Shop Floor-Related Master Data 
This chapter provides information about shop floor-related master data. It helps you to define shop floor-related master data and map shop floor infrastructure in SAP ME. When you release demand for a product to the shop floor, the system creates SFC numbers to represent each unit you want to track. As the floor produces these units, SFC numbers allow you to track them. In the system, routings represent your manufacturing processes. Once an SFC number is released to the floor, it travels down a routing as production operators work on the unit.
Implementation Considerations
To define your shop floor-related master data, you must decide:
Which resources you want to track, how you plan to group them, and what operations your production operators or machines perform at these resources (see Resource)
Whether you use work centers to organize your shop floor (see Work Center)
Which operations production operators need to perform on the SFC number (see Operation)
How you want to set up your routings (see Routing)
Whether to use scripting and how you plan to use it (see Branching with Nonconformance Codes and Scripting)
Which certifications you want to use for defining the level of expertise for an operator to perform work at an operation, resource, customer order, or a material (see Certification)
Where and when you want the system to execute hook point activities (see Hook Point Activity)
Which hook point activities you want the system to execute