SAP PP - production scheduler

Question

hi.. i am a fresher in sap pp. i want to know what is production scheduler and production scheduling profile in work scheduling view of material master?

Answer 1

Hi Tuhin,
Production sheduler is The Person who is responsible To  do all Scheduling Activities. with a aim to Maximum Utilisation of the Resources.
  Production Scheduling Profile: i am giving some useful notes about this but you have to do some excercise to get clear understanding of this like changing options and creating NEw production orders. Be clear with Scheduling Profile As it have very good impact on production order processing.
The following controls can be set:
a) On creation
Automatic Order release on creation of the order (when the order status is CRTD)
Automatic Links of header Material related documents and BOM related documents items to the order (when the order status is CRTD)
b) On Release
Automatic Printing of Order papers on release of order (when the order status is REL) - If you are planning to use order related shop floor papers configured in the order list or order print settings in SAP, then you can use this functionality for automatic printing of papers at order release.
Automatic Scheduling of Order on order release (when the order status is REL) - This is recommended to be set. But donot use this if the order planning and scheduling is happening from an external system like APO or i2 etc.
Automatic Links of header Material related documents and BOM related documents items to the order (when the order status is REL)
c) Automatic Goods Receipt
If you are planning to receive certain materials automatically in to the finished goods storage location upon confirmation of the final operation in the order, then you can use this indicator rather than using the control keys in the order operation. Setting automatic goods receipt at this level reduces the effort of master data creation.
d) Capacity Planning
If you are planning to carry out Capacity Availability checks in the order for the header materials (which would carry the production scheduler profile), then you need to select the "Confirm Capacity indicator" and the "finite scheduling indictor" and choose a leveling profile.
The Capacity overall leveling profile is used by the system to carry out capacity availability checks in an order when the order is created or release as per the settings in the order availability controls at creation/release. SAP has provided an option to have the Capacity overall leveling profile maintained at material level rather than setting the profiles at order levels in the order availability controls. The Capacity Overall Leveling profiles once assigned here decides the way in which the capacity leveling has to be done for the materials (assigned with this production scheduling profile).
As far as the indicators are concerned, they only come in to play during mass conversion of planned orders in to orders or mass release of orders when the user does not decide the creation or release and the system is set to create or release anyways inspite. The below indicators help the system to make decisions on capacity availability checks and helps it proceed in creating or releasing the order.
By choosing the "finite scheduling indicator" you are forcing the system to consider all the operation work center of the header material relavent for finite scheduling during capacity availability checks, and in cases where there is no capacity availability for loading operations on work centers, the system loads operations on dates where there is sufficient capacity (automatically rescheduling to dates where their is availability).
And by choosing the "confirm capacity indicator" for capacity availability checks, you are indirectly telling the system to incorporate loads in work center loading reports for where there is sufficient capacity available, in other words the operations for which there is no sufficinet capacity available will not be loaded on work centers in the work center loading report. You should choose this indicator wisely.
Recommendation - Aviod using the "Confirm capacity indicator".
e) Confirmations
No Flor/Update of Expected Yield Surplus/Deficit - On Final Operation or order confirmation, if the confirmed quantity is less than (deficit) or more than (surplus) the operation or order quantity (confirmed scrap quantities) are not taken in to account , then the system displays the Yield Variances in the order header.
If you set this indicator the variances (if any) donot flow in to the order and MRP. This is not recommended to be used under standard circumstances since Material requirement planning would not consider the shortages and spoil the concept of net requirement planning or netting.
Adjust Operation/Component Quantities to Actual Value - In simple terms the system would readjust the planned operation qauntities of the order if you confirm the order with a smaller/larger yield than that planned (including the confirmed scrap quantities). Along with readjusting the planned operation quantities, the components quantities of the components assigned to the operation also changes proportionately.
This is applicable for the operation that has a yield variance and all the operations below the operation that has a change.
The system carries out the following in case there is a difference in the confirmation of planned quantities and the actual quantities (during order or operation confirmations)
a) Automatically readjusts the operation quantities for all operations below the concerned operation, including the concerned operation.
b) Automatically readjust the component quantities for all the components assigned to the operations below the concerned operation, including the concerned operation.
c) Readjusts the planned costs for all the operations and the order, overall. Though this recosting has to be done manually and it is not triggered automatically by the system.
d) Automatically reschedules the operations giving new dates and new capacity requirements.
e) Automatically makes changes in the Purchase requisitions created in the order for non-stock items or for the purchase requisition created for externally operation processing.
f) Automatically readjust the Transport requests created for WM.
For example -
Operation 0010 - Planned Qty = 100
Operation 0015 - Planned Qty = 100
Operation 0020 - Planned Qty = 100 - Component 10 - Qty = 100
Operation 0030 - Planned Qty = 100 - Component 20 - Qty = 100, Component 0030 - Qty = 50
Operation 0040 - Planned Qty = 100 - Component 40 - Qty = 100
Operation 0050 - Planned Qty = 100
If the confirmed qty in Operation 0015 is 102, then all the below operations and the component quantities are changed proportionately as shown below:
Operation 0010 - Planned Qty = 100
Operation 0015 - Planned Qty = 102
Operation 0020 - Planned Qty = 102 - Component 10 - Qty = 102
Operation 0030 - Planned Qty = 102 - Component 20 - Qty = 102, Component 0030 - Qty = 54
Operation 0040 - Planned Qty = 102 - Component 40 - Qty = 102
Operation 0050 - Planned Qty = 102
f) Batch Creation at Order level
If you want to have batch created at order level for certain header materials, then you can create a production scheduling profile and assign this profile to them.
You can configure whether you want Order level header material batch creation at order creation or release.
Not only, can you configure order header material batch creation, but you can also configure whether you want the batch created and classified in the order foreground or in the background (optional or mandatory).
g) WM related Transfer Requirements
Here you can specify whether you want to automatically create WM related transfer requirements or transfer orders for the order components (whose storage location is maintained, Storage location is relevant to WM, WM views are maintained for the component) at order release.
h) Order Type
In the production scheduling profile you can default order types which would be used while converting a planned order in to order or which can be used for manual creation of production order.
Regards,
Mahesh.