Definition

You use the control cycle to define for your plant the production storage bin in which a certain material is to be staged for production and with which staging type, within a production supply area .

Use

Using the control cycle, you can support several types of material staging in the WM-PP interface. You define the type of material staging for each material in the material master using the Material Staging Indicator:

For pick parts, you can define one control cycle per production supply area for all materials. This control cycle is then valid for all of the materials in the production supply area, for which you have not defined an individual control cycle.

You execute manual staging without reference to a production order. The material is staged in the production storage bin that you have defined in the corresponding control cycle.

For manual staging, you can define one control cycle per production supply area for all materials. This control cycle is then valid for all the materials in the production supply area, for which you have not defined an individual control cycle.

Materials with this indicator cannot be staged via the WMS.

In additional, you clearly define in the control cycle the production storage bin , in which the particular material is to be staged. For this, you must have defined a WM-managed production supply area in the material master or in the BOM.

To create a control cycle, choose  Logistics Logistics Execution Master Data Warehouse Production Supply Control Cycle Production Supply Create in the SAP menu.

To display a control cycle, choose  Logistics Logistics Execution Information System Warehouse Production Supply List of Control Cycles in the SAP menu.