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Role documentation Edit Manufacturing Cockpit for Plant Manager  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Technical name: SAP_PP_PI_MFG_COCKPIT_2_EXP

Tasks

You can use this role to maintain any process manufacturing cockpits that have been defined for the plant manager. Like in PI sheets, you can perform calculations, create process messages, make function calls. However, the data that you maintain in the cockpit cannot be order-specific.

Notes on Tailoring

Authorization to Maintain Process Manufacturing Cockpits

You need a separate authorization to maintain process manufacturing cockpits. This authorization (BC-SRV-KPR-BDS: Authorization for document set; authorization object S_BDS_DS) is included in this role.

Authorization to Display the Input Help for Message and Instruction Characteristics

To display the input help for process message and process instruction characteristics, you need the authorization for the corresponding characteristic. This display authorization is included in this role but no characteristics have been assigned to the role yet.

If you want to specify that certain process message and process instruction characteristics are displayed with this role, you can add them to the authorization profile for this role under Production Planning -> PP-PI: Ext. Access to Message/Instruction Characteristics -> Characteristic Name.

Authorization to Execute Function Calls and other Applications

If you want to execute function calls or another application, such as a browser-based PI sheet, in the cockpit, you also need the authorization for the corresponding function. These authorizations cannot be predefined in this role. For this reason, you must assign them through another role or add them to this role.

Authorization for Digital Signatures

In general, you can execute digital signatures and complete the cockpit. However, this role does not comprise authorizations to execute digital signatures or complete the cockpit. These functions do not make sense in a cockpit since you would render the entire cockpit inactive by completing it, which in turn you can do by executing an (asynchronous) digital signature. You can then no longer maintain the cockpit.