SAP Production Planning Maturity Assessment: How Healthy Is Your PP Process?
Before changing tools or hiring consultants, it helps to know where your production planning process actually stands. This ten question assessment scores master data, MRP discipline, execution and reporting in under five minutes.
1. How accurate are your BOMs and routings compared with what the shop floor really does?
2. How reliable are lead times and in-house production times on the material master?
3. How often does MRP run, and does everyone trust the output?
4. How are MRP exception messages handled?
5. How timely are production order confirmations?
6. How are failed goods movements (COGI) handled?
7. How do you manage capacity?
8. How good is your reporting on order status and shortages?
9. How controlled is master data change (BOM, routing, material)?
10. How well do planners and shop floor know the SAP process?
How to use the assessment
Answer each question for your main plant as it really operates, not as designed. Ask a planner and a shop floor supervisor to answer separately and compare scores, because the gap between views is often more telling than the score. You get a total, a band and specific next steps, and you can export the result to share with your team.
What the questions measure
Questions one and two cover data accuracy: BOMs, routings and lead times drive everything MRP and scheduling produce. Questions three and four cover MRP discipline and exception handling. Questions five and six cover execution: confirmation timing and goods movement errors. The rest cover capacity, reporting, change control and knowledge. A low score in the first group usually explains low scores elsewhere.
- Bad lead times produce plausible but wrong planned order dates.
- A large exception backlog usually means MRP settings are not tuned to the plant.
- Late confirmations make stock and WIP wrong, which then breaks the next MRP run.
Reading your result
The score is not a benchmark against other companies; it is a way to prioritise. Fix data first, discipline second and automation last. Automation on top of poor master data speeds up the wrong answers. Retake the assessment after improvements to see which areas moved, and record the date so you can show progress.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this assessment specific to S/4HANA?
No. The questions apply to ECC and S/4HANA production planning alike, since they concern data quality, MRP discipline and shop floor execution. S/4HANA adds new tools, but the process fundamentals are the same.
Who should fill it in?
Ideally a planner, a production supervisor and the SAP PP key user separately, then compare answers. If you only have one respondent, ask them to answer for the typical week rather than the best week.
What score is good enough?
Above 65 percent is a workable base for most plants. Below 40 means master data and daily routines need attention before investing in new tools or dashboards.
Does the tool store my answers?
The assessment runs in your browser and nothing is sent to us unless you choose the optional follow-up. You can export the result to PDF or Excel to keep it for your own records.
If your result shows a large exception backlog or unreliable reports, Netray can review your SAP planning data read-only and suggest where automation would help and where plain configuration fixes are enough.
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