production planning

Hi all,

I am very much new to sap and to this forum also. Current I have received an opportunity to work on implementation project but due to less exp ( specially in SOP ) I am facing lot of problem .my collegue suggested me to take help from this forum and I am seeing that you people are doing a great job.

client is into manufacturing of auto parts and tools

I am in to AS IS phase and there main concern is How to do planning for material (Raw ,consumables etc) man power, cost , capacity requirement and minimum stock level . In their existing process they are considering previous year data ,down loading in to excel sheet and making a report.

They are producing the material considering the order received( export and domestic) ,available stock ,minimum stock level ,machine capacity and then generating a production order.

For export they manufacture only after getting the order.

How I will map this in to SAP and the planning strategy to be used.

Regards

Mona