This component can be used for production planning and control in a repetitive manufacturing environment.

You can use repetitive manufacturing as either make-to-stock REM or make-to-order REM such as in the automotive industry, for example.

The goals of repetitive manufacturing are the following:

• Creation and revision of production quantities on a period and quantity basis (reduction in individual lot and order-specific processing).

• Reduction in the production control effort and simpler backflushing tools(with the option of using the full scope of the PP functionality).

You can implement Repetitive Manufacturing if the following is true of your production process:

• You produce the same or similar products over a lengthy period of time.
• You do not manufacture in individually defined lots. Instead, a total quantity is produced over a certain period at a certain rate per part-period.
• Your products always follow the same sequence through the machines and work centers in production.
• Routings tend to be simple and do not vary much.

Within logistics, Demand Management precedes Repetitive Manufacturing:

• SD Sales Operations (receipt of sales orders)
• PP Demand Management (creation of planned independent requirements)
• PP MRP

The following Logistics components are also relevant:

• PP Work Centers
• PP Routings
• PP Bills of Materials
• If required, Line Design for mapping complex production lines

There is specific master data required for Repetitive Manufacturing. This includes the repetitive manufacturing profile and the product cost collector.

• Planning table

Within the framework of repetitive manufacturing, planning and control is carried out on the basis of time buckets. Starting from the existing requirements situation, you can plan production quantities based on periods. The scheduling data for products and product groups is thus broken down into a series of time buckets, the user being presented with period views for the purposes of checking and revision.

• Sequencing

You can use Sequencing to carry out takt-based scheduling which determines the sequence in which planned orders are produced on the production line. Sequencing simplifies the dispatching process, especially for high order volumes, and enables you to display them in a graphic.

• Pull list

You can use the pull list to control in-house material flow, supplying production with materials. The pull list checks the stock situation at the production line, calculates the missing parts for the components and triggers replenishment for these missing parts.

• Backflushing

Production completion confirmations are simplified and are made with reference to the material being produced. The completion confirmation usually includes the backflushing of components and the posting of production costs.

• Cost Object Controlling

In repetitive manufacturing, you ususally detemine costs per material or per production version via a product cost collector (product cost per period).