TS421 – SAP S/4HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing Academy Part I

TS421 – SAP S/4HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing Academy Part I develops practical capability in SAP S/4HANA production-planning foundations covering master data, demand management, material requirements planning, capacity planning, production orders, process orders, repetitive manufacturing, and embedded analytics.

Learners progress through Manufacturing Master Data, Materials, Bills of Material, Work Centers, Routings, Production Versions, and Resources; Demand Management, Planned Independent Requirements, Strategies, MRP Live, Planning Runs, and Evaluations; Capacity Planning, Planned Orders, Production Orders, Scheduling, Availability, Release, and Shop-Floor Control; Confirmations, Goods Movements, Process Orders, Repetitive Manufacturing, Analytics, and Planning Improvement, connecting SAP behavior with business decisions, controls, and reviewable evidence.

The learning journey follows a manufacturing team establishing an integrated planning and execution model from demand through procurement proposals, order release, confirmation, and inventory updates and produces a practical TS421 planning, MRP, capacity, and production-execution academy workbook for implementation and operational use.

What You Will Learn

• Map manufacturing master-data integration across SAP roles, process steps, controls, and evidence.
• Configure BOM, routing, work-center, and version controls with reliable master data and integration dependencies.
• Execute demand management and MRP execution and interpret resulting documents, messages, and analytical evidence.
• Diagnose planning strategies, MRP Live, and evaluations through targeted checks, traces, logs, and transaction evidence.
• Validate capacity and production-order planning against business rules, authorization boundaries, and acceptance criteria.
• Compare scheduling, availability, release, and control alternatives and explain operational, technical, and governance trade-offs.
• Document manufacturing execution and analytics using reproducible settings, test results, ownership, and handover notes.
• Improve confirmations, process, repetitive, and improvement controls through monitoring, exception handling, measurable controls, and review cycles.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Training combines course-specific demonstrations, hands-on SAP exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, troubleshooting practice, and a final improvement plan for TS421 – SAP S/4HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing Academy Part I.