andem� save you a lot of time in the future. As you may know, we already have had a webinar series on PPDS last year, and we are planning to make this webinar the debut of a new series. So if you have any specific topics you would like covered, there will be a poll coming up soon where you can park your suggestions. Thank you for being here, and let's make the next hour productive and beneficial. We'll start with a quick introduction about our team. Then we will introduce the PPDS system and focus on its key advantages and transformative impact it can have on the planning processes. After that, we will dive into the system with a live demo that illustrates a day of a life of a production planner using PPDS. Following the demo, we'll discuss the future development roadmap of PPDS. This will include an overview of upcoming enhancements and where we're headed next. We'll conclude the session with a Q&A. Please feel free to submit your questions anytime during the webinar via the chat. We have a team of knowledgeable colleagues online today who are eager to assist you with any answers. And finally, we'll close the session with a few remarks to wrap up our session. So let's begin with a quick introduction of our implement team today. Joining me here are my colleagues and production planning experts, Julian and Chris. Julian, would you like to start by introducing yourself? Of course. Hi, everybody. Welcome to our webinar. My name is Julian. I've been with Implement now for approximately two years, but I bring more than six years of supply chain planning and production planning experience. And I'm looking forward to giving you some insights on PPDS today. All right. And then Chris, would you introduce yourself? Hi, I'm Chris Lang. I'm based out of the Hellerup office. I'm one of the PPDS experts with 15 years of experience in SAP and PPDS APO. All right. And I'm Johanna. I am part of our local team in Hamburg, Germany, and I'm a supply chain data analyst. And I've been with Implement for two years, focusing on various aspects of supply chain planning. And today I'm excited to discuss PPDS with you and with Chris and Julian. And additionally, of course, we also have, as mentioned, several skilled colleagues in the chat that can answer your questions during the webinar. Thanks, guys. See you in a minute. So let me tell you first a little bit about our development consulting group. Founded in 1996 as an employee-owned company, we are deeply rooted in Nordic values, which guide our approach and culture. We have experienced significant growth with a compound annual growth rate of over 20%. As a result, while our roots are local, our perspective is global, serving multinational clients and managing projects worldwide. Our headquarters are located in Copenhagen, and we have offices across Europe and the United States, including Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Germany. Our mission is to drive real change and positive change for our clients, ultimately leading to substantial impacts on their business and beyond. We hold strong beliefs that guide our approach. The first one is real change is nurtured from within rather than imposed from the outside. The second is that leaders act as social architects, channeling energy and passion throughout their organization. And of course, while problems can be complicated, solutions cannot and they must remain straightforward and practical. These principles make us a successful partner in transforming businesses across multiple domains, including operating. The S for example with PPDS, but then also growth and innovation, digitalization and IT as well as strategy transformation, leadership and change. And what is also showing that we are by now quite a global company is that this is a global webinar and we are delighted to have participants from all of the world. joining us today and we really appreciate your flexibility joining us at European time and we are thrilled, of course, to have you here today. At Implement Consulting Group, we are a dedicated team of over 250 consultants out of 1,800 who work across all different facets of supply chain planning. Today, our focus will be on production planning. However, we also offer expertise at other critical areas such as, for example, S&OP, S&OP, demand planning and warehouse management. And today, we are diving into the essentials of PPDS, like the foundations that introduce the system to you. In future webinars, we want to dive deeper into some exciting special aspects. Join us on September 18th for our next webinar, where we explore integration strategies and introduce dynamic setup matrices for advanced workload management. And you'll have the opportunity to sign up. And you'll have the opportunity to sign up after this webinar as we will send out a link for sign up with the materials from this webinar. So, and if there's a topic you would like to cover us to cover in a future webinar, please take a moment to participate in our poll. Your feedback is invaluable to us. And yeah, I'll just leave it here for a minute and then you can scan the QR code and thank you in advance your input for your input and support. So, it's really helpful. Okay. So, before we dive in, let's clarify some key approvations that will be relevant throughout the webinar. Although many of you already might be familiar, this is always a good way to ensure we're all on the subject. and we'll see you on the same page. First of all, there's S4HANA. This is SAP's latest cloud -based enterprise resource planning system. And then there's PPDS. And also, although there was recently a name changed announced for it to change it to MPNS, SAP hasn't fully implemented it yet, so we'll stick with PPDS for this webinar. And what is also important is that we refer to, when we refer to PPDS, we are also including ePBDS, which is the embedded version within S4HANA. If you don't have S4HANA, don't worry. PPDS can still function as a sidecar. And that's something we will cover in the next webinar on integration. For now, just remember, if we refer to PPDS, we refer to the latest version of PPDS that's also sometimes called MPNS and occasionally ePBDS, but not to APO. APO is the outdated version that we will not cover today. And with that, I would like to hand over to my colleague, Chris, for some introduction into PPDS. Thanks, S4HANA. Okay, so let's take a look at the timeline from an SAP perspective. So the first APO release, which included PPDS, was back in the late 90s, around 1998. Over the following years, features improved, functionality evolved to the PPDS solution we know today. Around 2015, SAP announced PPDS will be embedded as part of S4HANA. The dates have moved a couple of times, but now, as of today, it's the 31st of December, and SAP will no longer support APO without additional costs. The last couple of years, we've also seen a shift in where SAP put the development efforts. So there's a lot more going into PPDS from a few years. So, with a constraint-based planning roadmap full of Fiori-based features, which are not compatible with GUI. So why the need to have embedded PPDS? So with demand and supply planning now being covered and taken care of by IBP, and supplier collaboration in Ariba, GATP and PPDS both needed a new home, and embedding them in S4HANA seemed logical, with GATP now becoming AATP, and PPDS becoming ePPDS. We can now see from this slide here, there is still an opportunity to have PPDS as a sidecar solution. So they took the PPDS from APO and moved it into S4HANA fundamentally. Good. If you're an SAP customer working with APO today, there's APO, as you know, on the left-hand side of this screen. Then there's all the common ground between APO and PPDS in S4HANA in the middle. Then there's the exciting new stuff. So all the Fiori-based features, all the benefits that we see from SAP putting time into features like tank planning and MRP Live and the cross-app navigation. One really fundamental thing about embedded PPDS is it's within S4HANA, so there's no longer the need to log into two separate systems, which really brings benefits if you're used to comparing things like MDO4 and then having to go to Receipt View and look at two different data. So the information is still available. All the old-school forward slash SAP APO GUI transactions are still available in S4HANA, but the benefits are really coming from the Fiori front end and providing a really cool user experience for the planners. Good. I'll hand over to Julian, who will give you some more information about production planning and scheduling. Thank you. Amazing, Chris. Thank you. And thank you, Johanna. Yeah. Now many of you might ask the question, yeah, okay, that's nice, but why should we actually care? And the answer to that is fairly simple. So in the end, my clicker does not work. One second. In the end, it's all about the customers that we are trying to serve. So they want our products on the shelf, on time and in full. And of course, we want to serve them without over or under utilizing our resources, meaning we want to avoid additional cost that we spend on our operations that are essentially not necessary. And another point, and there are many more, of course, but another point that I want to highlight today is actually that our own employees, they also must be satisfied and kept happy. In the end, if they have a very inconsistent workload and have to work a lot of overtime, they will at some point ask themselves the question, okay, is this maybe the right place for me? Is it not? So it is essential that we keep our own employees happy as well. And of course, there are many, many more points that we could cover. So a lot of points that I don't want to go into detail now because we just don't have the time in our webinar today, but I'll pause for a second to give you a few seconds to read through it and then we'll go on with actually some of the benefits on the positive side. Okay. Good. So if we then look at the positive side of PBDS or production planning and detail scheduling in general, what's the benefits that we gain? And production planning detail scheduling is basically enabling us to gain all those operational efficiencies that we strive for. In our projects at Implement, we have seen throughput increases of up to 25%. And we have seen delivery performance increases of up to 25%. And when it comes to waiting time, again, referring back to our employees and also in this time to our machines, we have seen reductions in waiting time of up to 50%. Naturally, this will lead to not only top line increases, but of course also a reduction in our operational expenses. Cool. Cool. So how does sub-PPDS come into play now? Sub-PPDS is basically the tool that enables us to gain those operational efficiencies. And how does it do that? Basically, a few key points to mention here. First of all, some of you might be using sub-IBP. The addition of PPDS allows you to fully synchronize your planning end-to-end and achieve those