Displaying Quantities Over Several Periods (SAP Library

Displaying Quantities Over Several Periods

Use

If you work with larger planned orders or run schedule quantities whose production time stretches over several periods, you can split the order quantities and display them in the planning table accordingly.

This is especially useful if, for example, you want to plan individual shifts and initially only wish to display distributed quantities, before you start the process of Distributing Planned Orders Over Shifts If you do not use the quantity distribution function, the system only displays the complete order quantity once on the order finish date.

Prerequisites

You must select the Production dates in the Scheduling tab page.

The quantity distribution is based on the scheduling results. Therefore, you must make sure that the parameters required for Scheduling in the Planning Table have already been maintained.

Features

You have the following options for displaying the quantities:

Display complete quantity on order finish date (order view)

Calculate number of periods and display the quantity distributed over these periods (distributed view)

As a combination of both - display the distributed quantities in a separate row and display the complete quantity on the order finish date (order view / distributed view)

The quantities display is completely independent of whether you choose to display capacity planning data or not. This means you can still choose to display the production quantities of a particular order distributed over the periods it requires in production if you do not work with capacity planning.

If you do work with capacity planning, the system does not take the current capacity load into account when distributing the production quantities. The system simply highlights overloads to draw your attention to them.

Activities

To distribute the order quantity, the system first schedules the planning operation to calculate how long it will take to produce this quantity. It then distributes the production quantity over the corresponding periods. The processing time is the basis for distributing shifts. The processing time is the amount of time for which the order quantity is processed at the scheduling work center (this is usually the production line). It does not take setup times into account. The system displays the processing times for the planned operations in the dialog box Detailed Data for Partial Orders.

If there is no setup or tear down time before or after processing, then the production time is the same as the processing time. In this case the system will only display production start and end dates.

The capacity load in the individual periods are not taken into account when distributing quantities.

The procedure is as follows:

The system uses the Production Line as the basis for scheduling (if no line hierarchy has been created for the production line) or the scheduling work center (if a line hierarchy has been created for the production line).

The system searches for the first operation in the routing with this production line or with this scheduling work center if a line hierarchy has been created for the production line.

The system calculates the capacity requirements using the standard values maintained in the operation and calculates the production start and finish date according to the scheduling strategy you selected. For example, in forward scheduling, is the start the beginning of the first shift of the day.

The system finally distributes the order quantity over the periods in which production takes place.