navigation including client, company code, plant, storage location, MRP area awareness, transaction codes, Fiori tiles, favorites and user menus.

• Understand document concepts such as master data, planned orders, production orders, reservation documents, material documents, confirmation records and order status flow.

• Learn the SAP PP consultant role including requirement gathering, master data validation, configuration support, planning analysis, testing, user training and ticket resolution.

• Build manufacturing terminology such as make-to-stock, make-to-order, BOM, routing, work center, production version, MRP type, planning strategy and backflush.

• Understand SAP project lifecycle awareness including blueprint, realization, testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, hypercare support, change requests and enhancements.

• Develop documentation discipline through process notes, configuration records, master data sheets, test evidence, screenshots, issue logs and training guides.

• Lab outcome: navigate SAP screens, identify PP objects, map manufacturing flow, read sample production documents and create a basic process summary.

• Understand how SAP PP uses enterprise structure and organizational assignments to control planning, production, execution and reporting.

• Learn enterprise structure basics including client, company code, plant, storage location, MRP area awareness, work center location and valuation area relationship.

• Study the role of plant in production as a manufacturing site, planning unit, inventory location, production execution point, reporting level and integration hub.

• Understand storage location design for raw material storage, semi-finished stock, finished goods stock, issue location, receipt location and stock visibility control.

• Learn MRP area concepts such as plant MRP area, storage-location MRP area, subcontractor MRP area, planning scope and business use cases.

• Understand production planning control through MRP controller, production scheduler, scheduling margin key, availability check group awareness and planning ownership.

• Study factory calendar and shift awareness, including working days, holidays, production scheduling relevance, lead time calculation and capacity planning impact.

• Learn number ranges and document types for planned orders, production orders, confirmations, material documents and traceability through production flow.

• Discuss common issues such as wrong plant assignment, missing storage location, incorrect MRP area, inactive calendar, scheduling mismatch and master data inconsistencies.

• Lab outcome: design a sample production organization, map plant and storage locations, check assignments and document configuration behavior.

• Learn the production master data required for planning, costing, scheduling and production execution in SAP PP and S/4HANA.

• Understand material master views including basic data, MRP views, work scheduling view, accounting view, units, procurement type, special procurement and planning data.

• Study important MRP view fields such as MRP type, MRP controller, lot size, reorder point, safety stock, planned delivery time, in-house production time and strategy group.

• Learn Bill of Material basics including header material, components, quantities, item category, validity dates, alternatives, usage, base quantity and engineering change awareness.

• Understand BOM use cases such as finished goods structure, semi-finished assemblies, raw material explosion, component requirement calculation and cost estimate support.

• Learn work center basics including capacity category, scheduling data, costing data, formulas, standard values, responsible person and plant assignment.

• Study routing basics including operations, work centers, control keys, standard times, sequences, component allocation, inspection point awareness and scheduling relevance.

• Understand production version as the link between material, BOM, routing, validity, lot size range and S/4HANA manufacturing relevance.

• Discuss master data quality issues such as missing BOM, inactive routing, wrong production version, MRP not planning, capacity not calculated and costing or scheduling mismatch.

• Lab outcome: review material master, create BOM notes, map routing operations, check work center data and build a master data validation checklist.

• Understand how business demand is entered, consumed, planned and converted into procurement and production proposals.

• Learn demand management through forecast, sales demand, planned independent requirements, customer orders, consumption logic and planning triggers.

• Practice planned independent requirements including PIR creation, period split, requirement quantity, planning horizon, version awareness and demand maintenance discipline.

• Understand make-to-stock planning, forecast-driven production, inventory availability, finished goods stock, sales order consumption and planning strategy awareness.

• Understand make-to-order planning, sales-order-driven demand, individual requirements, customer-specific planning, pegging awareness and order fulfillment logic.

• Study planning strategies such as strategy group concept, requirement type, requirement class awareness, consumption mode and business scenario selection.

• Learn consumption logic including backward consumption, forward consumption, consumption periods, forecast reduction and planning result interpretation.

• Connect sales and operations through demand handoff from business planning, sales forecast, production plan, inventory target and service-level thinking.

• Discuss common issues such as PIR not consumed, wrong strategy group, demand not visible in MRP, duplicate demand, date mismatch and incorrect requirement type.

• Lab outcome: create a demand scenario, maintain PIR, compare make-to-stock and make-to-order flow, review consumption and document planning strategy behavior.

• Master material requirements planning by understanding how SAP calculates shortages and creates procurement or production proposals.

• Learn MRP overview concepts including demand, stock, receipts, issues, safety stock, lead times, lot sizing, procurement type and net requirements calculation.

• Understand MRP master data such as MRP type, lot size, procurement type, special procurement, scheduling margin key, planned delivery time and in-house production time.

