Configuring Engineered Labor Standards (ELS) 

Use

You use this function to configure engineered labor standards.

You split up an activity into work steps, which the warehouse worker must execute sequentially, and which make up a work step sequence. The planned time for the activity is then made up of the total of all planned times of the individual work steps in the work step sequence.

The system uses a wildcard function to assign a work step sequence to an activity.

You use either a constant or a formula to determine the planned time of a work step. You can make multiple entries for these, and use conditions to define the ones you want to use for the calculation.

The fields that you use in the formulas and conditions are dependent on the object type for which you are defining engineered labor standards. This means, for example, that it is not possible to use product information to calculate the ELS of a warehouse order directly, as this may collect warehouse tasks that have different products.

Activities

You configure engineered labor standards in Customizing for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), under Labor Management ® Determine Engineered Labor Standards.

 

       1.      Define Work Steps

Work steps are part of an activity. You can define a sequence of constants or formulas to which you assign conditions. The system goes through the individual sequence steps one by one. It uses the first constant or formula whose assigned condition is “true“.

       2.      Define Work Step Sequence

A work step sequence consists of work steps or other work step sequences.

The resulting sequence of work steps must be executed sequentially. The planned time of the work step sequence is the total of the planned times of each related work step.

       3.      Assign Work Step Sequences

You assign the following to the work step sequence:

○       Warehouse number

○       Object type

○       External process step

○       Activity area

The system uses the wildcard function. If the system fails to find an entry for one of the objects listed above, it looks for an assignment without an activity area. If this does not exist either, the system looks for an assignment with warehouse number and object type.

       4.      Assign Formulas and Conditions

The following shows you which object types you can assign to which fields:

○       Workload fields are allowed for all object types

○       Fields for the product are allowed for the object types warehouse task, physical inventory item, HU item, delivery item, and VAS activity

○       Fields for the Packaging specification are allowed for the object type VAS activity

 

Direct ELS Definition

If a work step sequence consists of just one work step, and if you actively assign this only once using Assign Work Step Sequence, you can use the Direct ELS Definition.

In this, you assign the engineered labor standards directly. The system generates the required work step and work step sequence automatically.