Time Ticket Confirmation for Phases (SAP Library - Process Management (PP-PI-PMA))

Time Ticket Confirmation for Phases

Use

You can use this function to perform time ticket confirmations directly from within production by using a process message. Thus, one process message sent from production is enough to confirm all activities performed for a phase along with the resource used.

You can confirm the following data:

Activities performed (for example, machine time, labor time, duration, or energy consumption)
Yield and scrap quantity, provided that the planning and recording of scrap has been defined for the order type
Primary resource

You can also confirm phases as follows:

Time ticket confirmation

Using function calls from within PI sheets

Manually from within the area menu for process orders

If you use the relevant transaction for time ticket confirmation, you can also update standard values and confirm HR data.

Time event confirmation

Using a process message from within the PI sheet or the process control system

For more information, see:

Time Event Confirmation for Phases

Time Event Confirmation for Secondary Resources

Manually from within the area menu for process orders

Unlike time ticket confirmation, you only confirm a single time event, such as the start or end of a phase or one activity, in every process message you send.

Integration

You can request process messages for time ticket confirmation from within the PI sheet or the process control system in a process instruction.

You can, for example:

Define a process data request for the PI sheet to request a time ticket confirmation for a specific phase
Define a process message subscription for process control systems to request time ticket confirmations for all phases of a control recipe requiring confirmation

Customizing of the SAP reference client contains several sample process instruction categories for time ticket confirmation. For general information on process instructions, see Process Instructions.

Prerequisites

The control key that has been assigned to the phase allows confirmation.

The process order has been released.

No time event confirmation has been created for the phase so far.

Features

The following data is available for time ticket confirmations for phases in the standard system:

Process message category PI_PHCON
Message destination PI15
Process data request PH_CON for time ticket confirmations for phases from the PI sheet

The following sections describe what you must bear in mind when you create the process messages:

Primary Resource

If the phase was not carried out at the planned primary resource, you can confirm the resource that was actually used in the process message. If you do not specify a resource in the process message, the system automatically confirms the planned resource.

Activities

You can enter up to six standard values in a phase. The number and meaning of the standard values depends on the standard value key assigned to the primary resource. In the process message, you can confirm the actual activity performed for each standard value entered for a phase. The characteristics for the activity confirmation are numbered in the same order in which the system displays the standard values and activities in the process order.

Indicator: Remaining Work for Activity

You use this indicator to specify if you expect further confirmations for the activity in question.

Yield and Scrap Quantity

In addition to activity confirmation, you can confirm the yield produced for the phase and the scrap quantity incurred, provided that scrap management is active for the order type.

Confirmation Text

In the short text, you can, for example, describe the reason for the variance.

Posting Date

If you do not want to post the confirmed quantities for the current date, you can enter any other date within an allowed posting period (backdating and postdating permitted). If you do not specify a posting date in the message, the system posts the confirmation on the date when the message was created (Event date characteristic).

Status for Activity Confirmation

The status shows whether phase processing has been completed.

The following table provides an overview of possible confirmation statuses:

Confirmation Status	Meaning
Partial finish	Partial confirmation. Processing of the phase has not yet been completed but the activity performed so far is to be determined.
Finish	Final confirmation. Processing of the phase has been completed.

Consistency Checks

When processing the messages, the system checks whether the values they contain are valid and consistent with one another. If an inconsistency (for example, an invalid order number) is discovered:

The system writes a corresponding system message to the message log
The system sets the process message status Destination error or Sent with warning

Subsequent Processing

All further processing of the data confirmed is carried out according to the general logic of the order confirmation function.

Confirmation Number

The system assigns a unique number to each confirmation. The number is recorded in the message log.