• Study planning run awareness including single-item planning, total planning concept, planning file, regenerative planning, net change planning and planning scope.

• Learn planned orders including creation, dates, quantities, component requirements, conversion, rescheduling, firming awareness and production proposal interpretation.

• Understand purchase requisitions from MRP for externally procured components, vendor sourcing awareness, planned delivery time and MM handoff.

• Study lot sizing such as lot-for-lot, fixed lot size, minimum lot size, maximum lot size, rounding value and period lot size awareness.

• Learn exception messages including shortage, reschedule in, reschedule out, cancel process, missing data, lead time issue and planner action notes.

• Analyze stock requirements lists with receipts, requirements, available quantity, pegging awareness, filters and day-wise planning analysis.

• Lab outcome: run an MRP scenario, review planned orders, analyze stock requirements, convert proposals and prepare an MRP exception report.

• Learn the complete production order process from planned order conversion to shop floor execution and final goods receipt.

• Understand production order structure including order header, operations, components, dates, quantities, status, settlement receiver awareness and document flow.

• Practice order creation through manual order entry, planned order conversion, order type selection, production plant, basic dates, scheduling type and reference master data.

• Learn order scheduling concepts such as basic dates, scheduled dates, operation dates, floats, lead time, routing times and work center data impact.

• Understand component overview through BOM explosion, reservations, backflush indicator, storage location, batch awareness and component availability checks.

• Study order release including release status, availability check awareness, missing parts list, capacity check awareness and shop floor authorization to start work.

• Learn goods issue to order through planned issue, unplanned issue awareness, movement type 261, backflush, material document and stock impact.

• Understand confirmation process including operation confirmation, yield, scrap, rework awareness, activity posting, milestone confirmation and final confirmation.

• Learn goods receipt from order including finished goods receipt, movement type 101, order completion, stock update, accounting impact and order history.

• Lab outcome: create production order, release order, post goods issue, confirm operation, post goods receipt and review order history.

• Understand production execution postings, confirmations, stock movements and the business impact of shop floor data accuracy.

• Learn confirmation overview including operation progress, yield quantity, scrap quantity, rework awareness, setup time, machine time, labor time and final confirmation.

• Compare partial and final confirmation through confirmed quantities, remaining work, milestones, automatic goods movement awareness and completion status.

• Understand backflushing concepts including automatic component issue, BOM component settings, work center or routing controls awareness and stock accuracy dependency.

• Learn goods issue to production through material withdrawal, reservation consumption, movement type 261, batch and storage location checks and reversal awareness.

• Learn goods receipt from production including finished or semi-finished receipt, movement type 101, stock update, inspection stock awareness and GR reversal concept.

• Study scrap and rework awareness including component scrap, operation scrap, assembly scrap, reason codes awareness and cost or planning impact.

• Interpret order statuses such as created, released, partially confirmed, finally confirmed, delivered, technically completed, closed and their business meaning.

• Understand settlement awareness through order cost collection, activity cost, material cost, variance analysis, WIP awareness and FI/CO handoff concept.

• Lab outcome: post partial confirmation, final confirmation, goods issue, goods receipt, reversal notes and confirmation accuracy checklist.

• Learn how SAP PP uses work center capacity, routing times, production versions and scheduling logic to create realistic production plans.

• Understand capacity planning through available capacity, required capacity, overload, bottleneck, utilization, work center calendar and planning level.

• Study work center capacity data including capacity category, formulas, operating time, shift sequence awareness, capacity header and scheduling relevance.

• Learn routing standard values such as setup time, machine time, labor time, base quantity, control key, operation sequence and lead time calculation.

• Understand scheduling basics including forward scheduling, backward scheduling, basic dates, scheduled dates, floats, queue time, move time and wait time awareness.

• Analyze capacity evaluation using work center load, overload review, capacity requirements, detailed scheduling awareness and planner action options.

• Learn finite scheduling awareness including realistic capacity constraints, priority decisions, dispatching concept and limitations in basic PP environments.

• Understand production version control with BOM-routing selection, validity dates, lot size range, planning suitability and S/4HANA manufacturing relevance.

• Discuss common issues such as capacity not calculated, wrong dates, invalid production version, overloaded work center, incorrect operation time and scheduling mismatch.

• Lab outcome: analyze work center capacity, review routing times, compare scheduling results, check production version and prepare a bottleneck report.

• Connect SAP PP with real manufacturing scenarios and surrounding SAP modules used in projects and support work.

• Understand repetitive manufacturing awareness including product cost collector, rate routing awareness, backflush, planned orders, reporting point concept and high-volume production use cases.

• Learn process manufacturing awareness including recipe concept, process order concept, phases, resources, batch management relevance and chemical or pharma use cases.

