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Production Planning - Process Industries (PP-PI) Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

The component Production Planning for Process Industries (PP-PI) provides an integrated planning tool for batch-oriented process manufacturing.

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.

 

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Resources

In this area, you manage the capacities, the production resources, and the personnel you need for production.

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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.

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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.

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Capacity Requirements Planning

In capacity requirements planning, you determine available capacities and capacity requirements. Based on this data, you then allocate operations to resources.

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Process Orders

In a process order, you copy the process described in a master recipe and adjust it to the actual production run.

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Process Management

In this area, you coordinate the communication between PP-PI and process control during the execution of a process order.

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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.

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Structure linkPI-PCS Interface

Structure linkSAP ODA (OPC Data Access)

You use these interfaces to link process control systems to the ERP system.

 

 

 

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