Preface

15

How This Book Is Organized

15

Acknowledgments

17

Summary

18

Introduction: The Path to Certification

19

Who This Book Is For

20

Certifications the Book Is Designed For

21

Format of the Certification Exam

21

C_TS422_2020 Certification

23

Scope of the Certification Exams

24

SAP Training and Adoption Courses

25

Standard Certification C_TS422_2020

25

Ways to Learn

27

Tips for Taking the Certification Exam

30

Some General Considerations

30

The Question Types

30

Tips and Tricks

32

Additional Learning Resources

33

Summary

35

1 Introduction to Supply Chain Planning

37

1.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

38

1.2 Digital Transformation and the Intelligent Enterprise

39

1.3 SAP S/4HANA

41

1.3.1 Deployment Options

42

1.3.2 Production Planning in SAP S/4HANA

43

1.4 SAP User Experience

44

1.4.1 SAP Fiori Design Principles

45

1.4.2 SAP Fiori Launchpad

45

1.4.3 SAP Fiori Application Types

47

1.5 SAP Activate Framework

49

1.6 Supply Chain Planning

52

1.7 Important Terminology

57

1.8 Practice Questions

58

1.9 Practice Answers and Explanations

60

1.10 Test Takeaway

61

1.11 Summary

62

2 Master Data for Production

63

2.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

64

2.2 Organizational Structure

65

2.3 Material Master

66

2.3.1 Material Numbering

67

2.3.2 Material Type

68

2.3.3 Creating the Material Master

69

2.3.4 Additional Data in the Material Master

74

2.3.5 Classification View of the Material Master

76

2.3.6 Managing the Material Master

78

2.4 Bill of Materials

82

2.4.1 Overview

82

2.4.2 Header Details

85

2.4.3 Item Details

87

2.4.4 Additional Topics Related to BOM

90

2.5 Work Centers

92

2.5.1 Creating Work Centers

93

2.5.2 Basic Data

93

2.5.3 Default Values

95

2.5.4 Capacities

96

2.5.5 Scheduling

97

2.5.6 Costing Data

98

2.6 Routings/Task Lists

100

2.6.1 Creating a Routing

100

2.6.2 Header Data

101

2.6.3 Operation Data

103

2.6.4 Subordinate Routing Objects

108

2.7 Production Versions

110

2.8 Engineering Change Management

112

2.9 Important Terminology

113

2.10 Practice Questions

114

2.11 Practice Answers and Explanations

119

2.12 Test Takeaway

123

2.13 Summary

123

3 Demand Management

125

3.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

126

3.2 Consumption Process and Logic

127

3.3 Planning Strategy

128

3.4 Strategies for Make-to-Stock Production

130

3.4.1 Net Requirements Planning (Planning Strategy 10)

130

3.4.2 Gross Requirements Planning (Planning Strategy 11)

131

3.4.3 Planning with Final Assembly (Planning Strategy 40)

132

3.4.4 Production by Lot Size (Planning Strategy 30)

133

3.5 Strategies for Make-to-Order Production

134

3.5.1 Make-to-Order Production (Planning Strategy 20)

134

3.5.2 Planning without Final Assembly (Planning Strategy 50)

135

3.5.3 Planning with Planning Material (Planning Strategy 60)

135

3.6 Planning for Components

137

3.7 Assemble-to-Order Production

139

3.8 Creation of Demand Plan

140

3.9 Important Terminology

141

3.10 Practice Questions

143

3.11 Practice Answers and Explanations

145

3.12 Test Takeaway

147

3.13 Summary

147

4 Material Requirements Planning

149

4.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

150

4.2 Material Requirements Planning Procedures

151

4.3 Planning Process

154

4.3.1 Checking Planning File Entries

154

4.3.2 Net Requirements Planning

156

4.3.3 Procurement Quantity Calculation

157

4.3.4 Scheduling

159

4.3.5 Determining the Procurement Proposal

160

4.3.6 Determination of Source of Supply

162

4.3.7 BOM Explosion and Determining Dependent Requirements

163

4.3.8 Exception Messages Creation

163

4.4 Master Data for Material Requirements Planning

164

4.5 Material Requirements Planning Customization

168

4.5.1 Maintain Plant Parameters

168

4.5.2 Maintain Environment

169

4.5.3 Maintain Master Data

171

4.5.4 Maintain Planned Orders

173

4.5.5 Maintain Planning Run

173

4.6 Carrying out Planning Run (Classic MRP)

178

4.7 Carrying out Planning Run Using MRP Live

183

4.8 Evaluating MRP Results

186

4.8.1 Stock/Requirements List

186

4.8.2 SAP Fiori Apps for Evaluation of MRP

188

4.9 Important Terminology

190

4.10 Practice Questions

192

4.11 Practice Answers and Explanations

194

4.12 Test Takeaway

195

4.13 Summary

195

5 Production Orders

197

5.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

198

5.2 Process Overview

199

5.3 Master Data

205

5.4 Production Order Configuration

207

5.4.1 Production Order Type

207

5.4.2 Order-Type-Dependent Parameters

208

