Optimize manufacturing production scheduling and constraints management

Built on the same SAP S/4HANA platform, the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing solution for planning and scheduling and the SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing solution for production engineering and operations deliver an enhanced, comprehensive, and simplified user experience that enables enterprise-wide manufacturing collaboration within an integrated SAP S/4HANA environment.

• On-premise deployment
• Enhanced manufacturing collaboration enterprise-wide
• Enriched digital manufacturing capabilities
• Real-time enterprise analytics for better decision-making

Key benefits

Simplify functionality

• Improve and extend digital enterprise collaboration to simplify product planning, change management, and operations
• Decrease days in inventory by integrating scheduling and execution for a consistent view of inventory and product data

Optimize adaptability

• Minimize production disruptions from changed routings, work instructions, and production orders while aligning with shop floor execution
• Reduce manufacturing cycle time by quickly adapting production schedules to current plant conditions

Enhance planning capabilities

• Streamline manufacturing build package creation, planning, and shop floor operations for global production environments
• Reduce revenue loss from stock-outs by improving flexibility through fast and responsive production planning scenarios

Key features

Comprehensive end-to-end planning

• Plan production resources finitely beyond classic MRP functionality
• Consider capacity and material availability constraints in your planning model
• Integrate manufacturing master data, such as routings and bills of materials, to define the basis for production planning data structures 

Integrated, insightful scheduling

• Streamline scheduling processes throughout global production environments
• Use an industry scheduling repository for block, campaign, shelf-life, and model-mix planning
• Perform detailed scheduling with a setup matrix, sequence constraints, minimum and maximum distances, and alternative modes

Streamlined engineering

• Facilitate digital collaboration of manufacturing master data, design structures handovers, process planning, and intelligent change management
• Simplify manufacturing build package creation, management, and delivery throughout global production environments

Enhanced operations management

• Analyze change impact and support change implementation
• Perform system-optimized monitoring of all shop floor operations with automatic issue detection, root cause analysis, and decision support
• Automate monitoring and product data collection for root cause analysis and tracking, tracing, and genealogy