Transfer of Routing from SAP ERP to SAP ME
This function enables the transfer of routing data from SAP ERP to create or update corresponding routing and operation records in SAP ME (see Routing and Operation).
This function supports long material numbers (see Transfer of Long Material Number).
Integration
The routing is a description of which operations (process steps) have to be carried out and in which order to produce a material (product). Therefore, routings are used as a template for production orders and planned orders (repetitive manufacturing) as well as a basis for product costing.
The data stored in the routing serves as a basis for production planning activities in SAP ERP such as the following:
In Materials Management to plan the usage of materials and external operations
In Production Planning and Control to plan the usage of work centers
In Quality Management to plan quality inspections for production activities
SAPMEINT creates two SAP ME objects:
Operation
Description
of SAP ME operation is populated with SAP ERPoperation short text
.Routing
SAP ME defaults the first routing to version
A
and increments an additional integer value for subsequent updates. For example:A-01
,A-02
.A new routing version is created when you add new operations or change the following in SAP ERP:
Operation number
Operation control key
Operation short text
The last new routing successfully created in SAP ME from receipt of the SAP ERP
LOIROU
IDoc is set toReleasable
and marked as the current version of that routing.The last ERP operation is flagged as a reporting step in SAP ME using the data field
IS_LAST_REPORTING_STEP
in the routing step.
SAPMEINT does not support the following:
Multiple
Group Counters
Additional
Sequences
ERP milestone operations
Inspection characteristics
Prerequisites
SAP ERP
You have created work centers with plant and production-relevant data in the Logistics module (see Creating, Changing and Displaying Work Centers).
You have created work center categories.
You have set up ALE communication to create and transmit
LOIROU
IDocs (see Customizing for ALE for Communication with SAP ME).You have defined DRF Replication Model to replicate
LOIROU03
IDocs (in Customizing forProduction
, choose
Integration with a Manufacturing Execution System
Basic Settings for MES Integration
). For information about SAP ERP versions supporting DRF, see SAP Note 1793291
.
SAP ME
You have verified system rule settings (see ERP Integration Rules and SAP ME Configuration for SAP ME ERP Integration).
You have verified settings for the
Operation
andRouting
categories inERP Field Maintenance
(see ERP Field Maintenance).
Activities
When you create a routing master record in SAP ERP and send it to SAP ME, SAPMEINT creates the corresponding routing and operation records in SAP ME (see Routing Maintenance and Operation Maintenance).