5.4.3 Scheduling Parameters for Production Orders

212

5.4.4 Configuring the Availability Checks

213

5.4.5 Production Scheduling Profile

215

5.5 Production Order Preparation

217

5.5.1 Production Order Creation

217

5.5.2 Production Order Scheduling

220

5.5.3 Running Availability Checks

222

5.6 Production Order Execution

224

5.6.1 Release of Production Orders

225

5.6.2 Printing Shop Floor Papers/Lists

227

5.6.3 Component Withdrawal for Production Orders

228

5.6.4 Confirmation

231

5.6.5 Goods Receipt

237

5.7 Settlement and Order Completion

239

5.7.1 Settlement

240

5.7.2 Production Order Completion

241

5.7.3 Archiving and Deletion of Production Orders

242

5.8 Additional Topics in Production Orders

242

5.8.1 Reprocessing Failed Goods Movements

243

5.8.2 Reporting Functions

243

5.9 Important Terminology

246

5.10 Practice Questions

247

5.11 Practice Answers and Explanations

252

5.12 Test Takeaway

255

5.13 Summary

255

6 Lean Manufacturing

257

6.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

258

6.2 Repetitive Manufacturing Overview

259

6.2.1 Characteristics

259

6.2.2 Master Data

260

6.2.3 Planning with the Planning Table

265

6.2.4 Material Staging

267

6.2.5 Confirmation

268

6.2.6 Cost Object Controlling

272

6.3 Configuring Repetitive Manufacturing

273

6.4 Kanban

282

6.4.1 Overview

282

6.4.2 Master Data

283

6.4.3 Replenishment Strategies

286

6.4.4 Kanban Control

287

6.4.5 Error Processing

288

6.5 Important Terminology

289

6.6 Practice Questions

291

6.7 Practice Answers and Explanations

294

6.8 Test Takeaway

296

6.9 Summary

296

7 Process Orders

297

7.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

298

7.2 Process Order Overview

299

7.3 Master Data for Process Orders

300

7.3.1 Material Master

301

7.3.2 Bill of Materials

302

7.3.3 Resource

302

7.3.4 Production Version

304

7.3.5 Master Recipe

304

7.4 Process Order Configuration

310

7.5 Process Order Processing

317

7.5.1 Process Planning

318

7.5.2 Order Execution

321

7.5.3 Order Closing

336

7.6 Goods Manufacturing Practices

338

7.7 Additional and Advanced Functions

340

7.8 Important Terminology

342

7.9 Practice Questions

343

7.10 Practice Question Answers and Explanations

345

7.11 Test Takeaway

347

7.12 Summary

347

8 Capacity Planning

349

8.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

350

8.2 Capacity Process Overview

351

8.3 Master Data and Capacity Planning Settings

353

8.4 Capacity Evaluation

356

8.4.1 Work Center Load (Standard Overview)

357

8.4.2 Manage Work Center Capacity App

359

8.5 Capacity Leveling

360

8.5.1 Capacity Leveling Profiles

361

8.5.2 Capacity Leveling with the Tabular Planning Table

362

8.5.3 Capacity Leveling with the Graphical Planning Table

364

8.5.4 SAP Fiori Apps for Capacity Leveling

365

8.6 Capacity Availability Check

369

8.7 Important Terminology

372

8.8 Practice Questions

373

8.9 Practice Answers and Explanations

375

8.10 Test Takeaway

376

8.11 Summary

377

9 Advanced Planning

379

9.1 Objectives of This Portion of the Test

381

9.2 Overview of Advanced Planning and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP-DS)

381

9.3 Master Data for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling

382

9.3.1 Core Interface

383

9.3.2 Locations (Plant, Customer, Vendor)

386

9.3.3 Product (Material) Master

387

9.3.4 Resources (Work Centers)

389

9.3.5 Source of Supply

392

9.4 Configuration

397

9.4.1 Activate Advanced Planning and Scheduling in SAP S/4HANA

397

9.4.2 Creating the System Landscape

397

9.4.3 Data Transfer Settings

400

9.4.4 Define Material Requirements Planning Areas for Subcontractors

401

9.4.5 Global Settings

402

9.4.6 Specify Person Responsible (Planner)

404

9.4.7 Model Version Management

405

9.5 Advanced Planning with Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling

406

9.5.1 MRP Live

407

9.5.2 Production Planning Run in Embedded Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling

409

9.5.3 Interactive Production Planning

413

9.6 Detailed Scheduling with Embedded Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling

416

9.6.1 Prerequisites for Detailed Scheduling

416

9.6.2 Scheduling with the Detailed Scheduling Planning Board

420

9.6.3 Conversion and Transfer of Orders to Production Execution

427

9.6.4 Simulation

428

9.7 Alert Monitor

429

9.8 Predictive Material and Resource Planning

433

9.9 Demand-Driven Replenishment

437

9.10 Important Terminology

447

9.11 Practice Questions

449

9.12 Practice Answers and Explanations

453

9.13 Test Takeaway

455

9.14 Summary

456