operational gains really along the entire value chain. Another point that needs to be mentioned here is that your production planners with PPDS can actually focus on what really matters. The exception-based planning functionality in PPDS allows them to automatically plan the major part of their production, but then focus on alerts and exceptions that really need the attention. And then PPDS does something that many other systems do as well, and that is it takes a lot of constraints into account, leading again to the operational efficiencies that we want so desperately. So in our opinion, PPDS is the future and also the best -in-class detail scheduling solution. And we believe that with these functionalities that we will show you in a minute in the demo, PPDS will be the best solution for you as well. But, okay, all good, nice. But what is it essentially? How does it work? As I already mentioned, PPDS is the perfect addition to the tactical and strategic planning that we do in sub-IBP. So it's a little bit about the tactical and strategic planning that we have to do in a lot of the analytics cloud. And what it does is it takes the orders that are usually created on a IBP time series weekly bucket basis and optimizes them in the short term for the daily operations to be useful at the shop floor. Usually we're looking at a three to 12 weeks horizon, depending on your production strategy and your planning setup. But essentially what PPDS does in short is it takes a production plan, that might not really, that might not really be feasible because we have overloads, we have too many orders planned on one day, we have maybe underutilization on the other day, and takes into consideration all your constraints and creates a feasible production plan. And with this, I think, Chris, it's time for the demo. Perfect. Thank you. So before we get into the demo, we'll just set the scene a little bit so you understand what it is that we're going to be showing. So what we'll see is we'll give an introduction to Fury. We'll show the Fury homepage. We'll talk a bit about detailed scheduling, and we'll show you some of the manual heuristics and the heuristics that you can run in the Fury app. We'll then look at capacity planning and an app called Monitor Capacity Utilization. And then we'll do some interactive planning with capacity planning. So yeah, let's set the scene a little bit more. So today we'll meet Lisa. Lisa's the persona we're going to use for our demo, and she's a operational production planner at the production site. Lisa works at Scooter Production Plans, where they produce four finished goods. It's a city scooter in yellow and green, an off-road scooter in the same colours, so yellow and green. These are all assembled on a scooter assembly line, and there's also a backup assembly line, which the side prefer not to use. The scooters have a very similar bond structure with a baseboard assembly, a handlebar assembly. You can also see the difference in the baseboard assembly with different suspension types, which is dependent on the finished product. As an operational planner, Lisa is consistently facing challenges. She makes a production plan using the scheduling heuristic. She then has to interfere with the production plan due to some unplanned downtime. which the maintenance team notifies about. This causes capacity issues, which are then highlighted through the alert monitor. And then Lisa can then solve these issues, but not without creating a challenge on component availability. So that's what we're going to see in the demo. Let's take a look in the system and see the demo. Some of the Furi apps that will support Lisa in operational planning. Let's first take a brief introduction to Furi. So when we log in, we're presented with my homepage. These are all my favorite apps. And tiles that I build as I build as I build as I get more and more experienced as a production planner. So we'll start with spaces. So spaces are role based. So in order to access, for example, the advanced planning space, you need the relevant role assignment. So that's the first thing. Spaces are based on role assignment. The other important thing for PPDS is the subject of area of responsibility. So if we search area of responsibility, there's work center responsibility and also MRP controller. So MRP controller. So if we take MRP controller. So for example, with the monitor material coverage app, there's a filter where I can search by plant and MRP controller. If I take the dropdown, NN1 will be there. However, unless I've got the area of responsibility assigned, the app won't retrieve any of the area of responsibility. So it's a kind of sub layer of control and what data that the Furi apps display and what the users can do. Good. So that's important for work centers and MRP controllers. Let's go back to the homepage. We can see click on the SAP icon in the corner, takes to our homepage, and then we've got our spaces. So if we look in into the spaces, interactive and automated planning, master data and administration. So spaces can be accessed along the top bar up here, but also down the left-hand side here. So interactive planning, master data administration. If we click on advanced planning, we can see we've got receipts view, product view, order view, monitor capacity utilization. And then if we take the subsection of master data, we have maintain location, maintain product. Again, all Furi apps are still role-based. So it's not like everybody can have access to whatever they want that is controlled there. