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Work Centers: New Functions
Description
This release note describes new functions in Release 3.0 for work center
maintenance.
1. New input fields on the
Basic Data screen
On the Basic Data screen you can maintain the following new
fields:
- QDE system: In this field, you can enter an external
system that is used to exchange quality inspection data messages.
- WIP location: In this field, you can enter the WIP
location that is used for material provisioning and which can be found
directly in production. It is used both by KANBAN/JIT and the Warehouse
Management System (WMS). The WIP location is used for grouping work centers
according to provisioning points of view.
- Backflush indicator: You use this indicator to backflush
a material component required for an order operation that is carried out at
this work center. During backflush, the system automatically carries out
withdrawal posting when confirming the operation.
This indicator is only taken into account if you
determined in the material master record on the screen MRP 2 that the
decision on whether the material component is to be backflushed is made in the
work center. However, the indicator is only needed if the
Backflush indicator is not maintained in the routing, production
order or network. If the Backflush indicator is set in the
routing, production order or network, this specification is always
valid.
1. Default values for unit and
dimension of work
On the Default values screen in Release 3.0, you can maintain the
work dimension and work unit for internally processed operations as well as
units of measures for standard values. If these units are maintained, the
system copies them as default values to internal processing of the
operation.
1. New fields and indicators on
the Capacity Header screen
In Release 3.0 on the Capacity Header screen, you can enter the following
new keys and indicators used in capacity planning:
- Grouping: Number, specifying the shift sequence and shift
definition which can be used when you maintain the available capacity.
Grouping 51 through 99 are used for Logistics and groupings 1 through 50 are
used in Employee Management.
- Overload: Percentage rate specification by which the load
may exceed the available capacity. This specification is used for finite
scheduling. The system uses this to plan capacities.
- Can be used by several operations indicator: With this
indicator, you determine that the available capacity can be used by several
operations. This can be useful, for example, if the available capacity of a
person is to be used for several operations. By using this indicator, you can
also plan on a machine group level, for example.
If an operation is already taking up part of the
available capacity, other operations cannot access the remaining available
capacity if the indicator is not set.
- Long-term planning indicator: With this indicator, you
determine that a capacity is to be considered on the basis of a planned demand
program when determining material requirements and capacity within the new
"Long-term planning" application in Release 3.0.
- Relevant to finite scheduling indicator: With this
indicator, you determine that the availability and load of a capacity are
considered during finite scheduling.
1. Capacity
assignment
In Release 3.0, you can maintain assignments to capacities as well as
assignments to the work center. You can link a capacity with the following
objects:
To ensure a more detailed resource and occupancy
planning within capacity requirements planning, you can divide the capacities
into individual capacities (for example, individual machines) for which you
can maintain available capacities. You can assign requirements to these
individual capacities in the planning table (graphic or tabular form) and the
system can carry out scheduling for them.
You maintain the available capacity of an
individual capacity according to the capacity category in the work center
capacity or pooled capacity. You can only define an individual capacity for a
capacity category in the work center, that is, you create individual
capacities uniquely in the system.
If you want to create individual capacities for
a capacity, select the menu options Goto ->
Assignments -> Individual capacities on the
capacity header screen of the capacity. You reach the Assignments to
Individual Capacities screen where you can define any individual
capacities.
If you want to maintain the available capacity
of the individual capacity, position the cursor on the individual capacity and
select, for example, the function key Choose . You reach the
capacity header data screen of the individual capacity.
The Maintained indicator on the
Assignments to Individual Capacities screen after the respective
individual capacity shows that the available capacity for this individual
capacity has already been maintained.
If you have not maintained available capacity
for an individual capacity, the system calculates it from the capacity's
operating time.
You can assign people to the capacity where they
are intended to work. These people must be recorded in the Personnel Planning
and Development System (PD).
If you want to assign people to a capacity,
select the menu options Goto ->
Assignments -> People on the capacity header
screen for the capacity. You reach the screen Assignment to People .
Specify the respective people.
To ensure the correct personnel selection
according to qualification, you can assign qualification requirements to a
capacity. These requirements refer to qualifications and requirements profiles
which are created in the Personnel Planning and Development System (PD).
