Unit 11

Information Systems, Mass

Processing and Automation
Unit Overview

Overview of information systems

Overview of mass processing and automation

Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, you will be able to:

Give an overview of information systems in the context of production orders

Give an overview of automation and mass processing options for production
orders
Explain how several individual orders can be linked over a number of levels
to create a collective order
Estimate where collective orders can be applied, and understand their
advantages and limits
Describe the structures and functions of collective orders
Obtain an overview of the possibilities of integrating the collective order into
different applications
use the individual functions (release, print, confirm, and so on) in the
production order for a collective order
Use the options and functions provided by trigger points for making your
daily work more efficient

Unit Contents
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Information Systems .................................................350

Automation and Mass Processing..................................353
Collective Orders .....................................................358
Trigger Points .........................................................362

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Lesson: Information Systems

Lesson Overview
This lesson gives an overview of information systems.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Give an overview of information systems in the context of production orders

Business Example
Production schedulers, production managers or supervisors need constant reports
about the status of individual orders, or about large numbers of orders that are
currently being used in the production process, have already been confirmed,
delivered or have already been deleted.
In particular, they need a quick overview of orders that have not been started or
finished on time. For the daily control of production, it is not only important
for this group in your company to have reports about orders, but also to have an
overview of the pool of orders at a work center.

Figure 132: Information Systems: Overview

There are flexible evaluation options and several information systems for
production orders.

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Lesson: Information Systems

You will find most of these evaluation options under:

ECC Logistics Production Shop Floor Control Information System
They differ in the way they use the order database (directly or indirectly) as
well as in the results they can show.
You can use the Enterprise Portal for the role of a production scheduler to
process and track production orders and other objects (inspection lots, quality
notifications, malfunction reports, and maintenance orders).
In addition to the above-mentioned evaluation options, there are
capacity evaluations, Event Manager (SCM), Alert Monitor (APO), batch
where-used lists, evaluation of digital signatures and other lists.

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Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:

Give an overview of information systems in the context of production orders

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Lesson: Automation and Mass Processing

Lesson: Automation and Mass Processing

Lesson Overview
This lesson gives an overview of automation and mass processing options for
production orders.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Give an overview of automation and mass processing options for production

orders

Business Example
It will often happen that you need to process several production orders at the
same time. Automation options and a mass processing function are available
for this reason.

Figure 133: Automation

The SAP ECC system offers a number of automation options for rationalizing
and saving time in order management.

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In addition to the above, the following functions should also be noted:

Process integration functions

Serial number creation (serial number profile)
Batch creation (production scheduling profile)
Batch determination (batch search strategy)
Stock determination (stock determination profile)

Figure 134: Mass Processing

Mass processing works quickly and without dialog.

The advantages of mass processing (COHV) are:

Execution online or in the background

Separation into selection and processing

Parallel processing
Enhanced, unique selection criteria
Uniform, customizable display (field selection)
Enhanced release and scheduling functionality
Logbook for background processing (application log)

You can start mass processing with the options execute immediately, generate
function indicator, or background processing.
If orders are only marked, these indicators must be processed later with the
COWORKDISPATCHNEW program.

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Lesson: Automation and Mass Processing

You can find mass processing under:

ECC Logistics Production Shop Floor Control Control Mass
Processing
Transactions from earlier releases (CO04, CO05, CO44) have been taken out of
the menu, but still exist.

Figure 135: Functions of Mass Processing

Production orders and planned orders (in part) can be processed with mass
processing.
Whether individual functions can be used depends on the selected object (order,
operation, material component, production resources/tools).
With the relevant default settings, several functions can be executed consecutively.
This setting can be made on a toolbar on the Mass Processing tab.
You can also use the scheduling function to reschedule orders.
Quantities that were confirmed in the material availability check can be released.
Confirmations can be made for orders or operations.
The material availability check can also be performed for planned orders (as of
release 5.0).
Planned orders can be converted to production orders (new form of collective
conversion (as of release 6.0).

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Figure 136: Planning Background Jobs

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Lesson: Automation and Mass Processing

Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:

Give an overview of automation and mass processing options for production

orders

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Lesson: Collective Orders

Lesson Overview
This lesson provides an introduction to the concept of the collective order. First,
application areas, advantages, prerequisites and structure are introduced. A
short demonstration shows the essential functions of the production order for
a collective order.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Explain how several individual orders can be linked over a number of levels
to create a collective order
Estimate where collective orders can be applied, and understand their
advantages and limits
Describe the structures and functions of collective orders
Obtain an overview of the possibilities of integrating the collective order into
different applications
use the individual functions (release, print, confirm, and so on) in the
production order for a collective order

Business Example
Collective orders are the only option for multilevel, collective management of
production orders for a complete finished product. A range of functions can be
used on several levels (across orders) for many orders.

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Lesson: Collective Orders

Figure 137: Collective Orders

Collective orders are the only option for multi-level management of production
orders and completely integrated in all modules (SD, MM, ) of the SAP ECC
system.
A separate subordinate order is created for each bill of material component
whose material master has special procurement key 52 (special procurement
type direct production).
You can deactivate the special procurement key in the material master using the
Explosion Type field in the bill of material item.
All orders in the collective order have the same order type.
Production versions are passed down from the leading order to subsequent orders.
You can create the leading order with either an internal or external number.
You can only create subsequent orders with internal numbers.
The lot size indicator (from the material master) is not taken into account when
individual orders are created.
Individual orders can be added or deleted.
Any component of an order (whether with or without special procurement key
52) can be made into an order for operational purposes.

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Other special procurement types, for example production in another plant,

can be combined with direct production (collective order).

Figure 138: Collective Orders - Advantages

You can learn more about collective orders in the course RCPP03.

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Lesson: Collective Orders

Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:

Explain how several individual orders can be linked over a number of levels
to create a collective order

Estimate where collective orders can be applied, and understand their

advantages and limits

Describe the structures and functions of collective orders

Obtain an overview of the possibilities of integrating the collective order into

different applications

use the individual functions (release, print, confirm, and so on) in the
production order for a collective order

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Lesson: Trigger Points

Lesson Overview
This lesson familiarizes you with the options provided by trigger points and their
functions.

Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Use the options and functions provided by trigger points for making your
daily work more efficient

Business Example
You want to use functions that can be automated at operation level. You can use
trigger points for this.

Figure 139: Event-Triggered Automation

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Lesson: Trigger Points

Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:

Use the options and functions provided by trigger points for making your
daily work more efficient

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Unit Summary
You should now be able to:

Give an overview of information systems in the context of production orders

Give an overview of automation and mass processing options for production

orders

Explain how several individual orders can be linked over a number of levels
to create a collective order

Estimate where collective orders can be applied, and understand their

advantages and limits

Describe the structures and functions of collective orders

Obtain an overview of the possibilities of integrating the collective order into

different applications

use the individual functions (release, print, confirm, and so on) in the
production order for a collective order

Use the options and functions provided by trigger points for making your
daily work more efficient

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