Production Line 

Definition

A production line is used as a work center in planning in flow and repetitive manufacturing. It can either be a grouping of several processing stations or an individual processing station.

Integration

If you want to split a production line into individual elements (for example, processing stations) to improve the material flow and scheduling, you define a line hierarchy. Here, you define a production line as the header of the line hierarchy and you assign lower-level production lines or processing stations to the header as elements. For this, you must have created the production line and its processing stations as separate work centers with the appropriate work center categories. In the SAP standard system, a series of work center categories are predefined as examples. However, you can also create your own descriptions depending on your company’s specific production structure (for example, line segment, station, zone).

If you do not want to split a production line, you can simply create the production line as a work center with the appropriate work center category.

You must have entered the production line in the production version.