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 arrangement, 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 (Logistics
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Production - process
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Process order and then Environment
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Master data
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Maintain quotas).
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
Maintaining a Quota Arrangement
Determining the Source under a Quota Arrangement
Revision of Quota Arrangement
Monitoring Quota Arrangements
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:
- All valid production versions for the material, including those in which the material is used as a co-product in a BOM item
- 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.