Make-to-Order Using Assembly Processing  

When you create a sales order for a material which has been assigned a strategy group for assembly processing, an assembly order is created automatically in the background and assembly processing is initiated. The assembly order is a generic term used to group the documents used in assembly processing. Depending on the strategy group of the material for which you are creating the sales order, the following assembly orders can be created:

In assembly processing, you can make use of the functionality of both the sales order and the corresponding procurement element. For example, both the sales order and the assembly order are scheduled in one run during sales order entry. This provides you with precise delivery dates and quantities at this early stage. As the sales order and the assembly order are directly linked to one other, any subsequent changes you make to dates and quantities in one of the documents are reflected automatically in the other.

An assembly order is only created if the schedule line category in the sales order is defined to pass on requirements. Thus, you can activate and deactivate the function which creates an assembly order in the schedule line category.

You can also perform assembly processing with pre-sales documents (inquiries and quotations). Should you not wish an assembly order to be created at the pre-sales stage, adjust the order probability in the pre-sales document to 0% or use a schedule line category which is not set up for transfer of requirements and does not, therefore, initiate the creation of an assembly order.