Production Planning

Production Planning (PP) includes the business processes used to plan and track the cost of production orders. The company structure reflected in PP starts at the top with Client Number, which represents your head office. The Company Code is next, followed by the units, which are subdivided into Plants and Work Centers (see Figure A.5).

Figure A.5. One way of representing a production organization in SAP R/3. Part of a Routing is shown.

Plain English

Bill of Materials (BOM), Routing Making an analogy to a recipe, the Bill of Materials is the ingredients list, and the Routing is the instructions.

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