Production Planning - Process Industries (PP-PI) (SAP Library - Production Planning

Production Planning - Process Industries (PP-PI)

With the component PP-PI (Production Planning for Process Industries), SAP provides an integrated planning tool for batch-oriented process manufacturing. It has been developed in cooperation with IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH, Saarbrücken.

It is primarily designed for the chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries as well as the batch-oriented electronics industry. PP-PI supports:

The integrated planning of production, waste disposal, and transport activities within a plant
The integration of plants within the company:

Vertically by means of an information flow, ranging from central business applications down to process control
Horizontally by the coordination of planning between production plants, recycling and waste disposal facilities, and production laboratories.

Below, you will find an overview of the areas of functionality covered by PP-PI.

	Resources In this area, you manage the capacities, the production resources, and the personnel you need for production.
	Master Recipes In the master recipe, you describe the processes to be used for producing materials in your plant as well as the resources and ingredients required for production.
	Sales & Operations Planning Long-Term Planning Demand Management Material Requirements Planning In this area, you carry out rough-cut planning on a cross-company basis. Using this data, you can then carry out detailed planning on the plant level in PP-PI.
	Capacity Requirements Planning In capacity requirements planning, you determine available capacities and capacity requirements. Based on this data, you then allocate operations to resources.
	Process Orders In a process order, you copy the process described in a master recipe and adjust it to the actual production run.
	Process Management In this area, you coordinate the communication between PP-PI and process control during the execution of a process order.
	Production Information Management By offering a link to optical archives, this function enables you to document order-related planned and actual data in a form that excludes posterior manipulation. It also enables you to evaluate process data using internal and external tools.
	PI-PCS Interface You use this interface to link process control systems to the R/3 System.