SAP PPDS: Making production planning more efficient
With SAP PPDS, you can make your production processes more efficient, flexible and future-proof. Implement SAP PPDS with us - and take the first step towards digital excellence in production!
How You Benefit from SAP PPDS
- Increased Flexibility and Efficiency: Through dynamic, real-time production planning that quickly responds to supply shortages or machine failures.
- Cost Savings and Higher Productivity: By reducing idle times and optimizing the use of machines, personnel, and materials.
- Consistent Data Base and Easier Coordination: Through seamless integration with other SAP modules like SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA.
SAP PPDS is Relevant for You if...
- You want to take your production planning and control to the next level.
- You aim to optimize your planning processes and make them more flexible.
- You need precise scheduling and resource management for your complex production workflows.
- You want to specifically address the requirements of production planning when implementing SAP.
- You aim to improve delivery reliability and reduce lead times.
- You are seeking seamless integration of production planning into your SAP system landscape.
Are you aware of these challenges?
Ensuring efficient production planning is tedious - especially with short delivery times, fluctuating demand and in the context of complex production scenarios.
Underutilized machines, idle times or bottlenecks in personnel and materials lead to high costs and productivity losses. Optimally managing the utilization of all resources? Not always easy!
Delays in production and unreliable delivery dates can jeopardize customer relationships. What should you do if delivery reliability repeatedly suffers due to disruptions?
If you want to adapt processes, you need to be aware of the effects. Many companies do not have the opportunity to test planning scenarios and analyze the effects before they are implemented.
This is SAP PPDS
With SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (SAP PPDS), companies can make their production processes more efficient, flexible, and customer-oriented, thereby enhancing their long-term competitiveness.
The previous version, SAP APO, has been gradually replaced by SAP S/4HANA. Instead, SAP PPDS has been embedded directly into the SAP core. This allows SAP S/4HANA users to implement PPDS into their processes and take full advantage of the new architectural model.
Some of these benefits include:
- Real-time planning with no latency through direct integration with ERP data
- Reduced maintenance efforts due to a simplified system landscape
- Faster performance through the use of the HANA database (e.g., for heuristics, optimization, sequencing)
As the only fully integrated solution for detailed planning in SAP, SAP PPDS ensures long-term future-proofing. Moreover, the solution is continuously being developed, for example:
- Through the introduction of additional Fiori apps to improve user experience
- Through the optimization of planning processes, especially in the process industry.
How SAP PPDS Specifically Benefits You
A mechanical engineering company uses SAP PPDS to:
- Plan the production steps for a specific customer order. SAP PPDS takes into account machine capacities, material availability, and delivery deadlines, ensuring the order is completed on time and efficiently.
An automotive manufacturer uses SAP PPDS to:
- Produce vehicles with numerous configuration options.
- Avoid bottlenecks.
A company from the chemical industry uses SAP PPDS to:
- Plan the sequence of various batches. SAP PPDS accounts for cleaning and setup times between production runs.
- Optimize plant utilization.
A food manufacturer uses SAP PPDS to:
- Adapt production to fluctuating demand. SAP PPDS simulates different scenarios to determine the optimal production quantity while minimizing inventory levels.
How to successfully start with GAMBIT
If you're not yet familiar with SAP PPDS or are already looking for a partner to implement your project, GAMBIT is the right choice for you.
We support you in every aspect related to SAP PPDS – from a detailed feasibility study to the implementation of the solution, all the way through to application management.
We have the necessary experience, expertise, and proven, structured approaches for implementations of this kind.
These customers already trust us
What GAMBIT has to offer
Many years of experience in various sectors and industries? We bring this to the table and adapt SAP PPDS precisely to the individual requirements and processes in your company.
At GAMBIT, we not only look at technology, but also at business processes, corporate goals and the people in the company. This is how we create a seamless integration of SAP PPDS into the process landscape.
We talk to employees in production and planning as well as executives and top management - and always at eye level. This makes your IT project a real success factor for your company.
We prepare your employees for the new processes with customized training and workshops and ensure smooth acceptance within the company.
5 Benefits with GAMBIT
- Everything from a single source – from feasibility study and implementation to licenses and support.
- As a strategy, technology, and process consulting firm, we bring IT and business together so you can benefit the most.
- Our experts understand the challenges, issues, and processes in production and detailed planning, and they excel at integrating these into an ERP system.
- We deliver tailored solutions for individual requirements – from standard processes to custom extensions.
- Finally, understanding what it's all about – we present complex planning processes in a clear and comprehensible way for all stakeholders.
Get in touch
Send us a message or give us a call and tell us about your wishes and requirements.
Alternatively, you can directly select an appointment in our calendar and schedule a 30-minute introductory meeting with us via MS Teams.
Meinolf Schäfer, Senior Director Sales & Marketing
Do you need more information about SAP PPDS? I am here for you!+49 2241 8845-623