SAP Eppds
SAP Eppds
SAP Eppds
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As our team further enhances and expands our Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing SAP S/4HANA
product portfolio in support of Intelligent Enterprise, I am excited to announce the October release of the SAP
S/4HANA 2021 version of SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for planning and scheduling.
SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for planning and scheduling allows the creation of feasible production plans
and schedules that optimize your scarce resources and labor to stabilize production and help you make reliable
commitments to your internal and external customers. This SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management core
extension, available both on premise and as private cloud edition, in stack and extra stack (side by side),
ensures that planning and execution are syncrhonized in real time so that everyone in the company can access
up-to-date planning information. With this latest release, SAP reinforces the intelligent enterprise strategy,
adds customer value, and strengthens our position in the supply chain-/ manufacturing planning space.
We are happy to deliver on our promise we made with the last years roadmap update. To recap what has
happened recently – a Customer Engagement Initiative was launched early last year where customers from
different manufacturing industries signed up and provided direct feedback for key improvement areas. This
input helped shape and influence the overall development roadmap for ePPDS in SAP S/4HANA and is now
updated again with new planned innovations for 2024.
Major innovations in business process coverage, flexible integration and UI-modernization have been
announced and are started to be shipped now to our customers such as:
Tank Planning
A first step of our multi-year roadmap to improve tank planning capabilities has been made with the ability to
visualize tank fill levels now better for interactive planning. It comes with new charts and detailed lists in the
PPDS Gantt Chart and product planning table. This foundation provides a starting point for major tank
planning improvements to cover more complex material flow scenarios e.g., splitting from and into tanks or
draining and filling with external demands and supplies.
Flexible Integration
Providing more flexible integration capabilities is a key enabler of deploying PPDS more effectively and
efficiently within SAP S/4HANA and across the full E2E process including SAP IBP with Synchronized
Planning. Production Planning Integration is a core piece of synchronized planning supporting the process and
data integration between SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA ePPDS (available with SAP S/4HANA 2020). A new
switch for controlling the advanced planning behavior in SAP S/4HANA allows now the flexible usage of
PPDS in subnetworks e.g., only at production plant or a plant internal upstream component manufacturing area
or the combination of PP for MRP and ePPDS for detailed scheduling. This new switch enables also further
use cases like using MRP Live for Production Planning and using PPDS just for the sake of scheduling.
Synchronized Planning – Production Planning Integration
Synchronized Planning is a strategic topic in SAP Digital Supply Chain and many of our key customers.
Supply chain planning is often siloed and transactional and does not span several departments and
organizational alignments. With synchronized planning, we see the convergence of the different supply chain
planning capabilities bringing together supply planning, distribution planning and production planning in one
place, enabling a holistic planner’s workspace.
We are continuously combining SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA ePPDS planning capabilities by providing an
operational plan in SAP IBP with fine tuning the scheduling in ePPDS. The detailed scheduling results are
visible in SAP IBP – thus transparency is guaranteed.
With the 2108 release of SAP IBP combined with 2021 release of SAP S/4HANA, we can delegate short term
production planning from SAP IBP to SAP S/4HANA ePPDS and have a controlled handover process of short-
term production planning responsibility from SAP IBP to ePPDS.
Synchronized Planning as a concept will also be enabled for PPDS in the Digital Supply Chain Edition for
S/4HANA (DSC-Edition) which is another highlight of the development roadmap for PPDS and offers now
the possibility to connect to multiple ERP systems.
Additional information on SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing planning and scheduling can be found here:
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