Overview

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of consumption-based planning in SAP S/4HANA.

What you'll learn

Explain the material requirements planning (MRP) process.

Use different consumption based MRP procedures.

Describe and execute forecasting.

Introducing Consumption-Based Planning Explain the features of consumption-based planning. Specify the planning procedure for a material.
Describe the steps of the planning run.
Exploring Net Requirements Calculation Define the reorder point for a material. Control net requirements calculation for reorder point planning. Control net requirements calculation for forecast-based planning.
Exploring Lot Size Calculation Control lot size calculation for a material.
Exploring Scheduling Control scheduling.
Determining Procurement Proposal and Source of Supply Control procurement proposal determination.
Control automatic source determination during a planning run.
Performing Planning Start a planning run for selected materials and understand the results.
Schedule MRP runs.
Setting Up MRP Areas Decide on the use of MRP areas.
Performing Forecast Create the conditions for forecasting.
Run a forecast for a material.
Schedule forecast runs.
Calculate safety stock and reorder point using forecast.