PPC: Scalable, Customizable, Enterprise-Ready
Production planning is a central pillar of effective supply chain management — but its true value is only realized when it operates in orchestration with the broader planning landscapes. msg’s Production Planning Cockpit (PPC) is a fully integrated, end-to-end planning solution designed to bridge operational supply planning and manufacturing execution within the SAP business suite.
Can be integrated seamlessly into the entire SCM business suite - S/4HANA , ePP/DS and,EWM, the PPC offers a complete package of advanced planning functions — from availability checks and capacity levelling to detailed sequencing and cost simulation — all in one cohesive, user-friendly environment.
Why Choose PPC?
- Unify planning and execution in a central cockpit
- React quickly to constraints and customer commitments
- Improve planning accuracy and on-time delivery performance
- Reduce manual effort and enhance transparency across the value chain
- Simulate what-if scenarios with cost and capacity insights
One Solution – End-to-End Capabilities
The Production Planning Cockpit is delivered as a complete, fully integrated S/4HANA SCM add-on package. Every customer benefits from the full range of capabilities, enabling comprehensive planning coverage across:
- Dynamic multi-level availability checks
- Capacity-aware rescheduling and order confirmations
- Strategic and medium-term planning with period-based levelling
- Preparation for detailed scheduling and execution
- Operation-level sequencing with constraint consideration
- Setup time reduction and capacity smoothing
- MRP with integrated capacity bottleneck simulation
- Planning scenario management and what-if analysis
- Status tracking and booking of production confirmations
- Material provision via kanban or JIT/JIS
- Short-term rescheduling for real-time agility
- Cost-based planning analysis
- Real-time simulation and visualisation of cost impacts
- Performance indicators to support decision-making
- Easy modelling of capacity limits and period constraints
- Mass maintenance tools for efficient data management
- The PPC is seamlessly embedded within SAP S/4HANA. It runs natively with SAP S/4HANA Core and ePP/DS for operational and detailed planning.
- This tight integration ensures a consistent data foundation and supports a unified planning experience within your SAP landscape.
"Whether your focus is capacity levelling, order commitment, or constraint based planning control, the PPC enables agile decision-making and end-to-end planning transparency — all within a framework aligned with SAP’s vision for intelligent, connected enterprises."
Dr. Alexander Iglesias
Head of Manufacturing