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Work centers: Changed functions

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This release note describes the functions that have changed in Release 3.0 for work center maintenance.

The meaning of the indicators Capacity planning and Scheduling in the control key that can be maintained on the Defaults screen and transferred into the task list has changed:

• Capacity requirements records are created only if you maintain the Capacity planning indicator.

• The Scheduling indicator only controls whether the operation is scheduled or whether sub-operation dates are to be assigned.

Please note the following for capacity planning and scheduling:

If you maintain the Capacity planning indicator in Customizing for work centers or routings, you should also maintain the Scheduling indicator.

Until now, you could maintain assignments of the following objects in the work center:

• Cost center

• Other work center

• Person: Here, you had to decide whether the assignment was a regular employee, a successor or a substitute.

• Qualification: Here, you had to decide whether the qualification is required or should be met.

• Position

• You could only maintain the assignments to another work center, to a person, to a qualification and to a position, if the indicator HR active was set in Customizing for work centers.

As of Release 3.0, the HR active indicator is replaced by the following keys:

• Logistics integration flag

• Integration plan variant

If you want to activate the integration of PD with Logistics, enter 'x' for the Logistics integration flag and enter the integration plan version that specifies the plan version from PD planning which you want to integrate with Logistics.

As of Release 3.0, you can maintain assignments to the following objects in the work center:

• Cost center

• Qualification

• Position

• Person

The data entered for assignments to qualifications, positions and people is checked against data from the PD System. Assignments that have already been maintained in releases prior to 3.0 that can no longer be maintained in Production Planning, for example. Data is still displayed in the PD when you maintain the work center and can be used in Production Planning.

You can maintain the assignments to the work center when you create or change a work center, for example, by selecting the menu options Goto -> Assignments and the object you want to assign.

Change system parameters in customizing

To point 1):

Define control key

To point 2):

Define control data