Administering SAP R/3

The production and planning module

Jonathan Blain, Bernard Dodd

476 pages, parution le 10/12/1999

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Résumé

Administering SAP R/3: The Production and Planning Module is the ideal manual for installing or administering the Production and Planning module--or for those managing a site utilizing the Production and Planning module. The book provides specific examples of how to develop, implement and utilize the Production and Planning module with an existing SAP R/3 system. It focuses on the business and technical decisions that need to be made before, during and after administration of the PP module. This book is filled with practical examples of how to structure a production and planning department and contains processes to utilize the production and planning module to save time and money.

The most complete manual for administering and integrating SAP's production and planning module
Understand the methodology and technical implementation strategies associated with the production and planning module

Table of contents

I: Exploring R3 PP: 1: Using PP Within an R/3 Environment; 2: Introducing the Concepts and Components of PP
II: Prepating the System: 3: Setting Up Bills of Material; 4: Setting Up Work Centers; 5: Routing the Steps of the Production Processes; 6: Assigning Production Resources and Tools
III: Controlling the Production Facilities: 7: Scheduling Routings; 8: Planning and Controlling Shop Floor Production Orders; 9: Administering a Production line; 10: Implementing PP in Repetitive Manufacturing; 11: Assembly Processing in Make-to-Order Production; 12: Managing Materials
IV: Pianning and Integrating: 13: Master Planning; 14: Managing Resources in the Process Industries; 15: Manufacturing with Master Recipes; 16: Optimizing the Continuous Production Processes; 17: Continuous Manufacturing with Process Orders; 18: Controlling Self-Regulating Production by KANBANs; 19: Controlling Manufacture with Process Instructions; 20: Relating Production to the Environment; Appendix Glossary; Index

L'auteur - Jonathan Blain

Jonathan Blain

is the founder of the ASAP group of companies. He has been working in the SAP market since 1991. He has a strong business background, having spent 10 years in the oil industry working in a variety of different roles in the downstream sector for the Mobil Corporation before becoming a Management Consultant. He has specialist knowledge of large-scale SAP implementations, project management, human issues, planning, communications, security, training, documentation, and SAP recruitment. He has benefited from professional business training with the Henley Management College and other institutions.

As a management consultant, he has specialized in matching corporate business strategies to IT strategies. He has a special interest in business engineering and the effective management of change when implementing large-scale IT systems.