Assemble-to-order with Projects (SAP Library - Demand Management (PP-MP-DEM))

Assemble-to-order with Projects

Use networks and projects for assemble-to-order if you manufacture or engineer your products to order and you are not sure exactly how you are going to execute the sales order:

If your customer orders a product whose manufacturing or assembly process is so complex that you consider it a project. With networks, you can plan in the mid- to long-term, for example, when the actual assembly process does not start for another 6 months.

If your customer orders a customized or configured product that you are manufacturing or assembling for the first time. With a network, you have a flexible framework for rough-cut planning when you enter the sales order that you can add more detail to, and, if necessary, create production orders.

If your manufacturing or assembly process is characterized by technical or time interdependencies, such as, one activity cannot finish until the preceding activity has finished.

If you want to use the unique functionality of the Project System to carry out your projects, for example, you can create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a project at the same time that you create a sales order.

Note

You can still use planned orders and production orders if you choose to create a network from a sales order.

Account Assignment

In assemble-to-order with projects you can choose where the costs are collected: for example, in a work breakdown structure element (WBS element), in the sales order, or in the network.

Network is...	Account assignment is made to...	The standard WBS element from the standard network header...
header-assigned	sales order	is not copied into the network header
activity-assigned	project	is copied into the network header as a WBS element. If no standard WBS element has been entered in the standard network header, you have to specify a WBS element when you save.
header-assigned	project	is copied into the network header as a WBS element. If no standard WBS element has been entered in the standard network header, you have to specify a WBS element when you save.

Note

It is not possible to assign an network with activity account assignment to a sales order.