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Understanding Process Steps and Business Requirements for Production Capacity Planning and Evaluation (31L)

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Define process steps for production capacity planning and evaluation (31L)
Identify business roles for production capacity planning and evaluation (31L)

Process Steps for Production Capacity Planning and Evaluation (31L)

Applicable Process Steps

Capacity Planning and Evaluation for Discrete Manufacturing

Process Step	Description
Create Planned Independent Requirements	This process step shows you how to use planned independent requirements to perform demand management functions. A planned independent requirement contains one planned quantity and one date, or a number of planned independent requirements schedule lines, such as one planned quantity split over time according to dates. Instead of creating a single requirement, sometimes a requirements plan that includes one or more planned independent requirements can be maintained for mass processing. In this case, the requirements are grouped and maintained under a requirement plan number.
Material Requirements Planning	This process step shows you how to tailor available capacities and receipts on time to suit requirement quantities. You can use MRP or consumption-based planning for this purpose.
Check Capacity Situation	During MRP, planned orders are created and scheduled to meet the material requirements. This process step shows you how to check the capacities for overload on bottleneck resources.
Apply Changes to Available Capacity	For the bottleneck resources, you may need to optimize capacity utilization by changing available capacity (such as adding or changing shifts).
Conversion to Production Orders	This process step shows you how to internally produce the planned orders for goods after capacity bottleneck is resolved.
Production Order Processing for Subassembly	Execute the following activities in the Make-to-Stock Production - Discrete Manufacturing (BJ5) scope item: Material Staging for Subassembly Release Production Order for Subassembly Confirm Production Operations for Subassembly Post Goods Receipt for Subassembly Production Order
Production Order Processing for Final Assembly	Execute the following activities in the Make-to-Stock Production - Discrete Manufacturing (BJ5) scope item: Material Staging for Final Assembly Release Production Order for Final Assembly Pick Components for Final Assembly Confirm Production Operations for Final Assembly Post Goods Receipt for Final Assembly Production Order

Capacity Planning and Evaluation for Process Manufacturing

Process Step	Description
Create Planned Independent Requirements	This process step shows you how to use planned independent requirements to perform demand management functions. A planned independent requirement contains one planned quantity and one date, or a number of planned independent requirements schedule lines, such as one planned quantity split over time according to dates. Instead of creating a single requirement, sometimes a requirements plan that includes one or more planned independent requirements can be maintained for mass processing. In this case, the requirements are grouped and maintained under a requirement plan number.
Material Requirements Planning	This process step shows you how to tailor available capacities and receipts on time to suit requirement quantities. You can use MRP or consumption-based planning for this purpose.
Check Capacity Situation	During MRP, planned orders are created and scheduled to meet the material requirements. This process step shows you how to check the capacities for overload on bottleneck resources.
Apply Changes to Available Capacity	For the bottleneck resources, you may need to optimize capacity utilization by changing available capacity (such as adding or changing shifts).
Conversion to Process Orders	This process step shows you how to internally produce the planned orders for goods after capacity bottleneck is resolved.
Process Order Processing	Execute the following activities in the Make-to-Stock Production - Process Manufacturing based on Process Order (BJ8) scope item: Goods Issue of Batch-Managed Components Monitor Order Progress Confirm Production incl. Component Backflush Post Goods Receipt for Process Order

Business Roles for Production Capacity Planning and Evaluation (31L)

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Access to business applications is controlled by role-based authorization management. You assign Business Roles to Business Users, and the roles provide access to business tasks. Business Users are defined as employees, contractors, or other individuals that need access to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system.

How to find Business Roles for a scope item

Navigate to https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/BP_CLD_ENTPR.
Select your country localization from the Version drop-down list.
In the Solution Scope section, expand the relevant scope item group.
Select a scope item.
Download the test script.
Navigate to the Roles section of the test script.

A Business Role is assigned to a Business User to grant permission to access applications in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.

One or more Business Catalogs have been assigned to a Business Role. Business Catalogs include access to one or more applications, dashboards, or displays of data.

Administrators can control visibility to the data granted through the catalog by applying General Restrictions to Business Catalogs. By maintaining access restrictions, you can define the subset of all existing business objects a user can view (read) or edit (write) when working with a particular business role.

The Business Catalog defines which access categories are available (Value Help, Read, Write), and for which fields restriction values can be maintained. The fields vary per catalog, as they are based on the fields within the apps in the catalog. The Business Role aggregates restrictions for all Business Catalogs.

Administrators define a restriction based on a supported field (e.g. company code, country, controlling area, etc.). Supported restriction fields vary per Business Catalog, as they are based on the fields within the apps in the catalog. You can restrict data access for the Value Help, Read, and Write separately. Read access always includes Value Help access, and Write access always includes Read access.

How to identify the Business Catalog(s) mapped to a Business Role and the Fiori application(s) mapped to a Business Catalog:

Log into the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system.
Select the Manage Business Roles application from the Launchpad.
Select a Business Role.
Select the Assigned Business Catalogs tab to view the standard Business Catalogs assigned to the standard Business Role.
Select a Business Catalog.
Select the Catalog Description tab to view the Functional Description, Authorization Criteria, and Associated Catalogs information.
Select the Applications tab to view the Fiori apps mapped to the Business Catalog.

Note

Please do not edit SAP Standard Business Roles directly. To customize Business Roles, always make a copy of the SAP Standard Business Role or use the option Create From Template in the Maintain Business Roles application.

To apply General Restrictions, an Administrator should first make a copy of the SAP Standard Business Role, or create a new role based on the SAP Standard Business Role Template. For example, if you need to restrict access in the Accounts Payable Accountant Business Role for some users to only Company Code 1710 (United States), and for some users to only Company Code 1010 (Germany), you will create two new Business Roles based on the SAP Standard Accounts Payable Accountant role. You should name the roles accordingly (for example, Accounts Payable Accountant_1710). In the first business role, you will edit the role and maintain the restriction value(s) for the entire Business Role (that is, define the Company Code field = 1710). Then, you may edit the individual business catalogs within the role and define the access category (that is, Value Help, Read, Write) as Restricted. When you create a new Business Role, the Read access is set to Unrestricted and Write access is set to No Access by default. When an access category is Restricted, you must select a specific field value (for example, Company Code = 1710) or grant unrestricted access. If you leave fields empty within a business catalog, a user will be assigned No Access to the field in the business catalog's granted apps.

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