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to add some of these most frequently used apps to my homepage. So I'm going to right click up here on my username and click edit current page. And I'm going to say, add to my homepage. Add to my homepage. Add to my homepage. Add to my homepage. And we'll take these four. Add to my homepage. Now this is one way of adding apps to your homepage. You can also do it from within the app yourself, which you'll see later on in the demo. But here we've added four apps to our homepage. If I click up here and say edit current homepage, I've then got the option to create additional sections. So I can say section one and I can move apps into different sections. I can also change the style and the shape of the tile. So I can convert it to a link. Or I can convert it to a flat wide tile. And we can move them around. Which is nice. So you get to build up this jigsaw puzzle of all the most useful apps to you as a user. If we just finish editing our homepage for now, I'll explain the two different types of Furi apps. So when you're in Furi, you'll see two different layouts. One is, if we take, for example, display MRP master data issues, this is called a SAP UI5 Furi app. So it has this familiar look and feel about it when you start working in Furi, where we have a filters bar across the top, which can be hidden or can be pinned. And you can adapt the filters. And depending on what app you're in, the number of filters will differ. So here you can see we've got the first four material MRP controller issues category. We can take the drop down and whether it's accepted or not selected. We could also add in description and then we get this additional description filter. And then you can search and you can filter based on these sections up here. So once you've saved your filters, you've also got the option to control what happens in the bottom section with this settings icon here. So here we've got material MRP area issues category source MRP controller and so on. We can take the drop down and then we can select more or less data depending on what we think is important for the task that we're doing. You can then save these up here, which is layouts and you manage these and you can save it as a different view. You can also save as a tile up here, which will save this, this layout. So almost like a variant and it will save as a tile on your desktop. For those of you who have been working in APO. The other type of app is called SAP GUI for HTML. So if we take again, for example, Receipt View, it looks like the Receipt View that we see today in APO. So you can see this is very much a Receipt View transaction embedded into HTML. So this is something that SAP and the next release looking to replace with an updated UI5. So this is a UI5 version of the app. So not everything is UI5 enabled yet, but SAP are developing new UI5 Fury apps to replace some of their HTML ones. So they're the two different types of apps that we see today, the homepage and how the different spaces were. Okay, so now let's have a look how we can help Lisa with some of the advanced planning apps in operational planning. So under advanced planning, we've got the advanced scheduling board. So this is the Fury, the SAP's Fury based detailed scheduling board. If we select advanced planning, we can see it kind of has this, you know, kind of familiar Fury feel about it now where we, you know, we have these filters and then we've got these settings for what can be controlled down in this bottom pane down here. So first thing we're going to do is select the horizon. So date range will take from the 22nd of June till the 12th of July. Now we need to select which resources we want to load into the advanced scheduling board. And we know there's a scooter line. So we can search for scooter. And we'll put the scooter assembly line and the backup line in. We also know there's a handlebar line. where we assemble handlebars and a baseboard line. Base. Good. So that's all for resources selected the horizon selected and we press go. We then see the chart that selected is the resource chart and we can see we've got really small intervals here five minutes. So I'm going to press the birds eye view and it's going to take us to our the view of what orders we've got in scope. So first thing I'm going to do is change the sequence of how my resources are sorted because I've got my baseboard and then my scooter and my backup. My preference is to click on settings and I would like to sort by. sort string. So OK. Then I have my assembly line. I have my baseboard and then have my handlebar line and the assembly line to as a backup. So there's nothing scheduled on there today. I can also see if I expand on my scooter line. I've got lots of what looks like capacity issues. However, there's no alert profile assigned yet. So what I want to do is I'm going to click on my settings over here. I'm going to click on profile settings and I'm going to assign my alert profile. And this alert profile has been set up to look for capacity constraints along with their components issues. If I click on alerts. We can see there's 35 alerts generated. Lots of problems. So first thing I want to do is run a heuristic and I want to sequence these these lines to see if the heuristic for sequencing is going to help us out on it. I don't expect it to move any of these orders because these are process orders and these are planned orders. So we can see