Example I of the Process Flow for Machinery  

  1. You enter the change number when maintaining the material BOM for the product so that changes are taken into account with the help of engineering change management.
  2. You create the production lot and enter the planned independent requirement for the product with the change number (in this example, the quantity of the production lot is 3-5).
  3. You carry out a cost estimate for the production lot.
  4. Material requirements planning is carried out using material BOMs.
  5. One of the lower level assemblies is to be planned with a different production lot number. The procurement is therefore not planned based on the dependent requirement but rather on the planned independent requirements that have been created for the production lot of the assembly.
  6. The lower level assembly and the components are issued to production. The production lot then has the work-in-process status.
  7. A sales order is received. Once you have entered the sales order with the production lot number, the system creates a network for the assembly processing.
  8. The network involves activities such as:

    A Customer-specific design

    B Customer-specific part fabrication

    C Attachment of customer-specific parts to the product

    D Installment at customer location and

    E Inspection at customer location

  9. Activity confirmations are entered to the design activities.
  10. The network operation creates a network reservation for the specific production lot of the product.
  11. The goods receipt of the assembly is posted to the individual project stock of the production lot. The assembly is then directly issued to the network activity of the sales order. The price for this product is determined by the cost estimate for the production lot.