• Evolution from APO PP/DS to embedded ePP/DS
• Business benefits of advanced planning and scheduling
• Make-to-stock and make-to-order scenarios
• End-to-end production planning overview
• Integration with core PP, MM, and SD
• Planning area and model concepts
• CIF-free data consistency
• Architecture supports real-time planning
• Bills of material and routings
• Resources and capacities
• Production versions and PDS generation
• Master data ensures accurate planning
• Sales orders and forecast integration
• Strategy groups and planning relevance
• Demand prioritization
• Demand drives production planning
• Standard heuristics usage
• Planning logic and sequencing
• Custom heuristic overview
• Heuristics automate planning decisions
• Capacity evaluation and bottleneck analysis
• Resource utilization and leveling
• Constraint-based planning concepts
• Optimization improves feasibility
• Sequence-dependent setup times
• Order dispatching rules
• Manual and automated scheduling
• Scheduling improves delivery performance







