SAP PP Master Data

SAP PP Master Data

Master data contains the main detailed objects in SAP Production Planning module. In SAP PP, main objects are Bill of Materials, material master, routing, and work center. Master data contains the key properties of these objects such as production order, material type, planning requirements, goods issue, and goods receipt.

Material master

The material master contains information on all the materials that a company procures or produces, stores, and sells. It is the company’s essential source for retrieving material-specific data. This information is stored in individual material master records. There are different views for user departments i.e. Purchasing, Sales, Quality Management, Accounting, costing, MRP, forecasting etc. Major settings related to production planning are available in MRP and Work scheduling views of material master. Individual department’s users are responsible for material master maintenance activity as per requirements.

Routing

Sequence of operations (i.e. Work Steps) needed to make up product or assembly. A routing is used as a source for creating a production order or a run schedule header by copying. It describes production process. Routing also contained information like place of work to be performed, time required to carry out work, material or component requirement along with equipment need if any.

Bill of Material

A list of components that make up product or assembly along with quantity and unit of measures. BOM is basis for number of activities in many areas like CAD Department, MRP Department, Work Scheduling Department and production order management department, Sales Order activities and in product costing department.

Work Centers

is a place where work (operations) is carried out. A work center is created for a plant and is assigned to operations in routing. Data in work centers is used for scheduling, Costing, Capacity Planning etc. Work centers are capacity collectors for internal and external processing.

Production Resource Tools

Production Resource/Tool (PRT) is a movable operating resource used in production planning to perform an activity repeatedly. Examples of PRTs are Drawings, jigs and fixtures and measuring instruments.

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