TS422 – SAP S/4HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing Academy Part II — Lesson 1: Advanced Planning Methods, MRP Areas, Forecasting, Consumption, Planning Strategies, Lot Sizing, and Firming

Learning Objectives

• Explain the SAP structures, data, settings, roles, and dependencies governing advanced planning and MRP configuration.
• Perform and validate MRP areas, strategies, lot sizing, and firming using reviewable system evidence.
• Evaluate the condition where production execution diverges from the plan because strategy groups, MRP-area settings, order parameters, control recipes, confirmations, and backflush rules differ and select proportionate corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• Advanced Planning Methods applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• MRP Areas applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Forecasting applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Consumption applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Planning Strategies applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• Lot Sizing applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.
• and Firming applied to the course scenario, expected SAP behavior, dependencies, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces a manufacturing solution team configuring varied production models across discrete, process, repetitive, and pull-based environments. The walkthrough connects navigation, configuration or process logic, system messages, and evidence captured in the TS422 advanced manufacturing configuration, integration, and validation dossier. It also tests the exception where production execution diverges from the plan because strategy groups, MRP-area settings, order parameters, control recipes, confirmations, and backflush rules differ.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled SAP exercise covering Advanced Planning Methods, MRP Areas, Forecasting, Consumption, Planning Strategies, Lot Sizing, and Firming and preserve the verified result in the TS422 advanced manufacturing configuration, integration, and validation dossier.

1. Confirm scope, prerequisites, master data, roles, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
2. Execute the workflow while recording settings, transactions, outputs, and system messages.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception.
4. Document corrections, evidence, ownership, retest criteria, and handover actions.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which object, rule, setting, or process step most strongly influences advanced planning and MRP configuration.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain business, technical, control, and support trade-offs.
• Determine how the TS422 advanced manufacturing configuration, integration, and validation dossier should be approved, retained, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected SAP behavior first differs from the observed result. Check master data, configuration sequence, authorization, integration, status, and transaction evidence separately. Treat “production execution diverges from the plan because strategy groups, MRP-area settings, order parameters, control recipes, confirmations, and backflush rules differ” as a hypothesis until system settings, logs, documents, and outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required SAP structures, master data, roles, settings, and dependencies are present.
• The TS422 advanced manufacturing configuration, integration, and validation dossier connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, the boundary condition, integration behavior, and exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Advanced Planning Methods, MRP Areas, Forecasting, Consumption, Planning Strategies, Lot Sizing, and Firming, explain the resulting SAP behavior, and defend the outcome through the TS422 advanced manufacturing configuration, integration, and validation dossier.