Step up your SAP PP game! Learn how to configure SAP ERP Production Planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing and master BOM status definitions, process message characteristics, and master data. Dive into SAP PP workflows and use Process Management, release production orders, and create planning tables. Covering everything from S&OP and MRP to SAP Demand Management and the Early Warning System, this book will help you get your production process to maximum efficiency! Configuration Get step-by-step instructions for configuring SAP PP, from master data shared by all manufacturing types to specific settings and control keys for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing. Workflow Tools Learn to use sales and operations planning, material requirements planning, SAP Demand Management, and long-term planning throughout your production workflow. Reporting and Optimization Get more out of your production system with capacity requirements planning, co-products, by-products, and more. Then evaluate and monitor your system using built-in reports and the Early Warning System. Highlights: Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing Configuration XSteps Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Material requirements planning (MRP) SAP Demand Management Long-term planning (LTP) Special procurement types Capacity requirements planning (CRP) Digital signatures Early Warning System (EWS)