the following week we've we've converted the planned orders to process orders. Now we can see that is by if I look at the logs. So if I look at the legend we can see the difference in colors. So production process orders. These are the dark purple color and then the planned orders at the lighter blue color. We can see that we've got change over matrix in place because we've got set up time between orders. And we can see that we've got change over here. And we can see it's sequence dependent by the triangle at the start of the order. Good. Let's close the legend and then we'll run a heuristic to help sort out some of these problems. So we'll select all resources and then we click on automated planning. We click on heuristic and we're going to select R. SAP P. Enhanced backwards schedule heuristic. And we execute. Then we go back. In this week 27 plan we've got the assembly line sequence along with the baseboard and the handlebar line. And if we click on our alerts, hopefully we're in the clear. So no alerts. It looks like we've got a good plan. So as you can see, this is the resource chart which we've selected. But you can also take the drop down and you can click on order chart. And you can add the order chart. And you can see the different orders. So, you know, not entirely different to what we've seen before with the GUI-based detailed scheduling board. But just a little bit more flexible in terms of we can add resources. We can add different charts once we're within the Fury app itself. We don't have to leave and go back to the selection screen. Select a different profile or a different work area. So you've got the orders chart. You've got the operations chart. You've got the product stock visualization chart. Obviously, the more same with, you know, the GUI version, the more charts you add, the messier it gets. So the good thing about Fury is, though, you can select the chart. You can save it as a tile. And then it's very easy to access just the product stock chart for this data set or just the orders chart for the data set or a combination of two or three. So really dynamic, really flexible, really easy to get the information that you need. So because we're predominantly going to work with the resource chart in this scenario, we'll just keep the resource chart selected. And then what we want to do is we want to have this easy for Lisa to access. So we're going to save it. So we'll come up here and we'll do save as. And we're going to say scooter lines. And we're going to apply automatically. Set as default. And you've got this option to make it public. So if you make a tile public, you can share it with your colleagues and then they can also have the same tile saved to their home page. So if one of your schedulers is going on holiday, they can make a tile public, they can share it and then they don't have to know, OK, load these products in, load these resources in, decide it's very easy to share these tiles. So good. We've got scooter lines as our view. You can see up here, scooter lines, we could create another view that was scooter line orders and then it would just load the orders in automatically and then we save as a tile. So come up here, save as tile. And then we don't want it to be called advanced scheduling board. We can say scooter scheduling. Subtitle will say Lisa. And we can say resource chart. And where do we want to save it? I will save it to my home page. So let's go to our home page. And you can see we've got scooter scheduling for Lisa resource chart. And we can always tidy this up by edit current home page. And we can say scheduling. Call this section scheduling. This example that we created before, we don't need that. So we've got one called materials. planning. One called setup matrix and you can add tiles or you can add different fury apps into this as you see fit. Close. And now if we select scooter line. We see it automatically loads the data. We got the message because we need to adopt. Now we've created a sequence. We've created a lot of operations. We know that our maintenance manager now walks in and tells us that you need some downtime to replace a paint sprayer. And that of course impacts the production sequence we've just made. So we need to figure out what impact it has and how we can navigate around the situation. So I'm going to add a app called monitor capacity utilization. And I can search for that in the catalog monitor. monitor capacity utilization. I've added it to my home screen. And let's go and take a look. So monitor capacity utilization. You can change the evaluation horizon that you're focusing on with the data that you're loading. We're going to add a filter. And we want plant and we want resource. So the plant is P100. So the plant is P100. And the resource is our finished goods line. So let's take a look. Let's first add in the downtime that we need. So this really useful app for monitoring capacity, but we can also adjust the capacity of the line as well. So we can see right now it looks pretty nice. This overview is utilization, but you can also look at materials. So it can tell you which SKUs are consuming, how much time in each of the days on the line. You can also look at the different order types. So planned orders, process orders, and then you can also look at different activities. So how much time is being consumed by setup, how much is consumed by teardown and production time. So slight side step, but let's go to the shift table and click on edit. And then we come down and we want to add some downtime. And the downtime we need to add is on the fifth. And it starts at 6am. And it finishes at 6pm. Start at 6am. Finish. 