Shop Floor Master Data
This chapter provides information about shop floor master data. It helps you define shop floor master data and map shop floor infrastructure in SAP ME. You tell the system the details about what you manufacture on your shop floor. You use this information when you release a shop order to the floor to build a certain quantity of the product. When you release demand for a product to the shop floor, the system creates SFC numbers to represent each unit you want to track. As the floor produces these units, SFC numbers allow you to track them.
In the system, routings represent your manufacturing processes. Once an SFC number is released to the floor, it travels down a routing as production operators work on the unit.
Implementation Considerations
To define your shop floor master data, you must decide:
Which products you manufacture, which components you manufacture or purchase to build your products, and how you want to track them in the system (see Genealogy)
What information you want to collect about components (see Assembly Data Type)
Whether you use work centers to organize your shop floor (see Work Center)
Which resources you want to track, how you plan to group them, and what operations your production operators or machines perform at these resources (see Resource)
Which operations production operators need to perform on the SFC number (see Operation)
How you want to set up your routings (see Routing)
Whether to use scripting and how you plan to use it (see Routing Scripts with Nonconformance Codes)
Which certifications you want to use to define the level of expertise for an operator to perform work at an operation, resource, customer order, or a material (see Certification)
Where and when you want the system to execute hook point activities (see Hook Point Activity)
Which hook point activities you want the system to execute