Type 0: Definition of Message Creation 
Use
You can use process messages to report actual data from production control to the process order or other SAP components. Reporting actual data can trigger certain business transactions in the corresponding SAP component. This ensures that the data from production control is consistent with the data of different SAP components.
You can create process messages in any universal process instruction of type 0, irrespective of the functions it contains.
Prerequisites
You must create the process message category you want to use in Customizing for Process Management under Process Messages -> Define and Set up Process Message Categories .
Features
The standard SAP system contains a number of predefined process message destinations along with message categories.
In the section Integration Using Process Messages and its subsections you can find information about:
Which predefined message categories are contained in Customizing
Which business transactions may be triggered using these message categories
How these messages are processed
Activities
You can define one or more process messages in each universal process instruction, depending on whether it is a single or repeated data request.
You assign the following characteristic to the process instruction:
Characteristic |
Meaning |
Allowed Values |
PPPI_MESSAGE_CATEGORY |
Notification type |
Any message category |
Immediately after the characteristic PPPI_MESSAGE_CATEGORY, you must define at least all required characteristics of the message category.
Note
You can also flag a characteristic as mandatory independently of the process message. To do so, set the Entry Required indicator on the Basic Data tab page in characteristic maintenance.
If you want to generate several messages, you can assign a characteristic several times.
The system reports all message characteristics of the process instruction (i.e. including those that do not belong to the message category specified).