6pm on the fifth. And then we should be able to see instantly the utilization shows us that we're over capacity now. The other issue is the day after the sprayer is replaced. We only want to run at 50% capacity. So we come down. To the sixth. And we change the utilization rate here to 50%, which is going to make it even worse. Fantastic. Good. So let's go and have a look at our scheduling board again. So we can see the downtime has been placed on the fifth as we asked it to. And the orders are now going to take longer on the sixth because of the utilization rate of the line. Okay. So let's see if we can make use of the backup scooter assembly line to help resolve some of the alerts that we've got, because we've got over capacity alerts and we've got issues with scooters not being delivered on time as it is. So we'll take this order and let's switch source of supply. And we'll move it to our second production version. We'll then select the lines and we'll run a scheduling heuristic again. And we'll use the same heuristic as before. Backward scheduling. Trying to ensure we hit all of the requirement dates. No errors in the logs, which is good. Check alerts. No alerts. So now we've made use of some spare capacity on the 29th. We've got an order running on the assembly line too. And the schedule looks good. Now, because I'm an experienced production scheduler, I know that if I move orders across lines, there is an impact on some of the materials. So in this instance, we might use a different wrap type or a different glue type or a different paint type. So what I'm going to do is I don't want to wait until the MRP runs in its next cadence and then let the materials planner look at the impact. I think we'll run an MRP and see if there's any issues. So we will go back to our homepage. And this time we will just say run MRP. And we'll schedule an MRP run. And we can see that we've got what's called a template for scooter line MRP. So this contains all the materials that are relevant for the scooter line. And then we'll copy that template and then we'll schedule. And then the jobs run. And we can see that we scheduled a job at 1611. And you get the job log and it tells you that the job's complete. So let's go back to our scooter schedule line and check alerts. And we can see through the alert that we've got an issue with a violated date or time receipts due to glue type B. So we've got a purchase requisition on the 15th of the 7th, but the demand is on the 3rd of the 7th. So it looks like we've got a potential issue with glue. So let's go take a look at how we can resolve the glue issue. So let's go back to our homepage. So let's go back to our homepage. And we want an app that I know is in the production planning section called monitor material coverage. And it was glue type B. And we can see that we've got a shortage in 11 days time. And we can also see through this. Visual graphic of stock availability that we've got supply issues. Now, again, this hasn't been customized, but we can change what columns we can see in here. So it's much more useful. So the shortage quantity is a small amount of glue in 11 days time. Let's go to manage material coverage. And we can see we've got our off-road scooter with the dependent requirements on the 3rd of the 7th. And then the earliest the purchase requisition can be generated from our primary vendor is the 15th of the 7th. So let's take a look into the app. The system then comes up with multiple different options. We can either accept the shortage and then we would have to go and reschedule the production plan. We have the purchase requisition on our primary vendor, which the proposal is to move it in 12 days time, which would cover the requirement on the 3rd of the 7th. We do have an alternative vendor. And then there's two options to either create a new purchase order for the alternative vendor. That can be on the 2nd of the 7th because the lead time between the two vendors is shorter. So an alternative vendor can supply the product within a shorter lead time from our primary vendor. So in this example, what we want to do is we will decide to use our alternative vendor. So let's take our new purchase order. Let's say apply this solution, but let's create the requisition and we'll let the materials planner take responsibility for converting the purchase requisition to a purchase order. We say OK. The system now creates a requisition, which we can see is fixed because it's been manually created. Creates it for the 3rd of the 7th, knowing that that's within the lead time that the vendor can supply. And then we can see the requisition. And then we can green back arrow. Press go and the shortage quantity disappears. We can also then select the material and say start MRP run and that will ensure that the requisition that is no longer needed for our primary vendor is deleted. So we've now got one purchase requisition that's fixed for the requisition. So we've got the alternative vendor to the alternative vendor covering our requirements. If we now go back into our scooter scheduling line. Check our alerts. We can see the alert has now gone. So we know we've got a good plan. We've got our downtime visible. We're making use of our alternative assembly line and we have no material requirements issues. That gives us a good overview of how we move between material