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 Order Combination in Process Batch Management

Use

You can also generate process batches for combined production orders and the related original orders. However, there are a few factors that need to be taken into consideration if you do this, and these are discussed here.

For further information on order combination, see Combining Production and Process Orders .

Integration

You can only post goods receipts for original orders. You cannot post goods receipts for combined orders.

In process batch management, the system does not support automatic goods receipts for original orders from the combined orders.

Recommendation Recommendation

We recommend that you post goods movements for production orders with process batches using the transaction Goods movement (MIGO).

End of the recommendation.

Features

Combination by order

If you have combined a production order by order, you confirm all operations for this order via the combined order.

In the combined order, you create process batches, edit them, and assign them to items.

In the last operation requiring confirmation in the combined order, you must assign the process batches to the original orders. As order combination is not allowed for operations with co-product items, the system is able to uniquely assign the process batches to an order item in the original orders.

You can also assign goods receipt batches to the process batches. The system then proposes these goods receipt batches in the transaction Goods movements (MIGO) if you want to post goods receipts for the original orders.

Combination by operation

If you combined a production order by operation, you confirm the combined operations via the combined order, and the non-combined operations via the original orders.

The process batches of the original order are transferred to the combined order as follows: The system automatically transfers the highest-level process batches that are not yet assigned to an item from the original order to the combined order. However, process batches that were created for an operation that comes after the last combined operation are not transferred to the combined order.

The process batches of the combined order are transferred to the original order as follows: The process batches that you assigned to this original order in the combined order are transferred from the combined order to the original order. An assignment to the original order is created by assigning a process batch to an order item. The system automatically transfers the process batches from the combined order to the original order.

Once the last operation requiring confirmation has been combined, the system automatically assigns the process batches to the order item in the original order. In this case, you can also assign a goods receipt batch to a process batch. The system then proposes these goods receipt batches in the transaction Goods movements (MIGO) if you post goods receipts for the original order.

If the last operation requiring confirmation in the original order is not combined, you must assign the process batches to the order items manually in the original order.

Constraints

The following constrains must be taken into consideration when using process batch management together with order combination:

  • Operations involving co-product items cannot be combined.

  • You can only delete a process batch in the order that you created it for.

  • In the combined order, process batches can only be created with reference to an input batch or without reference. They cannot be created with reference to an order item.

  • In the last operation requiring confirmation in the combined order, the process batches must be assigned to an order item. After you have saved, the assignment cannot be removed. The reason for this is that, when you save, the assigned process batches and the confirmed quantities are automatically transferred to the original orders. If you want to remove the assignment, you must reverse the confirmation for the combined order.