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To make planned orders relevant for distribution to an MES, you must ensure that the following prerequisites are satisfied:

  • The planned order must be relevant to repetitive manufacturing. To satisfy this prerequisite, create a suitable repetitive manufacturing profile and assign it to the material you wish to manufacture. For the integration with the MES, you should specify (in the control data) that planned orders assigned to the production version are to be reduced in the case of confirmations.

  • A production version that is relevant to repetitive manufacturing must be assigned to the planned order. You maintain the production version in the material master of the material being produced.

  • When a planned order is sent, the ERP system must determine the routing that is valid for the order, otherwise the distribution is terminated. You need, therefore, to have created a routing (transaction CA01) or a rate routing (transaction CA21) for the material to be produced. Alternatively, you can reference an ME routing from SAP ME (see Integration of ME Routings). This ME routing is created as a routing in ERP and can be used in the planned order.

  • In the production version for the material to be produced you have specified the task list type, the group, and the group counter of the routing that is to be used.

  • Check the Customizing settings for automatic determination of the valid routing:

    • Determine the selection ID that is used for automatic selection of the routing alternative by calling the Customizing activity Define Scheduling Parameters for Planned Orders (in the IMG under   Production   Repetitive Manufacturing   Planning  ). Check the scheduling settings for your plant and your order type, if necessary, to see which selection ID has been set for detailed scheduling or rate-based scheduling. In the standard system, the selection IDs 01 or 02 are used.

    • Call the Customizing activity for automatic plan selection (in the IMG under   Production   Capacity Requirements Planning   Operations   Scheduling   Task List Selection   Select automatically  ) and check if there is an entry that matches your master data for the selection ID determined above and the task list type (N or R), the plan usage, and the release status. If necessary, add the missing entry.

  • The opening date of the planned order must be the current day's date or a date in the past. The opening horizon is part of the scheduling margin key for the float and is assigned to the material master. You maintain the scheduling margin key in Customizing under   Material Requirements Planning   Planning   Scheduling and Capacity Parameters   Define Floats (Scheduling Margin Key)  .