Initial Screen

First, you preselect the orders using parameters and characteristics. You can narrow down the selection of orders further by following the steps described below. You can select the following types of orders using their order numbers:

You can enter number range intervals or make a multiple selection.

If you select sales orders, the system proposes the orders and planned orders that are assigned to them. It also displays the open quantities for the relevant customer special stock so that they can be converted to an order if necessary.

You can restrict the selection of orders using the following criteria:

If you enter a material, for instance, the system only selects the objects in the specified order number ranges that are relevant to the production of this material. If you did not specify a number range, the system finds all the orders for this material.

In preselection, the search for sales orders, planned orders, and production orders is activated if:

The finish date refers to the order finish date for planned and production orders, and to the materials staging date for sales orders.

When you click Choose , you exit the initial screen. Where appropriate, the characteristics selection screen appears; otherwise the system displays the list of your preselected orders.

Characteristics Selection Screen

You can use the characteristics selection to restrict the orders by the configuration characteristics of their header materials or components. To activate the characteristic selection, click one of the Char. selection on/off pushbuttons at the end of the material or component lines. When the characteristics selection is activated, the green light is displayed. You then enter the characteristic values for the restriction on the subsequent screens. To go to the next screen, choose Choose . In the first dialog box, you enter a selection profile, a configurable material, or a class type and a class. The system determines the characteristics.

The system displays the characteristics and their values in the same way as for the classification.

You can use classes of the class types 001 , 300 , 022, and 023 . If you use class types 022 and 023 , the system selects by components, that is, it selects orders that contain at least one component with the characteristic attributes.

Screen for Manual Selection of Orders

The orders selected using these parameters and characteristics are displayed in a table.

There are also columns that display the unit of measure and the finish date.

The table contains the most important order data. To choose the orders you want to combine, select them in the first column.

This table only displays the combinable orders that fulfill the selection criteria. Orders that meet the following criteria are not included.

You must select one of the orders as a reference order. This order is used as a reference for creating a selection matrix for operations and for creating the combined order. When you create the combined order, the routing, characteristics, costing sheet, and so on, are copied from the reference order to the combined order.

If you set the indicator Combine all operations, all operations of the selected orders are combined. Otherwise, you can select the operations for combination afterwards.

From the list, you can double click the individual orders to display or change them. If you make any changes, choose Refresh to update the list.

If the system finds orders for make-to-order production, the orders are displayed in an individual customer segment. The display is based on the current stock/requirements list for a material. A title, highlighted in color, provides information on the relevant schedule line in the sales order and the materials staging date. This is followed by the orders that are assigned to this sales order. If necessary, the system also displays as open quantities any quantities of a customer special stock not covered by orders or external procurement. These quantities can also be selected for combination. If selected, they are converted to an order. A blank line signifies that the subsequent lines do not belong to the previous individual customer segment.

Following selection, the selected orders are transferred to the MILLOC01 customer exit ( function module: EXIT_SAPLMILL_OC_001 ) .