A production planning run in Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) is designed to create procurement proposals to cover net requirements. For requirements to be fulfilled via in-house production, the system generates planned orders. For requirements to be met through external procurement where a scheduling agreement is the designated source of supply, the system creates scheduling agreement schedule lines. These proposals are temporary planning elements that are subsequently converted into executable orders (like production orders or purchase orders) in a separate business step.

C. Production order: A production order is an execution-level document. It is created by converting a planned order, not directly by the planning run itself.

D. Purchase order: A purchase order is a firm commitment to a vendor. The planning run creates a purchase requisition, which is then converted into a purchase order.

1. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal

"Procurement Proposal": "In a planning run

the system creates procurement proposals to cover product requirements. The following types of procurement proposals exist: Planned orders for in-house production

Purchase requisitions for external procurement

Scheduling agreement schedule lines for external procurement." This document explicitly lists planned orders and scheduling agreement schedule lines as outputs.

2. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal

"Production Planning Run": "The production planning run is the central planning function of Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) that executes procurement planning for products... The system creates PP/DS planned orders for in-house production and purchase requisitions for external procurement." This confirms the creation of planned orders as a primary result.

3. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal

"Scheduling Agreement in PP/DS": "If a scheduling agreement exists for a product that is procured externally

the production planning run creates scheduling agreement schedule lines." This directly confirms that schedule lines are a possible result of the planning run.

4. SAP S/4HANA 2023 Help Portal

"Conversion of Procurement Proposals": "You convert procurement proposals to create manufacturing orders (production orders or process orders) and purchasing documents (purchase orders)." This section clarifies that production orders and purchase orders are the result of a separate conversion step

not the initial planning run.