Material staging (SAP Library - Production Orders (PP-SFC))

Material Staging

Use

If you are using Warehouse Management, you can use this function to transport materials to production bin locations, that are grouped into supply areas.

One of the main advantages of this functionality, is that employees on the shop floor can request the material required in the production process. The system generates a transfer requirement in the Warehouse Management System. Warehouse management is then responsible for staging the required materials by creating a transfer order from the transfer requirement. This occurs in the normal WM processing.

Prerequisites

In order to use this functionality, you have to set up a WM / Production Planning interface.

Note

You can find a detailed description of the WM / PP interface in the document Warehouse Management Guide (MM) under Goods Issue for Production Supply

Features

Material staging offers you the following features:

You can simulate material staging.

You can execute material staging.

You can display the material staging results.

To use the staging function, an order has to at least be partially released, at least one operation has to have been released.

You can start material staging with WM integration in the following ways:

In the production order, choose Goto ® WM pick list. The system prompts you through the dialog steps.

In the production order, choose Order ® Functions ® Material staging ® Simulate or Proceed. The remaining processing steps are carried out in the background.

Material staging is automatically triggered during order release. You specify in Customizing, whether the function is carried out automatically, or whether it is triggered manually.

Note

In Customizing (production scheduling profile), you can choose the following options for creating transfer requirements:

You can activate automatic staging. The interface must be set up.

You can specify that only complete transfer requirements are to be created per operation. This means that for a released operation there must be a transport requirement for every component.

You can specify that the committed quantity is taken into account for staging.