3803497 - How Production Order Scheduling Works — Scheduling Types, Parameters, and Reduction Measures

Symptom

The scheduling behavior of a production order is not clear. It is not known which scheduling type is used (forward or backward), why a production order receives the status NTER (Dates Not Current), when today scheduling or reduction measures are applied, or how to configure automatic rescheduling.

Environment

SAP ERP Production Planning (PP)
SAP ERP All versions
SAP ERP Central Component All versions
SAP R/3 All versions
SAP R/3 Enterprise All versions
SAP S/4HANA All versions
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition All versions
SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP All versions
SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA All versions

Product

SAP ERP Central Component all versions ; SAP ERP all versions ; SAP R/3 Enterprise all versions ; SAP R/3 all versions ; SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP all versions ; SAP enhancement package for SAP ERP, version for SAP HANA all versions

Keywords

scheduling, backward scheduling, forward scheduling, today scheduling, NTER, dates not current, reduction, lead time, production dates, scheduling parameters, capacity requirements, PP-SFC-PLN, CO02, queue time, overlapping, splitting, move time, order float, automatic scheduling, scheduling with breaks, Functions Schedule , KBA , PP-SFC-PLN-HEA , Header / Operation , PP-CRP-SCH , Scheduling , Problem

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