Work Order Configuration

In the work order configuration, you make settings for work order creation and publication. In particular, you determine which master data SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) uses to create a work order.

Prerequisites

You have defined work order types and phase types, in Customizing for Supply Network Collaboration under Start of the navigation path Work Order Next navigation step Codes End of the navigation path . Work order types are classification and selection characteristics for work orders.

Features

Characteristic-Dependent Settings

You can make the settings dependent on the following characteristics:

Customer
Supplier
Ship-from location
Customer location
Product

You can determine different settings for different characteristics combinations. If you do not enter any characteristics, the settings apply to all work orders. An entry of this kind determines the standard setting for work orders. You can exclude work orders having a certain characteristics combination from the standard setting, by creating an additional entry with this characteristics combination and the desired setting.

If multiple entries match a concrete characteristics combination, the system uses the most detailed entry having the highest priority. The priorities are as follows:

A matching customer has priority over a matching supplier.
A matching supplier has priority over a matching ship-from location.
A matching ship-from location has priority over a matching customer location.
A matching customer location has priority over a matching product.

For more information, see Example.

General Settings

In the General Settings for Work Orders section of the work order configuration, you determine, for example, the following:

Should the system create work orders for a purchase order automatically upon receipt of the purchase order from the customer back-end system?
Should it be possible to create work orders in SAP SNC using the report for creating work orders?
How many work orders should the system create for a purchase order: One per item, then with multiple deliveries, or one for each request schedule line?
Should a work order be published immediately upon its creation, or after its update through a changed purchase order?
Of what type should the work order be?
Should the Instructions tab page display the bin column?
The column is relevant if you use binning. In the bin column, you as customer specify the bin in which a test program sorts a product.
Which messages should be sent to update the customer back-end system (work order information or production progress notification)? When should the messages be sent (for example, never, at phase completion, or each time actual data is saved)? For more information, see Update of the Customer Back-End with Work Order Data.
Must the supplier enter batch numbers when reporting actual data for a finished product (primary product or co-product) or component?

Creating Phase Structures

If you want to use a phase structure to create work orders, you make the following settings:

Under Phase Structures, you create a phase structure.
If you want to use external components for a work order, you define component assignment rules under Component Assignment Rule. Component assignment rules are relevant when the work order is to use external components (components from a subcontract order or components from a production process model or from a production data structure. For more information, see Phase Structure, Component Assignment Rule, and Use of Components from a Subcontract Order.

Assigning Master Data

You can make the following settings under Master Data Assignment:

You determine which master data the system uses to create work orders. You have the following options:
- Phase structure
- Production process model (PPM) or from a production data structure (PDS)
- Phases from the phase structure, components from the PPM, or from the PDS
If you use a phase structure to create work orders, you do the following:
- You specify the name of the phase structure.
- If the work order is to use external components, you specify the name of the component assignment rule that you want the system to use to assign the external components to the phases.
  
  Note
  
  You leave the phase structure field blank if you are using production process models or production data structures to create work orders. The system determines these master data objects automatically using the SAP APO source of supply determination.
  
  End of the note.
You specify the time period the master data assignment is to be valid.
For the system to consider this master data assignment, you have to select the Active checkbox.

Available Batches

Under Batches Available for Work Order, you determine which batches are available for a work order. For more information, see Determination of Customer Batches Available for a Work Order. Note that you cannot make these settings at the product level.

Activities

To call up the work order configuration, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Master Data Application-Specific Master Data Work Orders Work Order Configuration End of the navigation path .

Example

This example provides an example for the use of the characteristics. The following table shows the characteristics of a purchase order:

Purchase Order Characteristics
Characteristic	Value
Customer	`SNC_CUSTOMER`
Supplier	`SNC_SUPPLIER`
Ship-From Location	`SNC_SUPPLIER_LOCATION`
Customer Location	`SNC_CUSTOMER_LOCATION`
Product	`SNC_PRODUCT`

The work orders that are created from this purchase order have these characteristics as well.

The following table shows the entries that you have created in work order configuration:

Entry 1
Characteristic	Value
Customer	`SNC_CUSTOMER`
Supplier	`SNC_SUPPLIER`
Ship-From Location	`SNC_SUPPLIER_LOCATION`
Customer Location	None
Product	`SNC_PRODUCT`

Entry 2
Characteristic	Value
Customer	`SNC_CUSTOMER`
Supplier	`SNC_SUPPLIER`
Ship-From Location	None
Customer Location	`SNC_CUSTOMER_LOCATION`
Product	`SNC_PRODUCT`

Both entries match a work order that has the above characteristics. However, because a matching ship-from location has priority over a matching customer location, the system uses entry 1 to configure the work order.