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Collective Orders
Description
You now have the option of linking planned orders or production orders
using a collective order.
A collective order has the following functionality:
- Integrated view of a production process
A collective order allows you to depict an
integral production process as one structure in the system.
- Separate order number for every order
Each level of a collective orer contains
separate production orders / planned orders. Each production order /planned
order has its own order number. This means that you can decide whether to
access the entire collective order, a sub-tree of the order structure, or a
single order.
- No stock movements between production levels
Within a collective order, a stock receipt is
only carried out for the material of the main order (i.e. for the order found
on the upper manufacturing level)
- Business functions carried out simultanesouly on several
orders
By releasing an order which is part of a
collective order, for ex., you can automatically cause the release of all the
orders that are hierarchically subordinated.
- Automatic update of dependent orders
Changes in an order (for example, change to an
order quantity) affect all dependent orders as soon as the order is
saved.
Further notes
Collective orders have the following restrictions:
- All orders in a collective order must have the same order type.
- Only order types with internal number assignment may be used for
collective orders.
Further information on collective orders can be found in the manual 'PP -
Production Orders'.