Delta Printing (SAP Library - Orders (CS-SE/PM-WOC-MO))

Delta Printing

Use

Delta printing means that only the operations and components, that do not yet have the status printed, are printed.

Prerequisites

In Customizing under Define Shop Papers, Forms, and Output Programs → Define Shop Papers you have activated the Operation Status or the Material Status, depending on the type of shop paper concerned, and set the indicator for delta printing:

You have activated the operation status for operation-based shop papers.
You have activated the material status for component-based shop papers.

In the overview under technical properties of shop papers you can find out which papers are operation-based and which are component-based.

Features

If you print shop papers directly from order processing, then operations or components with the status printed will not be printed again:

Only new, not yet printed operations appear on the job ticket and the operation control ticket.
Time tickets are only printed if the operations do not yet have the status printed.

Components are only printed if they have not yet been printed on a component ticket (for example, the material withdrawal slip).

Caution

If you change the quantity or tasks in an order, the status printed is not reset.

You can check the system status of the operation or the component at any time to establish whether the operation or the component has already been printed.

Operation Status/Material Status

The system sets the status printed as soon as a shop paper, for which the indicator operation status or material status is activated, is printed.

If you do not activate one of the indicators for any of the shop papers, then the operation and/or the component can never get the status printed. This means that if you repeat the delta printing, the system prints the shop papers again for all operations and/or components.

Order Status

If all the operations or components of an order have the status printed, then the order also gets the status printed.

If orders or components are added to or deleted from an order with the status printed, then the order status printed is automatically changed to partially printed. This means that, in delta printing, only the operations or components, that do not yet have the status printed, are printed. After delta printing the order status is reset from partially printed to printed.