This component addresses the needs of discontinuous production in companies in process industries that manufacture sequences of identical production charges on their production lines. You can manage batch manufacturing using production campaigns.

The aims of campaign management are the following:

• Reduced costs achieved by grouping sequences of identical production charges and thus carrying out more efficient setup and clean-out processes which can be very costly
• Higher product quality in cases where the desired quality level is achieved gradually in the production process as opposed to immediately from the first batch
• More exact settlement resulting from clear distribution of campaign fixed costs (setup, clean-out, and teardown costs) to the orders involved

The main planning and execution functions of campaign management are:

• Campaign creation
• Campaign processing
• Campaign conversion

The main functions of campaign management for product cost controlling are:

• Settlement of the campaign fixed costs for the materials (using business processes)
• Preliminary costing of a production campaign
• Cost reports for a production campaign
• Cost reports for the business processes involved

If your system is not integrated with APO, you can only create single-product campaigns. Single-product campaigns may only comprise planned orders and process orders that are used for the production of the same material along with process orders that are not material-related (for example, for cleaning purposes). Only one material-related master recipe is allowed per campaign.