Use

You can use an original batch to store the original properties (characteristics) of a production lot. You can therefore store the properties of a material that do not change during the production process, for example.

Integration

If you have already created process batches for a production order, you can only define original batches within the confirmation.Therefore, you cannot use the transaction Original Batches for Process/Production Order (BMOBPRO) in combination with process batch management.

Similarly, you cannot generate any process batches for a production order if you have already used this transaction to create original batches for the production order.

Features

In the confirmation, you can define a process batch as an original batch. To do this, you enter the batch number of an existing process batch in the Assigned original batch field.

You can assign an original batch to a process batch until you assign this process batch to an order item. Before item assignment, the original batch is marked as a provisional original batch.

Once you have assigned the process batch (with assigned original batch) to an order item, the system assigns the original batch to the relevant order item. The original batch is then no longer provisional. The system then selects the OB indicator for the original batch.

If you remove the assignment of a process batch to an order item, the system automatically removes the assignment between the original batch and the order item as well. If several process batches with the same original batch are assigned to an order item, the system does not remove the assignment between the original batch and order item until you remove the assignment for all process batches.

You can assign process batches with different original batches to one order item, and you can also assign process batches with the same original batch to various order items.

Example

Process batches PB-1-A and PB-1-B exist for a production order. Both were generated from process batch PB-1. You therefore want to define process batch PB-1 as the original batch for PB-1-A and PB-1-B. Once you have entered PB-1 in the Assigned original batch field for the two process batches, PB-1 is a provisional original batch.

The following graphic illustrates this situation:

You then assign process batch PB-1-A to order item 1 for material A. With this item assignment, the provisional original batch PB-1 becomes an original batch for order item 1. The system therefore selects the OB indicator for PB-1.

The following graphic illustrates the situation after item assignment: