Step up your SAP PP game. Learn how to configure SAP ERP Production Planning for discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing and master BOM status definitions, process message characteristics, and master data. Dive into SAP PP workflows and use Process Management, release production orders, and create planning tables. Covering everything from S&OP and MRP to SAP. Demand Management and the Early Warning System, this book will help you get your production process to maximum efficiency. Highlights include: Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing. Configuration. XSteps. Sales and operations planning (S&OP). Material requirements planning (MRP). SAP Demand Management. Long-term planning (LTP). Special procurement types. Capacity requirements planning (CRP). Digital signatures. Early Warning System (EWS).