Production Orders (SAP Library - Production Planning and Control)

Production Orders

Use

Production orders contain all the information you need for the production process, for example quantity, basic date, information about BOM and routing. The production orders in AFS contain AFS-specific data (grid values and categories) to meet the requirements of the apparel and footwear industry.

Features

You create a production order for an AFS material in the SAP standard application. In a production order for an AFS material you can maintain the quantity to be produced at SKU level. Here you can find information from both the AFS BOM (see Bills of Material) and the AFS routing (see Routings).

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Note

Note that an AFS production order contains only one category but it can contain several grid values.

Tolerances

Excess quantities or shortages can result during production. For these situations you can maintain tolerance limits for each SKU. You can use this so that upon goods receipt in your warehouse you can consider quantity deviations per SKU that arise during the production process.

Marker Data and Bundles

Using the production order in AFS you can carry out the production with bundles. To do so, you must define the material for the use of markers (corresponding entry in the material master in the AFS MRP view under Bundles).

You can enter marker data in the planned order or in the production order. The marker data entered in the planned order is transferred to the bundle during the conversion of the planned order into the production order.

You might need more than one marker for a production order. Every marker has a unique number. Bundles are all the pattern pieces in a marker that will be sewn together to form a garment in a certain size, multiplied by the number of fabric plies in a stack.

To save the cut off end bits of a marker, the cutting department might line up several markers on one stack. Another possibility is that the markers are divided into segments so that the cutter can roughly separate the stack, especially if the markers are very long. In both cases, a dimension might turn up more than once. That means that you have to uniquely name each bundle so that you can define the bundles from one stack.

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Note

The bundle quantity can correspond to the marker quantity. This depends on the corresponding production cycle. The respective data is managed in an external system.

You can either transfer the marker data from an external marker creation system to AFS for the bundle entry by using a user exit or manually enter the marker data, if necessary.

Deviation of the SKU quantity in the production order from the bundle quantity

There are the following cases:

There is a sales order or there are planned independent requirements. A quantity shortage of one or more dimensions occurs.

A new planned order is generated for the missing quantity after a new MRP run. The MRP temporarily assigns it to the planned independent requirement.

There is a planned independent requirement. There is a quantity excess of one or more dimensions.

The excess quantities become freely available stock. They can be consumed by a subsequent planned independent requirement if the dates allow. MRP temporarily assigns the freely available stock to the planned independent requirement.

There is no planned independent requirement. There is a quantity excess of one or more dimensions.

The production order is changed accordingly.

There is no planned independent requirement. There is a quantity shortage of one or more dimensions.

The production order is changed accordingly.

For further information about the AFS production order, see Availability Check for Components.

AFS Restrictions

AFS does not support assembly orders.

The creation of a production order with configuration does not take AFS-specific data into account (grid values and categories).

AFS does not support the creation of a production order with reference.

Collective orders are not supported in AFS.

You cannot use AFS components for a production order without a header material.

The automatic batch determination is not possible for AFS components. The automatic batch determination can, however, be carried out for SAP standard components that are assigned to an AFS header material. A temporary batch determination for AFS components takes place during the AFS MRP. You can make a fixed batch assignment in the production order.

The order information system does not contain AFS-specific data (grid values and categories). No AFS-specific selection criteria exist for this.

You can maintain tolerances at SKU level in the production order.

The tolerance check in Enter time ticket for production order (transaction CO11N) and Reprocessing Incorrect Confirmations (transaction CO16N) takes place at SKU level.

When confirming using the order number or confirmation number (transactions CO11 and CO15), the tolerance check takes place at operation level.

You cannot modify system messages for the order creation.
AFS does not support the missing parts processing in quality management.