• Study external processing awareness where operations are sent to vendors, purchase requisitions are generated, service receipt concepts apply and MM integration is required during production.

• Understand subcontracting integration through component supply to vendor, subcontracting procurement awareness, production planning dependency and stock tracking.

• Learn MM integration through component procurement, stock availability, goods issue, goods receipt, reservation, batch awareness and inventory reporting.

• Learn SD integration through make-to-order planning, sales order demand, availability checks, delivery requirements, finished goods stock and customer fulfillment.

• Understand FI/CO integration through material valuation, activity cost, production order cost, variance, settlement, WIP awareness and accounting document impact.

• Explore QM and warehouse integration through inspection lots, quality stock, usage decisions, staging, picking, storage locations, EWM or WM awareness and production supply coordination.

• Lab outcome: map integration points, document repetitive manufacturing flow, review external processing scenario and prepare cross-module support notes.

• Connect classic SAP PP knowledge with S/4HANA user experience, analytics, Fiori apps and modern production monitoring.

• Understand S/4HANA PP overview including simplified data model awareness, MRP Live concept, production version relevance, Fiori-first experience and real-time manufacturing insight.

• Learn SAP Fiori basics such as launchpad, tiles, roles, app search, worklists, analytical cards, approvals and user-friendly transaction alternatives.

• Explore planning apps for material coverage, monitoring material shortages, managing planned orders, scheduling MRP runs and planning issue monitoring.

• Explore production execution apps for managing production orders, releasing orders, confirming operations, monitoring operations and reviewing order progress.

• Study reporting areas such as stock requirements, planned orders, production orders, confirmations, missing parts, capacity load, order costs and delivery readiness.

• Understand embedded analytics through CDS views, KPI tiles, drilldown reports, filters, variants and real-time business insight.

• Review classic reporting such as MD04, MD05, CO01, CO02, CO03, COOIS, MMBE, MB51, C223 and CM01 awareness with variants and layout discipline.

• Discuss Fiori support issues such as missing tile, authorization problem, app launch error, wrong role, data not visible and filter or variant confusion.

• Lab outcome: review PP Fiori process apps, create report variants, analyze shortages and orders and prepare production KPI explanation notes.

• Build project-ready confidence by learning SAP PP configuration areas, testing discipline, migration checks and support scenarios.

• Understand configuration areas such as plant parameters, MRP controllers, order types, order number ranges, scheduling parameters, confirmation parameters and availability check awareness.

• Learn master data configuration awareness including material types, BOM usage, routing control keys, work center formulas, production versions and field control concepts.

• Study MRP configuration awareness including planning types, lot sizing procedures, special procurement keys, strategy groups, planning horizon and MRP group concepts.

• Understand order control through order-type-dependent parameters, settlement profile awareness, status management, confirmation control and goods movement behavior.

• Practice testing discipline with unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, test scripts, expected results, screenshots and defect tracking.

• Understand data migration awareness for material master, BOM, routing, work center, production version, open planned orders, open production orders and validation checks.

• Learn cutover readiness including master data freeze, open order strategy, stock accuracy, MRP run plan, issue log, rollback awareness and business sign-off.

• Practice support-ticket method: reproduce issue, collect transaction data, check master data, analyze logs or messages, identify root cause and document fix.

• Lab outcome: prepare configuration notes, write test scripts, validate migration sheets, analyze support tickets and build a cutover checklist.

• Complete the course with a portfolio-ready SAP PP project, interview preparation, support confidence and presentation practice.

• Plan the capstone using business requirement, plant structure, master data, demand scenario, MRP plan, production order process, reporting and test scope.

• Build the project by creating master data notes, maintaining demand, running MRP, reviewing planned orders, converting production orders, executing confirmation and posting goods receipt.

• Prepare configuration evidence such as order type notes, scheduling parameter awareness, MRP settings, confirmation behavior, availability check notes and production version example.

• Prepare integration evidence including component stock review, goods issue document, finished goods receipt, order cost awareness, quality check awareness and production reporting.

• Practice support-ticket handling by classifying issues, collecting screenshots, reproducing transactions, checking master data, identifying root cause, proposing fixes and verifying results.

• Build a documentation package with process flow, master data checklist, MRP result, production order screenshots, test scripts, issue log, reports and known limitations.

• Review interview topics including enterprise structure, material master, BOM, routing, work center, demand management, MRP, production order, confirmation, capacity and integration.

• Prepare career direction for SAP PP consultant, production planning support consultant, S/4HANA manufacturing associate, ERP analyst and support engineer roles.

• Final outcome: deliver a portfolio-ready SAP PP capstone and confidently explain planning, production, execution, integration and support skills.