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Routings: New Functions

Description

This release note describes functions for routing maintenance that are new in Release 3.0.

1. Sales order reference routing

You can assign routings and rate routings to the individual materials of a sales order.

You can enter a sales document and the corresponding item number on the task list maintenance initial screen for a routing or rate routing that you have created for a material. By entering this data, you specify the routing for this sales document which should be used during make-to-order production.

If you assigned a sales document to a material BOM, you can only allocate material components to this bill of material in a routing if the sales document was also assigned to the routing for this material.

1. Multi-level BOM component allocation

During BOM component allocation in the routing, both the components which belong to phantom assemblies and individual BOM components are displayed in Release 3.0.

You can allocate both an individual component and an entire phantom assembly to an operation in the routing.

If you only allocated one or some components of a phantom assembly to an operation, all of the components which you did not allocate are automatically allocated to the first operation in the production order.

1. Planning work center

On the Header details screen in the routing, you can enter a planning work center which is considered the critical work center when evaluating the capacity loads using planned orders.

1. Storing old task list number

On the Header details screen, you can store the task list number of the routing, which is replaced by the routing currently being maintained, in the "existing system".

1. Reassigning sub-operations

In Release 3.0, you can reassign sub-operations from one operation to another one. To do this, you overwrite the old operation number, which is before the sub-operation, with the new operation number on the Operation overview screen. After you press ENTER, the system displays the new assignment.

This function is only available for task lists for which operation and sub-operation can be maintained on one overview. Therefore you can not use this function for standard networks, for example.

1. Search function on the operation overview

If you have maintained many operations but only want to view or maintain operations which meet certain criteria, you can use a search function from the menu option Edit in the operation overview. You can search operations according to the following fields:

You can search both forward and backward. The individual search terms are linked with a logical OR.

When you use the Find function, you can locate the next (or previous) entry that meets the search criteria. When you use the Find next function, you can locate the next (or previous) entry for the search criteria you specified before the search.

1. Operation classification for configuration

In Release 3.0 configuration, when you create an order, you can replace work centers assigned to operations or sub-operations by another work center of the same class, if needed. This requires the classification of work centers and the valuation of characteristics. The valuation of characteristics for work center search is copied from the superior object (for example, the sales order) within configuration.

When you create an order, you select the work center suitable for the replacement within configuration according to its characteristic value assignment.

If you want to maintain the class and the class type of a work center within configuration select the menu options Extras -> Object dependency -> Assign class, for example, on the Operation details screen. Enter the class from which the relevant work center for the operation or suboperation is to be chosen.

In Release 3.0, you can maintain object dependency for the configuration directly from the operation overview.

When classifying work centers of a class, you should make sure that the same standard value key is assigned to all work centers of a class.

1. Specifying qualifications for work center selection

You can assign a requirements profile, a location or a position to one or several operations in the routing. Your entries are checked against the Personnel Planning and Development System (PD). They are used to determine the qualifications an employee must meet to work at this operation.

If you want to maintain a requirements profile, location or position for an operation, select the operation on the Operation overview screen and select the menu options Details -> Operation. Maintain the capacity category according to your entry under Required qualification .

If you want to display capacity categories for the work center in the operation, you can do this by selecting the menu option Environment -> Operation -> Work center.

1. Trigger point analysis

You can assign a trigger point, a standard trigger point and trigger point groups to an operation in the routing which can be used for the production order to determine

If you want to assign a trigger point to an operation in the routing, select the operation in question on the Operation Overview screen and choose the menu options Goto -> Trigger point overview.

Please refer to the release note Trigger Points / Standard Trigger Points / Trigger Point Groups or to the Production Orders manual for more information on trigger points.

1. New fields in the routing for quality management

In Release 3.0, new functions have been developed for quality management in routings. You can, for example, define inspection points for production on an operational level as well as a dynamic modification on a characteristic level.

Please refer to the Release notes for quality management for more information on the new functions.

1. Log for task list selection

As of Release 3.0, when you create a production order, a log is created on which the system displays information in the form of messages so that you can determine which selection criteria is checked during task list selection. If no task list corresponding to the selection criteria is found when you create an order, you can solve the problem by using the log.

1. Change number maintenance
If you move the Valid from date of a change number for a task list object so that it passes the date of another change number, the system displays a warning in Release 3.0.
If you try to move the Valid from date so that it passes the Valid from date of a change number when an object is deleted, you need a special authorization.
Please refer to the Engineering Change Management manual for more information on date shift.
If a date shift for a change number is made for a checked task list, the system removes the internal indicator in the task list header which tells it that a consistency check was already carried out for the task list. The system checks the task list again when you save.
In Release 3.0, you can shift the Valid from date for individual objects of a group with a change number. You do this within Engineering Change Management.
2. Scheduling mass function and updating the material master

In Release 3.0, the mass function for scheduling and updating the material master is active. You use this function to select a larger number of task lists corresponding to material master for scheduling and copy the scheduling results onto the material master.The material master records are selected using the following criteria:

You can select task lists to be scheduled for material master records. The corresponding task lists are selected according to the following criteria:

Scheduling results can be directly copied into the material master or stored in an intermediate file. By using the Save immediately indicator, you specify that the scheduling results are saved automatically without further query. You use the Update MatMaster immed. indicator to determine whether the scheduling results are saved in the planning file or copied directly into the material master.

If you want to execute the mass function for copying scheduling results into the material master, select the menu options Extras -> MatMaster -> Schedule MatMaster on the initial screen for routing maintenance.

If you want to copy data records from the planning file into the material master, select the menu options Extras -> MatMaster -> Update MatMaster on the initial screen for routing maintenance.

1. Customer field modification control

The field modification option was implemented in Customizing for routings so that you have an instrument with which you can influence the characteristics of selected fields on individual screens. You can specify that certain data fields are displayed as follows:

You determine the nature of the mofifiable field taking the influencing field into account. These can be fields on the initial screen, headers, subsequent screens and operation screens for each screen modification group.

Some screen modification groups are:

The task list type, for example, is defined as an influencing field in the routing.

1. New task list specific data in Customizing

For Release 3.0A, in Customizing for routings, you can define the following task list specific data when maintaining control data under maintain task list types:

Change system parameters in customizing

To point 14):

Perform the following function in Customizing for routings:

Define field selection

To point 15):

Perform the following function in Customizing for routings:

Maintain task list types