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New Functions in the Production Order for Release 3.0

Description

The following functions have been introduced for Release 3.0:

Planned orders or production orders can be linked in a collective order. Stock movements are not carried out between production levels in a collective order. A receipt to stock is only carried out for the main order.
Further information on these functions can be found in the release note 'Collective Orders'
An assembly order can be created directly when creating a sales order. An assembly order can be a planned order, a production order or a network.
All the changes in quantity and dates in the sales order affect the assembly order.
The strategy group in the material master (1st MRP screen) controls
You can now enter by-products in production orders. Further information on by-product production can be found in the release note: 'By-Product Production in the Production Order'.
When creating a production order directly (ie. without planned order), the routing and the bill of material can be selected using a production version.
Batch splits can be carried out for materials that are maintained in batches (allocation of several batches to a material component). The batch determination is controlled using search criteria maintained in Customizing.
Further information on batch determination can be found in Customizing.
For materials held in stock, you can control that when the stock is used up, the requirements of the material are redirected to a follow-up material or a group of follow-up materials.
Further information on discontinued parts can be found in the release note: 'Discontinuation of a Material When Stock is Used up'.
Components which are allocated to phantom assemblies can be allocated to an operation in the routing. Allocation can be carried out over several BOM levels, if the phantom assembly itself contains phantom assemblies.
With the menu options Order -> Function -> Read master data , a new bill of material can also be copied into the production order.
It is now possible to reallocate phantom assemblies from one operation to another.
With the order information system, you can select objects that belong to a production order, such as material components, operations, sequences, and confirmations, and display them in list form.
Further information on this function can be found in the release note 'Order Information System'
A production order for a configurable material can be created directly (without planned order). In this case, configuration is carried out when creating the production order.
An allocation to the sales order can be carried out when creating a production order. Consequently, the production order is settled to the sales order.
A production order can be created without reference to a material.
When creating a production order, you can refer to
If a production order is used as a reference, you can also specify which objects (operations, production resources/tools, trigger points, components) are copied from the reference.
If a production order is released for a material which requires quality inspection in production, an inspection lot is created. The management of the inspection lot and inspection characteristics takes place in QM.
There is a Missing parts overview in the data of the current order, in which for example the requirement quantity, storage location, and plant can be changed.
There is also a Missing parts list which displays the missing parts from one or more orders (for collective orders).
You can divide up the capacity requirements of an operation into any number of capacity splits. You can allocate each capacity split to a person or a work center, depending on the capacity category. To do this, select an operation in the operation overview and choose the menu options Operation -> More -> Capacity splits
Via the menu options Goto -> Cap.req. planning -> capacity leveling , you can branch directly from order processing into the planning table of capacity requirements planning. The formatting of the planning table (graphic, tabular) and the data displayed is specified in an overall profile (capacity planning) and can be allocated to a production scheduler. Operations can be split, released and scheduled on the planning table.
Using trigger points, you can specify that changing a status in the operation automatically initiates one of the following functions.
You can also specify that a user can manually initiate one of these functions by confirming an operation (for example with rework)
Further information on these functions can be found in the release note 'Trigger Points / Standard Trigger Points / Trigger Point Groups'
A transfer requirement can be created automatically when releasing the order for components that are maintained by WM. Whether the creation of the transfer requirement is to be carried out automatically or manually is determined for each production scheduler. If errors occur when creating transfer requirements, an error log is created and the order is marked with the status 'Error in LVS allocation'.
In confirmation, the following new functions are delivered:
Further information on these functions can be found in the release note: 'Confirmation: Changes in 3.0'.

Further information on the new functions can be found in the manual PP - Production orders.