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SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling

Reduce order lead time, ensure optimal resource usage, and increase production volumes with efficient production planning.

How Can SAP PP/DS Help Your Business?

SAP PP/DS addresses all the issues related to production planning, delivery, and coordination processes. Let’s find out how your business can benefit from this solution.
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Process planning simplification

With SAP PP/DS tools, you can create various planning scenarios within seconds.
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Order lead time reduction

SAP PP/DS helps you to create feasible production plans with exact times.
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Output growth

Now you can reduce downtime and avoid raw materials shortages that prevent businesses from output growth.
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Storage costs reduction

SAP PP/DS ensures better resource coordination and efficient procurement and production management.
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Resources optimization

Using SAP PP/DS helps you reduce the cost for orders and procurement expenses.
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On-time delivery

SAP PP/DS takes into account any delivery restrictions to avoid delays in order performance.

What Business Issues Does SAP PP/DS Help Overcome?

Planning

Planning

  • Planning actions for each product
  • Interactive planning
  • Automatic planning
  • Short-term, medium-term, and long-term planning
Heuristics

Heuristics

  • Planning for selected objects using a particular algorithm
  • Material planning with finite capacity planning
  • Resolving supply and demand problems
  • Resolving capacity problems
Optimization

Optimization

  • Decreasing manufacturing lead time
  • Minimizing setup costs and time
  • Reducing delays
Pegging relationships

Pegging relationships

  • Create relationships between supply and demand elements based on the planning situation
  • Respect order relationships during scheduling to avoid quantity and date/time issues
Alert Monitor

Alert Monitor

  • Monitor the accuracy of the production plan and schedule
  • Proactively monitor for any supply chain issues
  • Identify exception situations and send notifications to the users

What Manufacturing Models Does SAP PP/DS Cover?

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Make to stock

Plan and schedule your production based on forecasted product demand.

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Make to order

Plan and schedule your production based on your customer demand.

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Engineer to order

Design and produce products for the most demanding clients.

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Project manufacturing

Organize efficient production planning regardless of your production scale.

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Flow manufacturing

Plan the work step-by-step from start to completion, without delays or mistakes.

Interested in the solution?

Industries We Serve

Leveraging our experience with SAP together with diverse industrial expertise, we’ll help you select solutions that will drive meaningful, long-term value for your company.

Why Choose LeverX as Your SAP Implementation Provider?

Proven track record

For over 20 years, we have helped businesses worldwide succeed with SAP. We’ve already completed 950+ projects for over 800 clients, including top names on the Fortune 500 list.

Industry experts

The LeverX team comprises professionals with hands-on knowledge in 30+ industries, including manufacturing, logistics, and oil 
and gas.

SAP partnership

We implement SAP projects end-to-end 
and collaborate with SAP on the development and enhancement of its existing solutions.

Quality and security track record

LeverX operates in compliance with international standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 22301, and ISO 55001, ensuring reliability and quality in every project.

Investment in innovation

We actively integrate advanced technologies, such as Data Science, IoT, AI, Big Data, Blockchain, and others, to help clients efficiently address their business challenges.

Flexibility

Our team is available 24/7, which enables us to quickly deploy projects, maintain process transparency, and adapt each development phase to meet your specific requirements.

Customers' success stories

Automotive
Manufacturing
Fintech
Transportation and Logistics
Retail
Pharmaceuticals

Implementation Roadmap

We follow the SAP Activate methodology, which breaks down the implementation of SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling into six essential stages:
  • Current Processes Evaluation: Assess existing business processes and identify the organization's needs.
  • Defining Technical Requirements: Create a detailed specification of the functional and technical needs of the new system. 

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  • Setting Goals and Objectives: Establish and agree on the goals to be achieved throughout the project.
  • Assembling the Project Team: Appoint team members and define their roles and responsibilities.
  • Project Plan Development: Create a comprehensive plan that outlines project phases, timelines, resources, and key performance indicators.
  • Budget Determination: Estimate and approve the budget.
  • Specifications Preparation: Develop the technical and functional specifications for the development team.

Prepare

  • Ensuring Business Requirements are Met: Check that SAP PP/DS aligns with business requirements and project objectives.
  • Data Validation: Verify the accuracy and compliance of the data.

Explore

  • Data Migration: Transfer data from existing systems to the new one.
  • System Configuration: Set up the solution according to requirements and specifications.
  • Customization: Develop additional features and modules, if the standard solution does not meet all needs.
  • Integrations: Configure SAP PP/DS to work with other IT systems and applications.

Realize

  • Testing: Perform functional, integration, regression, and load testing to ensure that all works correctly.
  • User Training: Organize sessions to help users become familiar with the new system.

Deploy

  • System Readiness Check: Verify that the system is ready for operational use.
  • Launch: Officially transition to active use of SAP PP/DS.
  • Ongoing Support: Continuously monitor solution performance to identify and resolve any issues.

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