S/4HANA Production Planning Integration with MM, FICO, Sales & Distribution Modules

The purpose of this blog is SAP S/4 HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing Integration with

• Material Management

• Finance and Controlling

• Sales & Distribution

• Production

   

  1. Material Management

1.1 Create Purchasing Group

In this step, you can create and change purchasing groups. A purchasing group can be an individual or a group of individuals

1.2 Define Purchasing Document

2. Finance Accounting & Controlling

2.1 Define field Status Variant  

2.2 Define Posting Period Variant 

2.3 Open and Close Posting Period    

2.4  Enter Global Parameters  

2.5 Create G/L Account with reference    

• Click on account determination

2.6 Maintain Controlling

 

3. Material Management

3.1 Configure Automatic Account Determination

3.2 Define Valuation control

3.3 Group together Valuation area

3.3 Maintain Company code to Material Management

3.4 Define Attributes to Material Type

3.5 Assign Currency Type and Define Material Ledger type

3.6 Assign Material Ledger Type to Valuation Area   

3.7 Activate Material Ledger Type to Valuation Area

• Activate Material ledger

3.7 Make Material Ledger Productive to Plant

4. Sales & Distribution

4.1 Define Common Distribution channel  

4.2 Define Common Division

 4.3 Define Sales Document

4.4 Assign Sales Area to Sales Document type      

• Combine Sales organization

• Combine Distribution Channel

• Combine Division

• Assign Document Type Permitted Sales Area

4.5 Define and Assign Pricing Procedure

  

• Set Pricing Procedure

• Set Customer Pricing Procedure

• Set Document Pricing Procedure

• Assign Document Pricing Procedure to Order Type

• Assign Document Pricing Procedure to Billing Type

• Set Pricing Procedure Determination

4.6 Define Item Category     

4.7 Define Item Category Group

4.8 Assign Item Category

4.9 Define Delivery Type

5. Production

5.1 MRP Controllers

• MRP Controllers can be an individual role or group of rules performing the same task. It’s defined based on the role, responsibilities, or area of work instead of individuals.

• The MRP controller is primarily responsible for attending to the requirements of materials.

• MRP Controller is assigned to MRP 1 view of the material master.

• This MRP controller can be used as one of the selection criteria when we run several reports.

Note: MRP Controller is not only used in Production Planning, also used in Procurement Planning in Material Management. 

5.2 Capacity Planner

• The capacity planner or capacity planner group is responsible for evaluating the current work center or resource capacity. If required leveling of capacity can be performed.

• The capacity planners are assigned in the capacity header data of the work center or resource.

• This can be utilized as one of the selection criteria in all capacity evaluation & leveling reports.

5.3 Production Scheduler

• The production scheduler is responsible for ensuring that production execution & operations take place as per the production plan.

• Production schedulers can be assigned in the work scheduling view of the material master.

6. SAP Calendar

• For planning & scheduling to effectively take place, it’s imperative that a calendar exists in the system.

• This calendar is assigned to the plant.

• The SAP Calendar creation function includes three individual steps:

  • Defining Holidays

  • Creating holiday calendar

  • Defining a factory calendar and assigning a holiday calendar to it.

• Public Holiday

• Holiday Calendar

• Factory Calendar

Conclusion

The above steps need to be followed to integrate Production with Material Management, Finance & Controlling, Sales Distribution & Distribution Modules.  

Rajesh Sharma

SAP WM/EWM Functional Consultant

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