coverage apps maintaining capacity. I think we've had a little look into some of the features around the monitor capacity utilization, which is a really, really useful app. We could spend more than an hour talking about the features within the monitor capacity utilization app. But hopefully it gives you a nice flavor of the difference between working with the advanced schedule and the advanced schedule. So we're going to be able to do the board and the board and the board and the fury apps, what the embedded HTML GUI apps look like and the difference between them. Thank you. Perfect. Now you've had a small glimpse of the system and what it looks like. And you've heard before about all the benefits of PPDS. So now let's have a look at what the future of PPDS actually looks like. And for SAP PPDS is of course a strategic development topic. Chris and I have actually just spent a few days in Waldorf at the SAP headquarters where we were allowed to test the new features coming out in October this year. And unfortunately, we're not allowed to go into the details of the new features coming out in October. But what we can say is that we will see many improvements in regard to the Fiori interface, including simplification of master data maintenance. And we will see more and more advanced planning functionalities, especially, but not only of course in the process industry. Another point to highlight is that SAP also enhances the reporting and KPI monitoring capabilities, ensuring more and more transparency on your production plans, and this will enable your plan to actually proactively steer your production. In general, we can say planning will become more touchless and we will see an increased level of automation along the planning process. Yep. All right. So. Bit more into the details. Again, I don't want to talk about every single point on the slide, but just a small glimpse at the upcoming developments. Again, rest assured that especially the Fiori apps will be enhanced and new solution features will also entail the enhancement of AI capabilities in production planning and detail scheduling through Trueul, SAP's own AI. And Trueul will help us define parameters and interpret results. And of course, there will be many more points that we can look forward to. Yes. And of course, in such a short webinar of one hour and the demo that we just showed you, we cannot show you all the features that PPDS and functionalities. However, there's a lot more to discover and may it be characteristic dependent planning, the production planning optimizer, some improved shelf life planning, some improved shelf life planning, and a lot more features. In the next years, SAP will also further improve key functionalities like product substitution. We talked about improvements in the process industry. So we will also see improvements to, for example, tank planning. We will also see improvements to planning how to implement that in the. To sum it up, we believe that PPDS is a state of art planning and scheduling tool now and for the foreseeable future. And now if you think, okay, that's cool. And we really like it, but how do we get started? Well, that depends, of course, on your individual environment that you operate in. A few key questions, however, that you should ask yourself are, for instance, where are you on your S4 journey? Meaning, have you implemented S4 already? Are you running on ECC or using another ERP system? Because that will, of course, affect implementation roadmap. If you're using APO today, that will, of course, have an impact on how you can leverage PPDS on the key functionalities that you use and how you will transfer those into PPDS. Again, I mentioned some of you may be using IBP already. And of course, it's not a prerequisite to do that. But there are synergies to be leveraged through the two systems. So that's not a key question you should ask yourself. And then again, of course, depending on the industry that you operate in, you might face different challenges. And of course, that needs to be taken into consideration as well. In the end, it's all about the business impact. Is it worth it to go to PPDS and have you thought through all the benefits and maybe also challenges that might come with it? And with that, I think it's time now to hand over to Johanna again, because she will guide us through the Q&A in the chat. Thank you, Julian. So after this insightful demo and all sets into how PPDS works today and how PPDS is going to work in the future even better, we have gathered some questions from the chat. We have gathered some questions from the chat for you guys that we will be answered. So the first one is, in the demo, we could see the color legend for the different objects. Is it possible to configure custom colors through a decision table like it was an APO? If I may take the question. Yes. So, of course, we cannot say what will come in October. We're not allowed to do so. But SAP has this in the pipeline and there will be the possibility to improve visualization through colors coming up. Cool. Thanks. So the next question, maybe to Chris. Can you execute custom heuristics in Fiori in the scheduling board? So, yes, you can execute custom heuristics in Fiori advanced scheduling board. They obviously like everything that's custom needs to be tested. There is, they just need to be added to the heuristic framework. So there's a table and you need to add the heuristic to the table and tell the system that it can be executed from the Fiori