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Function documentationCreation of Work Orders

 

SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) creates work orders based on a purchase order that the customer sends from his or her ERP back-end system to SAP SNC. The following options are available:

  • Automatic creation upon receipt of purchase order

    You can determine that SAP SNC creates work orders automatically upon receipt of a purchase order.

  • Creation with a report

    You can also create work orders at a later time in the SAP SNC system, using the Create Work Orders from Purchase Orders (/SCA/WO_CREATE) report.

    Note Note

    You cannot create work orders manually or add phases manually to a work order on the Web UI.

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Prerequisites

  • You have set up the work order configuration (see Work Order Configuration). You determine the following in work order configuration:

    • Which master data SAP SNC uses to create a work order

    • How many work orders SAP SNC creates for a purchase order (one for each purchase order item, or one for each purchase order schedule line)

    • Whether you are allowed to use the /SCA/WO_CREATE report to create work orders

  • You have defined number ranges and have set up internal number assignment (number assignment by the system) for work orders. You define number ranges for work orders on the Web UI.

Features

Master Data Determination

To create the phase inputs and phase outputs of the work order, the system first determines the master data to be used, when it creates the work order. Depending on your settings in work order configuration, SAP SNC uses the following master data:

  • Phases and components from the phase structure

    With this option, the system uses the phases and components from the phase structure that you created in the work order configuration.

  • Phases and components from a production process model (PPM) or production data structure (PDS) for Supply Network Planning (only in an SCM server installation)

    With this option, the system uses the SAP APO source determination to determine a PPM or PDS.

  • Phases from the phase structure and components from PPM or PDS

    With this option, the system creates the phases of the work order using the phase structure from the work order configuration. However, the system uses the input and output components from the PDS or PPM as input and output components.

For more information, see Master Data for Phase Creation.

Subcontracting Components

If you have made settings in work order configuration so that a work order based on the phase structure is to use the components of a subcontract order, the system assigns the subcontracting components to the phases when it creates the work order. For more information, see Use of Components from the Subcontract Order and Component Assignment Rule.

Determining Dates/Times in the Work Order

For every purchase order schedule line, the system creates a delivery (transportation PIO) in the work order for the ordered product and one for every co-product. The system copies the delivery date/time and the shipping date/time from the purchase order schedule line for the deliveries. Based on the shipping date/time, the system uses backward scheduling to calculate the consumption dates/times and availability dates/times of the input and output components in the production phases. To do so, the system uses the quantity-independent net phase durations and net break durations from the master data.

Determining Quantities in the Work Order

The system copies the product quantity from the associated purchase order schedule line for a delivery. Every phase contains information about the quantity of the input and output components that are required for a particular primary product quantity. The system is therefore able to calculate the quantities of the input and output components that are required for the delivery quantity.

Component Quantities for Components from Subcontract Orders

In the phase structure, you can only determine quantities for components assigned directly. If a phase uses components from the subcontract order, the system uses the quantity information from the subcontract order. The component list for the subcontract order schedule line contains the quantity required or produced for the ordered primary product quantity, for every subcontracting component, and for every co-product.

Note Note

If a phase copies a component from the subcontract order and you have assigned this component to the phase directly in the phase structure, the work order uses the quantity information from the subcontract order for the phase.

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Example Example

Subcontract order: 1000 PCs, 1200 monitors

Phase in the phase structure: 1000 PCs, 1000 monitors

Phase input and output in the work order: 1000 PCs, 1200 monitors

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Activities

  • A checkbox in the purchase order informs whether a work order already exists for a purchase order. You can navigate from the purchase order to the work order.

    Note Note

    If a work order already exists for a purchase order, the supplier cannot create any purchase order confirmations for the purchase order. In work order collaboration, the supplier only uses work order confirmations.

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  • Depending on the settings in work order configuration, SAP SNC publishes the work order immediately. For more information, see Publication of Work Orders.