Purpose
You stage material you need for production at a certain time, in a particular quantity, and in a particular production storage bin, via the WM-PP interface.
Prerequisites
The
WM-PP interface is active.For
automatic material staging, you must define a production scheduling profile in the Customizing for Warehouse Management under Interfaces ® Define Production ® Define Control Data ® Production View.Process Flow
To display a production order, choose Logistics ® Production ® Production Control ® Order ® Display from the SAP menu.
The component overview shows all of the components needed for the production order.
Menu Path from the Production Order Display screen |
Result |
Goto ® WM pick list |
The system displays:
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Functions ® WM material staging ® Proceed |
The system executes material staging in the background, if you have released the production order first. To display processing errors, choose Goto ® Logs ® WM material staging in transaction Production Order Change. |
You can also create transfer requirements for material staging manually.
Transfer requirements for material staging have requirement type P, and the requirement number is equivalent to the number of the production order, for which the TR was created. For transfer requirements for crate parts or release order parts, the requirement number corresponds to the number of the assigned production supply area.
To display a TR for material staging, choose Logistics ® Logistics Execution ® Internal Whse Processes ® Transfer Requirement ® Display ® By Requirement.
You can also let the system create transfer orders (TOs) automatically. This means that the system automatically creates a TO for the material staging TR in the background. For more information, see Automatic Creation of TOs for Transfer Requirement.
There are two ways of posting the goods issue for the material consumption.
GI posting for material consumption |
What You Should Know |
Backflushing with confirmation of the production order |
With this kind of stock removal, the components are already at the production location. These are physically used up during the production process, but the consumption is not posted until the consumption quantity is known, that is to say after the order has been confirmed. You do not need to enter any goods movements in Inventory Management for these components. The production storage bin of the materials consumed is defined in the production order. The system reduces the material quantity in the production storage bin without creating a TR or a TO. |
Manually in Inventory Management |
After final assembly has been completed, you have to adjust the stock levels in Inventory Management and the Warehouse Management system to correspond to the current stock situation, and to reduce material consumption. Enter the production order number during GI posting. |
If the WM-PP interface is not active, or if the production order or reservation was incorrectly updated due to a previous error, the system posts a the goods issue for the material consumption to a general interface, based on the source movement type 261 (in the standard system). In doing so, the system creates a transfer order.
Taking Into Account Changes in the Production Order
During material staging via the WM-PP interface, the system takes the following changes into account:
The system cancels, for example, all superfluous transfer requirements (TRs) for pick parts, or triggers a follow-on request for missing quantities via a new TR.