Plan Supply to Production
Application component: Advanced Just-In-Time Processing
App type: Transactional
Line of business: Manufacturing
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Just-In-Time Manufacturing (S/4)
Description:  With this application, you can plan for the replenishment of materials that are required in a production supply area (PSA). You can easily identify those materials that are in short supply by checking the missing quantity values displayed for control cycles and can either create JIT call manually or trigger automatic planning. This ensures that the required quantity of the materials is available in the PSA at the required time.  The planning procedure associated with a control cycle determines if a component material is relevant for automatic planning or not. You can directly create a just in time (JIT) call for all control cycles listed irrespective of the planning procedure. However, automatic planning is relevant only for those control cycles for which the planning procedure is demand-driven or consumption-based. With automatic planning, you can get a time-specific overview of the stock availability of a material in a PSA. If the stock level is less, you can create a proposal and simulate the impact of the proposal on the overall stock levels. If satisfied, you can save the proposal as an actual JIT call. 
Plan Supply to Production app helps the production supervisor for automatic JIT call planning for consumption-driven and demand-driven scenarios
Key features:    View a list of all control cycles   Filter control cycles based on the component material, production supply area, person responsible, destination storage location, planning procedure, missing stock at source, planning horizon, supply date/time, priority type, creation date and time of control cycles, replenishment strategy, JIT call creation date/time, JIT call supply date/time, destination warehouse number, and supplier ID. You can also choose Adapt Filters to select additional filters, if required   Track the stock availability of materials in a production supply area by monitoring the available quantity and the missing quantity   View planning elements, planning summary and the proposals associated with each control cycle   Trigger automatic planning for materials for which the planning procedure is demand-driven or consumption-based   Create JIT calls manually from control cycles irrespective of the planning procedure associated with a control cycle   Create proposals to simulate the impact of planning   Create JIT calls from proposals    The external replenishment from external suppliers using SAP transportation management and logistics execution for inbound goods or materials processing, is supported. It is possible to view the Advanced Shipping Notification (ASN), which is considered as a supply element while calculating the stock.   Possible to do demand-driven replenishment planning for primary and secondary control cycles considering planning elements and planning parameters of control cycles using the primary and secondary storage bins as source. The secondary control cycles can be for demand driven or consumption-based planning procedure. The primary control cycles can be of any planning procedure.   Possible to consider the contents of buffer in the assembly production line. A new field titled Buffer Indicator available for JIT calls with takt based planning procedure.   Assess the demand for control cycles with takt based planning procedure using the Automatic Planning option.   Ability to retrieve physical stock for control cycles with takt-based planning procedure based on actual consumption at the assembly production line. The following information is available:  Current stock at the destination bin for a material   Actual physical stock at the destination bin for a material     For control cycles with takt based planning procedure, possible to determine the future demands based on the planning horizon duration for both vehicle assemblies and complex component assemblies. The planning horizon is converted to number of takts.   Possible to calculate and display demand date and time by considering shifts and production breaks (Shift Grouping) configured for complex component assemblies. The demand date and time for production demands within this application are calculated and displayed based on the shift sequences configuration such as the demand date and time do not fall within the non-working hours.   
Business roles: Production Supervisor - Lean Manufacturing
Production Supervisor - Lean Manufacturing : 
Supervises the material flow in a lean manufacturing environment to provide a sufficient supply of material for production processes. Ensures lean material replenishment as defined by the production planner for lean manufacturing.