After a process order has been released, a periodic background job checks whether there are schedule deviations for operations or phases in process orders. If tolerances are exceeded or fallen short of, specific users are notified.

In Customizing for Process Orders (under Operations)

• Variants for deviation recording must be defined together with the corresponding data (selection criteria, tolerances, user to be informed)
• A background job for deviation recording must be planned (on the Step screen, enter program RCOCRDV2).

Only orders that were released after the creation (and planning) of the corresponding variants are taken into account in deviation recording.