Progress confirmation (SAP Library - Production Orders (PP-SFC))

Progress confirmation

Use

The milestone confirmation is a form of confirmation, in which the confirmation of one operation causes preceding operations or sub-operations to be automatically confirmed at the same time. When you carry out a progress confirmation, you report the progress of the order by confirming the operation that you have reached (for example at the end of the day).

As opposed to milestone operations, you do not have to make any settings in the control key for operations that are to be confirmed with progress confirmation. You can select each confirmable operation.

If the operation has the relevant indicator in the control key, one speaks of Milestones rather than progress confirmation.

Caution

As opposed to other types of confirmation, progress confirmation requires you to enter the total quantity that has been produced, rather than the quantity that has been produced since the last confirmation. This means that the quantity that you enter in a progress confirmation is different from that of other types of confirmation, if you carry out confirmations for partial quantities.

Example

You produce 10 pieces of a material in total. You want to enter the confirmations in two steps, each time after 5 pieces have been produced.

If you use a time ticket confirmation, you enter 5 pieces per confirmation.
If you use progress confirmation, you enter 5 pieces for the first confirmation and 10 pieces for the second confirmation (= the total quantity).

Integration

You can combine progress confirmation with the other forms of confirmation. You should note the following:

Operations which have been confirmed directly or automatically with a milestone confirmation, are not affected by a progress confirmation.

Example

Operation 30 is marked in its control key as a milestone operation. You partially confirm operation 30 with a quantity of 50 pieces. Operations 10 and 20 are likewise partially confirmed with a quantity of 50 pieces. Then you enter a progress confirmation for operation 50 with a quantity of 100 pieces, which means that operation 50 is finally confirmed. Operation 40 is also finally confirmed with 100 pieces, whereas the confirmation data for operations 10 to 30 is not changed. To finally confirm these operations, you must make a confirmation for operation 30 with a total quantity of 100 pieces.

If no confirmations are yet available for a milestone, the system does not allow you to enter a progress confirmation for an operation following on from the milestone. The milestone has to be at least partially confirmed.

Example

Operation 30 is marked in its control key as a milestone operation. You want to enter a progress confirmation for operation 40 for a quantity of 50 pieces. The system does not allow you to create a progress confirmation for operation 40 until you confirm operation 30.

Operations that have been confirmed manually are not affected by a progress confirmation.

Example

You partially confirm operation 10 manually with a quantity of 50 pieces. You then confirm operation 30 with a progress confirmation with a quantity of 100 pieces. (This is a final confirmation). Operation 10 is still partially confirmed with a quantity of 50 pieces; operations 20 and 30 however are finally confirmed with quantities of 100 pieces.

Operations that have been confirmed via a summary confirmation or a standard confirmation, are not affected by a progress confirmation, that is, they are treated like manually confirmed operations.

Features

A progress confirmation is entered at operation level. When you enter a progress confirmation, all preceding operations are confirmed. The quantities for the automatically confirmed operations are determined automatically.

Example

You enter a progress confirmation for operation 30 for a quantity of 100 pieces. The preceding operations 10 and 20 are are automatically confirmed also with quantities of 100 pieces.

If progress confirmations already exist for a preceding operation, the quantity to confirm is determined by expanding to the total confirmed quantity of the operation.

Example

You have confirmed operation 30 with 40 pieces using a progress confirmation. You enter a progress confirmation of 90 pieces for operation 40. The system automatically produces a confirmation for operation 30 for the additional quantity of 50 pieces (=90 pieces - 40 pieces).

Note the following points regarding progress confirmation:

You do not need to keep to the processing sequence when using progress confirmations.

Example

You want to enter a progress confirmation for operations 30 and 50. You first enter a partial confirmation of 50 pieces for operation 50. All operations preceding operation 50 are automatically partially confirmed. You then enter a partial confirmation of 50 pieces for operation 30. Operation 30 remains confirmed with a quantity of 50, since the same progress level had already been recorded through in the first confirmation.

You can define whether the planned scrap percentage rate is incorporated in the quantity calculation for automatically generated confirmations. You make this setting in Customizing for Shop Floor Control by choosing Operations ® Confirmation ® Define Confirmation Parameters (Generated confirmations without quantity adjustments, Generally Valid Settings tab page):

If the indicator is not set, the planned scrap percentage rate is used for the quantity calculation. The yield and the scrap are both displayed.
If the indicator is set, then the scrap is posted as yield in the automatically confirmed operations. The confirmed total quantity is identical in the milestone confirmation and in the automatically generated confirmations.

If a progress confirmation is entered, all preceding sub-operations are also automatically confirmed. Sub-operations of the operation for which the progress confirmation is entered, always have to be confirmed manually.

Example

Operations 10 and 20 each have a sub-operation. You confirm operation 20 with 50 pieces using a progress confirmation. The system automatically confirms operation 10 with the same quantity and its suboperation with its corresponding activities. You must confirm the sub-operations for operation 20 manually.

If you enter a progress confirmation for an operation, it receives the status MILE (Milestone confirmation) and the status MCNF (Manually confirmed) Preceding operations whose confirmations were made automatically receive the status MILE only.

Example

You enter a progress confirmation for operation 20. Operation 20 receives the statuses MCNF and MILE. Operation 10 receives the status MILE.

Note

In collective orders, you can use progress confirmations to simultaneously confirm operations of more than one order (see Collective Orders: Example of Confirmations).