Defining Processing Profiles (SAP Library

Defining Processing Profiles

Use

If a production line has been divided into buffered sections using sort buffers, the sequence of the planned orders can be changed when scheduling in Sequencing. You can also assign a processing profile to each buffered section. The processing profile defines how the system determines the sequence of orders in a sort buffer (for example, FIFO). This enables you, for example, to use an external optimization procedure to plan sequences for the paint shop by setup time family, while for assembly you plan sequences based on an even capacity load utilization at processing stations.

If you have not inserted any sort buffers, you can enter a processing profile for the line hierarchy header.

Integration

Each profile that you defined in Customizing for Sequencing can be entered in the line hierarchy. These entries overwrite the processing profile assigned to the plant in Customizing for Sequencing. You can access the line hierarchy from Sequencing and change the processing profile of a buffered section.

Since the sequence of orders can be changed in a buffer, Sequencing creates a schedule record for each buffered section when scheduling.

Changes in the sequence of planned orders in a sort buffer can cause a considerable increase in the lead time of an order. The planned orders must wait in the sort buffer until the first planned order in the new sequence comes into the sort buffer.

Prerequisites

You must have defined at least one sort buffer in the hierarchy level directly underneath the line hierarchy header.

Actions

Select the first line segment in the first level of the hierarchy, or the first line segment of a buffered section, and select the menu path Line segment ® Processing profile.

This gives you the dialog box Processing profile.

Enter a processing profile.

Choose Copy.