Creating Process Orders With Material & Master Recipe 

  1. Choose Logistics ® Production - process ® Process order and then Process order ® Create ® With material.

    2. The Create Process Order: Initial Screen appears.

  2. Enter the following data:

    3. – The material number of the material in your master recipe;
     Automatic batch creation can be carried out for the material you want to produce.

    – The plant in which the material is to be produced (production plant)

    – The plant in which the goods receipt takes place for the material produced (planning plant). You must only make an entry here if the planning plant is different to the production plant.

    – The process order type (this controls, for example, whether an internal or external number range is to be used)
    If you enter an order type that requires internal number assignment, the system automatically assigns a number when you save the process order.

    – If you have selected an order type that requires external number assignment, you must also enter an order number in the Process order field.

  3. Choose Continue.

    4. The Create Process Order: Header - General Data screen appears.

  4. Enter the following data:

    5. – Total qty: Here, you specify the quantity you want to produce. The unit of measure you specified in the material master record is used. If you want to base your process order on a master recipe, make sure that the total quantity you enter in this screen is within the material quantity range specified in your master recipe. Otherwise, the system cannot find the specific recipe you want to use.

    If you have predefined a fixed lot size in the material master record of the material you want to produce (MRP1 screen), the system proposes the lot size in this field.

    – Order start date or Order finish date: Depending on the scheduling type, you must specify either the order start date or the order finish date, or both.

    For example:

    If you want to schedule forwards, specify the order start date.
    If you want to schedule backwards, enter the order finish date.
    If you do not want to schedule your order, specify both the order start date and the order finish date.

    Process orders are generally scheduled backwards.

    – Scheduling Type: Here, you enter a key that specifies how the order is to be scheduled. The system proposes the value that has been defined in the scheduling parameters for the selected order type in Customizing.

    – SchedMargin key OR
    Float before production    , Float after production and Release period
    The floats before and after production and the release period are specified via the scheduling margin key:

    If you specify a scheduling margin key, the system fills these fields automatically.
    If you do not specify a scheduling margin key, you can enter a float before production, a float after production, and the release period with the corresponding number of days.

    – Priority: You can allocate a level of priority to the order. However, this field is only used for information purposes and does not influence processing of the order.

  5. If you have only created one production version for the material you want to produce, choose Continue.
    If the validity period and the lot-size range of the production version match those of the allocated master recipe and alternative BOM, the data is copied from the master recipe to the process order.

    6. If you have created more than one production versions, there are several different ways to choose a production version (see Production Version Selection).

  6. If necessary, also enter a long text by choosing . Save the text and choose Back.
  7. Choose Operations.

    8. The operation overview appears.

  8. If you do not want to change the data that was copied from the master recipe or the bill of material, save the process order now.

For information on how to change the data now or later, see Changing Operation/Phase Data.