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SAP Sales and Operations Planning Tutorial By this point you should have completed the first task of your SAP internship: the 2005 sales forecast. In this tutorial you will learn about SAP’s built in Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) tool. This planning tool will allow you to formulate a rough-cut production plan based on the sales data you have created. It is important to note that the rough-cut plan is just that, only a plan. When you create the plan you are not scheduling production in the system. SAP separates the action of planning from production scheduling to allow different plans to be created and analyzed before they are actually used in production. This process allows a company to run a few different plans to see which is best. Following the creation of the rough-cut plan you will learn how to transfer this data to the demand management function. Demand management is the link between the rough-cut plan and production scheduling. While SAP wanted companies to have the ability to check several different plans without actually scheduling production, it was still necessary to allow the rough-cut plan to be turned into a production schedule. Not only is this a very fast and easy way to create a production schedule based on the rough-cut plan, but it keeps the planning data secure from human data entry errors. Next, you will activate the material requisition planning (MRP) run for the SOS Inc. Beach cruiser model LX (BC-LX). Finally, you will convert the planned production order for the Beach Cruiser LX into and actual production order. Part 1: Display Stock/Requirements List Before we create our rough-cut sales and operations plan, let’s take a look at the current production for the SOS Beach Cruisers. This data is displayed on the stock/requirements list screen. The stock requirements list screen displays pretty much what the name implies; the stock level and future requirements for a material. Every material used in Beach Cruiser p