Automatic Process Instruction Creation (SAP Library

Automatic Process Instruction Creation

Use

You use this function to create process instructions if:

The process instructions are required in all control recipes for a control recipe destination

Process-specific data can be copied automatically to the generated process instructions

In control recipes for a specific destination, you want to transfer information on the allocated material components for each phase. The material components are defined in the material list of the process order. For this reason, the system can generate the corresponding process instructions and automatically enter the individual material data.

Prerequisites

The following settings have been made in Customizing for Process Management:

An appropriate value assignment function or table field has been allocated to those process instruction characteristics whose value is to be assigned automatically when the control recipe is created.

Process instruction categories have been allocated to your control recipe destinations and process instructions are generated for them when you create the control recipe. In addition, the following information is also maintained for each process instruction category you allocated:

The position at which the process instructions are inserted (for example, at the beginning or end of the control recipe, operations, or phases)
The scope of generation to be used for the process instructions (for example, one process instruction per phase, reservation item, or inspection characteristic)

Features

You can generate the process instructions defined in the control recipe destination as follows:

When creating a control recipe

In this case, the system triggers process instruction generation automatically.
It inserts the generated process instructions at the corresponding positions in the process order and control recipe.

You can only create the control recipe if a value has already been assigned to the process instruction characteristics in Customizing or if the value is assigned automatically. Otherwise, the process instructions are only copied to the process order where you must assign the missing values manually.

For information on automatic characteristic value assignment, see Process Instructions: Automatic Characteristic Value Assignment.

When maintaining the characteristic overview in the process order

If you want to check and, if necessary, change the generated process instructions before you create the control recipe, you can manually start process instruction generation in the process order. The system inserts the generated process instructions in the process order where you can maintain them as follows:

You can assign values to characteristics or change characteristic values.
You can delete individual process instructions.

The system does not generates the process instructions again when you create the control recipe unless you have deleted all generated process instruction.

The following numbers are assigned to generated process instructions:

0000 if they are inserted at the beginning of a phase

9999 if they are inserted at the end of a phase