Creating and Releasing Process Orders 

Use

From the current stock/requirements list, the system converts the planned orders into process orders. You then carry out additional transactions in the process order, such as order approval, batch determination, release, and control recipe creation. First, you make a number of settings for the new user interface.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    From the MRP node, choose Evaluations ® Stock/Requirements List

    Transaction Code

    MD04

  2. Enter the following data:
    3.

    Field

    Data

    Material

    N-2000

    Plant

    1100

  3. Choose .
  4. Choose Show overview tree.

    5. The worklist tree is displayed. It contains all the materials that you have maintained in the corresponding transaction or all the materials that you have selected in the collective display.

  5. To switch to the order tree, choose .
  6. To confirm any information messages, choose .

    7. Now select a navigation profile.

  7. Choose Environment ® Navigation profile ® Assign.
  8. Enter the following data:
    9.

    Field

    Data

    Navigation profile

    Z_IDES_01

  9. Choose .

    10. With the Z_IDES navigation profile, for example, you can execute separate transaction calls for the transactions. You can, for example, navigate to the MRP list or the master recipe.

  10. In the overview tree, double-click material N-2100.
  11. Choose for the first planned order (PlOrd.).
  12. In the dialog box, choose --> Proc. order.
  13. To confirm the message, choose .

    14. The system creates a process order.

    The Create Process Order: Header – General Data screen appears.

  14. Choose .

    15. The order has the status APNG (Approval not granted). You can specify that changing and creating master recipes is subject to a detailed, company-specific approval procedure. When releasing the procedure, the system marks the edited recipe as an approved recipe. In Customizing, you can specify that a process order can only be created when it is based on an approved recipe. After the process order has been created, you can only change the planning data in the process order. You can specify that a user needs a special authorization to be able change further data.

    Our master recipe has not been approved so that the user can still change it. You will then perform an individual approval in the order. You can use a user status to restrict an individual approval to certain persons with a special authorization. In our order type, the recipe must be approved before the process order can be released. Once it has been approved, you can no longer change operations, phases, or materials.

  15. Choose .

    16. You approve the process order manually.

  16. Choose Process order ® Functions ® Approval ® Individual approval.

    17. Note the system status field. The order now has the status APG (Approval granted) and APGS (Single approval granted).

  17. Choose the Goods recpt tab. You can now create the batch that is to be produced with this order.
  18. Enter the following data:
    19.

    Field

    Data

    Batch

    175-N-2100

  19. Choose .

    20. If this batch master record does not yet exist, the Batch Handling dialog box appears. Choose Yes.

  20. Choose Materials.
  21. On the Create Process Order: Material List screen, enter batch number N-2110-1 in the Batch field for material N-2110.
  22. To release the process order, choose .

    23. To skip any information messages, choose .

    The system now checks the material availability for each material. At the same time, it performs an automatic batch determination for the components N-2120, N-2130, N-2140.
    The process order was released and the control recipe was generated. This is controlled by a production scheduling profile that also determined the process order type PI04 during planned order conversion. The profile is defined in the material master in the Work Scheduling view.
    Furthermore, the system created an inspection lot.

  23. Choose .
  24. Choose .

    25. You can now check whether the planned order has been converted into a process order.

  25. In the overview tree, double-click material N-2000.
  26. Create the process order for the finished product N-2000.
  27. Choose for the first planned order (PlOrd.).
  28. Choose --> Proc. order.

    29. To skip any information messages, choose .

    The system creates a process order.

  29. On the Create Process Order: Header screen, choose Process order ® Functions ® Approval ® Individual approval.
  30. Choose the Goods recpt tab. You can now create the batch that is to be produced with this order.
  31. Enter the following data:
    32.

    Field

    Data

    Batch

    175-N-2000

  32. Choose .

    33. If this batch master record does not yet exist, the Batch Handling dialog box appears. Choose Yes.

  33. Choose Materials.
  34. On the Create Process Order: Material List screen, enter batch number 175-N-2100 in the Batch field for component N-2100.
  35. To release the process order, choose .

    36. To skip any warning messages, choose .

  36. Choose .
  37. Choose .
  38. You can now check whether the planned order has been converted into a process order.
  39. Choose until the overview tree appears.