Explore how automation, heuristics and optimisers can improve production planning efficiency. This session gives you practical insights, live demos and expert perspectives to help you strengthen your PPDS setup and prepare for future‑ready supply chain planning.

Overview
This webinar explores how automation, heuristics and optimisers enhance production planning in SAP PPDS. The session introduces key concepts, recaps previous learnings and outlines how PPDS supports efficient and resilient scheduling. You will gain both foundational understanding and practical guidance to help improve planning performance.

Team and expertise
Specialists from Implement Consulting Group and invited SAP experts share hands‑on experience across supply chain planning, including PPDS, S4HANA and APO transition scenarios. Through real examples, they highlight typical challenges, opportunities for improvement and the value of maturing planning capabilities over time.

Key concepts explained
The webinar covers planning heuristics, PP and DS optimisers and the differences between manual, rule‑based and cost‑based approaches. It explains when each method is appropriate and how they work in combination. The speakers also address capacity constraints, data quality and common migration scenarios.

Live demos
Two demonstrations show how PPDS generates planned orders, how setup matrices work and how optimisers schedule based on costs and constraints. The examples reveal how the system reacts to demand variation, capacity overloads and multi‑resource options, offering relevant insights for real production environments.

SAP perspectives
SAP experts share updates on PPDS development, including embedded analytics, flexible constraints, IBP integration and AI‑driven planning assistance. They explain how PPDS and IBP complement one another and how planners will increasingly benefit from guided decisions, better transparency and explanation tools.