Setting Up Master Data for Advanced Production Integration

The production supply area (PSA) is an area on the shop floor where products are staged or withdrawn. To stage products for a production order, a warehouse must know where it has to take the products. For production orders in the ERP system, the PSA contains this information.

In the advanced production integration, the PSA will always contain a storage location, which is connected to the same warehouse as the storage location supplying the material, or it is the same storage location. A shuttle scenario, that is, one where the PSA storage location is not connected to the warehouse or is connected to another warehouse than the supplying storage location, is not supported.

For the advanced production integration, all control cycles in ERP look the same; the staging indicator is 5 – EWM Staging. The detailed settings are done in EWM.

In the assignment of bins to a product staging area, you can distinguish whether a product is staged for an individual manufacturing order (single-order staging) or for several combined (cross-order staging). Crate parts can be also staged for a production material request.

As with crate parts, settings in the EWM control cycle are required for the quantities that are to be staged. The system receives the demand for supply from the production material request, but the quantity is defined in the bin assignment (either with the help of a packaging specification or a direct entry). This enables the controller executing the staging process to stage partial quantities of the products at intervals as they are required. This is controlled by the BAdI /SCWM/EX_MFG_STAGE_INFO, so that it can be influenced by customers with their own BAdI implementation.

Since SAP S/4HANA 2023 it is also possible to base the quantities on the PMR quantities.