Additional Process Information 
Additional Process Information
Repetitive Manufacturing: Overview
A product that is manufactured using a special production line often remains unchanged over a long period. It is not manufactured in individual lots. Instead, a specific quantity is produced in a relatively constant frequency over a defined period.
A bill of material lists the components that are used to manufacture a product. In this example, you manufacture a PC component with product number C-1113. The product consists of four parts:
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R-1210 - Processor chip·
R-1220 - Memory, 8 MB·
R-1230 - BIOS·
R-1242 - Motherboard PCAA bill of material has already been created for the production of C-1113. The component has been defined in the system as a finished product. When production is complete, the product is posted to a stock account for finished products.
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Displaying Bills of Material for information on how to display a bill of material .Next, a routing is created. This contains the operations required to produce the product. It contains milestones, or reporting points, that define at what stages confirmations are required. At these milestones, the parts are entered, or transferred to production. At the last milestone, the product is transferred from production to inventory. In this example, the routing has been defined as follows:
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First reporting point:- Consumption of materials R-1210, R-1230, and R-1242.
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Second recording point:- Consumption of material R-1220.
- Entering the units in the finished products inventory at the end of the production process.
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Displaying Routings for information on how to display routings.You then create a run schedule header that you use to manufacture the product. A run schedule header is a document used in repetitive manufacturing and identified by a run schedule header number. It is always created for one production version of a material and for a specific validity period. A run schedule header can therefore always be uniquely identified by the combination of the following data: Material, production version, and date within the validity period.
A run schedule header can be compared to a long-term production order, but is different in the following points:
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The validity period of the run schedule header is usually longer (for example, the product life cycle), and can be several years. In this example, you create a run schedule header that is restricted to one day, so that the process can be repeated daily.·
It does not contain any production quantities, or any dates (except the validity period). The quantities and dates are planned when you create run schedule quantities for the run schedule header. From a technical point of view, the run schedule quantities are saved as planned orders. The difference between standard planned orders and planned orders created from run schedule quantities is that the latter do not have to be released and then converted into production orders.·
When you create a run schedule header, a cost collector will be simultaneously created. This cost collector can then carry the production costs from the run schedule header and subsequent costs such as overhead, WIP, and variances. The production cost collector is created at material/plant/production process level. The production process is determined based on a Controlling level.