Production Version Selection

Use

When you create an order, you select a Production Version to determine a suitable recipe along with the corresponding material list. Which production version is used, can be controlled in different settings.

If you create a process order without a production version, the system does not copy the formulas for material quantity calculation.

Prerequisites

Suitable production versions have been created in the master recipe or material master record (see Maintaining Production Versions ).

Features

You can specify that the production version is selected:

  • Automatically or manually

  • Depending on a quota arrangement

Activities

You control production version selection as follows:

Automatic/Manual Selection

In Customizing for Process Orders (section Define order-type dependent parameters , Production version field), you determine whether the production version is selected automatically or manually .

As a prerequisite, the following settings must have been made for selecting alternative BOMs (material master, MRP4 view, Selection method field):

  • Selection by production version

    In this case, the system uses the alternative BOM that is defined in the valid production version. The lot-size range and the validity period of the production version apply.

  • Selection only by production version

    In this case, the system uses the alternative BOM that is defined in the valid production version. The lot-size range and the validity period of the production version apply. If no production version is found, the system cannot create a production order or a process order.

Selection According to Quota Arrangement

To (automatically) select a production version depending on a quota arrangemen t, you:

  • Maintain the data on the quota arrangement in Customizing for Process Orders (section Operations , Quota Arrangement ): number range, quota arrangement usage

  • Enter a quota arrangement usage in the material master record of the material you want to produce that includes production or process orders ( MRP2 view, Quota arr. usage field) and choose Selection only by production version as the selection method ( MRP4 view, Selection method field)

  • Maintain the quota arrangement for the material ( Start of the navigation path Logistics Next navigation step Production - process Next navigation step Process order End of the navigation path and then Start of the navigation path Environment Next navigation step Master data Next navigation step Maintain quotas). End of the navigation path

Enter the following data:

  • E (internal procurement) as the procurement type (column P )

  • E (in-house production) as the special procurement type (column S )

  • The production version. Make sure that it is also valid for the quota arrangement period. If you use possible entries help to select the production version, make sure to delete the value entered in the PPI field (plant from which the material is procured) afterwards.

  • The quota for the usage of this production version

  • If required, a maximum quantity: the production version is not used once this quantity has been reached

  • If required, a priority: the system only uses the production version for which the lowest value not equal to zero has been specified (highest priority = 1). If you also entered a maximum quantity, the system uses the production version with the next priority once this quantity has been reached.

For more information about quota arrangements, see

Co-Products: Special Features

When you create a process order, the system selects the following production versions in the sequence specified below, provided that the quota arrangement does not define the sequence:

  1. All valid production versions for the material, including those in which the material is used as a co-product in a BOM item

  2. If the Co-product indicator has been set for the material in the material master, all valid production versions for other materials whose BOM contains the co-product as a BOM item.

However, these production versions cannot automatically be copied to the process order.

They are not taken into account in material requirements planning, product costing, and repetitive manufacturing.