If you want to assign qualifications to a
capacity, select the menu options Goto ->
Assignments -> Qualifications on the capacity
header screen for the capacity. You reach the screen Assignments to
Qualifications. Enter the qualifications which must be fulfilled. In
addition, you can also control the selection for several specified
qualifications by entering required priorities, proficiencies and experience
in years.
When you assign a capacity to a position, the
system uses the qualifications specified for the position to select the
appropriate personnel.
You can specify one or more positions for a
capacity. If you want to assign a capacity to a position, select the menu
options Goto -> Assignments ->
Positions on the capacity header screen of the capacity. You
reach the screen Assignments to Positions. The system checks the
positions you entered with Personnel Planning and Development System
(PD).
The objects to which you can assign a capacity are dependent on the
capacity category. If you use the new indicator CapCatPers
for the work center in Customizing to determine that people can be assigned to
the capacity category, you can assign a capacity of this capacity category to
positions, people and qualifications. If the indicator is not set, the
assignment to individual capacities is possible.
1. Display and test
formula
On the Scheduling and Capacity Overview screens, you can
display formulas for calculating execution time or capacity requirements or
you can test them using different test entries.
If you want to display one of the specified formulas, position the cursor
on the desired formula and, on one of the two screens, select the menu options
Extras -> Formula ->
Display. You can also display a formula on the Scheduling
screen by clicking on the arrow key after the formula. In addition, you can
display a formula on the Capacity Overview screen by using the
function key Formula.
If you want to test the formulas that were entered on either the
Scheduling or Capacity Overview screens, select the menu options
Extras -> Formula ->
Test . You reach the dialog box Test Formula where you can
or must enter test data.
Enter general operation data (for example, the operation quantity),
standard values and default values for other types of internal processing,
such as standard duration and work). If you are using user-defined fields in
your formulas, you can also specify the key word ID and maintain the
user-defined fields. Press the function key Calculate . The
system displays the calculated results.
1. New menu option
Subsystem
For Release 3.0, you can enter the subsystem (external application) or
subsystems where the work center data is sent within plant data collection
(PDC).
If you want to enter a subsystem for a work center, select the menu options
Extras -> Subsystem link on the
Basic Data screen in the work center. You get the dialog box
Subsystem Grouping where you can enter one or more subsystems.
1. Work center field
selection
The field modification option was implemented in Customizing for work
centers so that you have an instrument with which you can influence the
characteristics of selected fields on individual screens. You can specify that
certain data fields are displayed as follows:
- as a required-entry field
You can maintain your specifications for each screen modification group
either from the view of modified fields or of an influencing field. Screen
modification groups are, for example:
The Work center category for field selection is provided
as an influencing field in the work center. You specify this in Customizing
when maintaining the work center category for the work center.
If you want to specify, for example, that only SAP1 is used as the standard
value key for work center category 0001, proceed as follows:
- Specify standard value key SAP1 in the default work center for work center
category 0001.
- Set the standard value key field in the field selection for work center
category 0001 to display.
If you want to copy the SAP default values for the field selection for work
center categories, proceed as follows:
Copy the default values for the field selection:
Proceed
1. New indicators in
Customizing
In Customizing for the work center, you can maintain the following new
indicators:
- To release indicator: When maintaining the usage of a
task list type, you can set this indicator to specify that an operation in the
order cannot be released or scheduled if a work center that is not defined for
production, such as a statistical work center, is assigned to the
operation.
When you release this kind of operation in the
order, you must change the work center.
- CapCatPers indicator: You use this indicator when
maintaining the capacity category to assign people, positions and
qualifications to this capacity category.
- No actual indicator: You use this indicator to determine
when maintaining the capacity category that no actual values or costs are
written in the operation when an individual capacity of this capacity category
is confirmed.
Change system parameters in customizing
To point 1):
Perform the following step in Customizing for
work centers:
Define WIP location
To point 3):
Perform the following step in Customizing for
work centers:
Define shift sequence
To point 4):
Perform the following step in Customizing for
work centers:
Define capacity category
To point 7):
Perform the following step in Customizing for
work centers:
Define field selection
To point 8):
Perform the following step in Customizing for
work centers:
Define usage
Define capacity category