app. So, yeah. All right. Thank you very much. The next question, I think, maybe also to you, is PPDS available in cloud? Okay. So, in cloud. So, PPDS is available embedded on-prem. Also in private cloud, there's an embedded solution. Public cloud PPDS is not available for public cloud use. There is also the sidecar edition as well, the DSC edition of PPDS. But again, there's no integration into public cloud. It would be, you would use the sidecar edition if you had multiple ERP systems that you wanted to integrate into one PPDS solution. Or if you wanted to upgrade your PPDS solution before upgrading your ECC system. Thank you. Third question, maybe to you, Julian. And the next question, is the Fiori board and the ASB works exactly the same with setup matrix and APO? Yes and no. So, the ASB, the advanced scheduling board, will see some improvements. So, one new feature will be, or is already, but it will be further enhanced, the setup matrix profile, which basically allows you to eliminate all those connections and transitions and transitions that are not needed. So, you go basically from the entire list of thousands of transitions that are possible to those that are actually used in the system based on the characteristics that you have given or assigned to the product. Okay. Thank you very much. One more question here is, with ePBDS, does the interface still exist and the core interface still exist and the need for integration models? Okay. Yes. The core interface does still exist. It's just a much simplified model. So, in your materials, you have an advanced planning indicator that you select to tell the system that it's relevant for advanced planning, the same as your work centers. Now, in terms of integration models that are still needed, there's a very few number of data objects off the top of my head. I think it's classes and classes. So, you have to go into the characteristics, which are the characteristics, which are the material independent objects. You've also got contracts, info records, but it's maybe three or four elements that aren't necessarily critical to PPDS. So, much more simplified, but still a core interface. Thank you. I can see that we have some new questions here in the chat. I'm just going to pick two because we still have a little bit of time. Someone mentioned yesterday, S4 Lite. What is the difference between the full and the S4 Lite? I'm not sure, to be honest. I also think that the S4 Lite might relate to the ERP system and not to PPDS. And I think that is probably why this is not so much subject of the webinar, and might be asked, and might be asked, a question asked to an ERP expert instead of a PPS expert. There is one more. Is there any future upgrades which can help do capacity planning on tools, equipments? On equipment tools? Good question. In terms of equipment tools, I'm not sure what FCP have. There's quite a lot in product vision, specifically around equipment tools. I'm not sure what's in there from an equipment perspective. So, we'd have to check. But I think it's definitely a point that we can take back to SAP as well and ask them. Yes. I can see that there's a lot more. I think we will read to you, Marius, after the webinar to discuss this in a little bit more detail because we can clarify a little bit better what has meant here. I see one more question as well from AHA. How would you perform the MPS, mid- and long-term planning, using S4 PPD? Maybe I can answer that, actually. I would say that we would always recommend the mid- and long-term planning to be done in IBP because that is what the tool is made for. However, we also know that some of our customers have used PPDS, especially for operational planning, and that is definitely possible. However, it is a bit of a more complex solution, of course, if we want to set it up. So, that's maybe also something that we could discuss after the webinar in a little bit more detail. And I mean, there is also a multi-horizon heuristic, which is available to run different lot sizes in different horizons as well. So, you could say for the first four weeks, we want to do lot sizing from the material master, which could be lot for lot, lot sizing, for example. And then in the four-week to 12-week horizon, we want to use lot sizing that's defined within the heuristic itself. So, there is an option there with a standard heuristic for multi-periods. Okay. We have one more question here, which is, in the Monitor Materia Coverage Fiori app, would it be possible to extend the data like next batch expiration date? So, you may have the full stock now. But if you batch expires in two days, then you go from full stock to stock out. How do you get info about this in advance? Well, if I remember from the roadmap, the stock out functionality is something that SAP is still working on. So, I believe something on that is in the pipeline that has not yet been released, but is planned to be released soon. Yeah, exactly. And there's plenty of functionality available with using BTP to build, to add in custom fields and pull standard data as well. All right. Yeah. Then, thank you very much for all your questions. I can see there's still a lot. That is maybe a little bit too, requires a little bit more of, how do you say, differentiating five minutes. But we will reach out to you after the webinar. So, we'll make sure to get questions answered with the right depth to it. So, with that, we will come to the end on the Q&A. 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