Archiving Production Orders (PP-SFC) (SAP Library - Production Planning and Control (PP))

Archiving Production Orders (PP-SFC)

Definition

The archiving object PP_ORDER is provided for archiving production orders in the Production Planning and Control (PP) component. The object contains all of the data on the production order, e.g.

Operations
Material components
Production resources/tools
Inspection characteristics and inspection characteristic values
Trigger points
Confirmations
Goods movements with errors
Texts

Use

You can use the archiving program to archive data that is no longer required. In this case, the data is written to archive files and, provided that it has been archived successfully, deleted from the system.

Only one archiving object is required to archive production orders. This is the archiving object PP_ORDER.

As a rule, the same job is used to create archive files and delete the data from the system. However, you can also carry out these steps separately (see Starting the Deletion Program (PP-SFC)).

When you call up the archive management function by choosing Tools ® Archiving ® Orders from the Production Control menu, the name of the archiving object PP_ORDER appears by default.

Selection Criteria

You can select the production orders to be archived according to the following criteria:

Order number
Order type
Plant
MRP controller
Production scheduler
Selection profile status (only when setting a deletion flag/indicator)
Exceeding of delivery date (only when setting a deletion flag/indicator)

Only those orders that fulfill the following conditions are archived:

They match the selection criteria.
The order type is ‘10’ (production order).
The deletion indicator is set.
The residence time 2 has expired.

The exceeding of the delivery date is set to 90 days as standard. This ensures that orders that have not been released yet, for example, are not selected.