PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL-THEORETICAL VIEW AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SAP/R3 IN AN AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY

For the car industry, progress and flexibility represent the keys for success. Cutting down the costs concerning the organization of the manufacture and production is the major claim of the current world of automobiles. Production Planning and Control- PP&C occupies an important place in this flux of information and materials. Throughout this paper, the most important features of SAP/R3- an instrument of development PP&C for a company in the automobile area will be briefly described. The spectrum of applications offered by SAP/R3 covers all the marketing and management modules known by this time. The circuit of manufacture controlling starts with the aperture and release of the order and ends with the manufacture of the product itself. The performances are defined for a particular order. In this way, the outputs of products are being registered from the economical and technical point of view and the resulted materials are being inventoried on their value and quantity