Setting Up Master Data for Delivery-Based Production Supply

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to define master data for the delivery based production supply.

Production Supply Area (Delivery-Based Production Integration)

The production supply area is an area on the shop floor where products are staged or withdrawn.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 SAP ERP system, the Production Supply Area (PSA) contains this information.

Flowchart illustrating how production supply areas connect multiple work centers to master data and storage locations, highlighting organization in manufacturing processes.

The PSA also contains the information about the storage location from where the material is taken during the production process. This is important for the delivery-based production integration, where this storage location can be a different storage location than the one supplying the material. It can even be connected to a different warehouse. In this way, the SAP ERP system knows what type of delivery is required.

Control Cycles for Delivery-Based Production Integration

In the delivery-based production supply, you have to determine whether you want to stage the components as pick parts, release order parts, or crate parts. For pick parts and release order parts, you have to maintain the proper control cycles in SAP ERP.

A flowchart illustrating the process of picking, releasing, and creating parts, with each step feeding into a central system for component delivery management (T-EW40).

Crate Parts

For crate parts, the more important setting is in SAP EWM. The control cycle in SAP ERP can say that it is for crate parts, and never really be used in this way, or it can say manual staging. The quantities to be staged are defined in the EWM control cycle. You can either select:

Calculation based on packaging specification
In the control cycle, you enter the quantity classification from the packaging specification to be used, the number of containers (containers refers to this quantity classification) to be replenished, and the minimum number of containers that have to be available in the PSA. The determination procedure for the packaging specification is assigned in the warehouse number settings, in the field CPRepl. Proced.
Quantity-based calculation
You enter in the control cycle the replenishment quantity, the minimum product quantity in the PSA and the unit.

For crate part replenishment, you have to define the required replenishment settings for the storage type in customizing (as for any other kind of replenishment) and trigger the replenishment with the transaction, Replenish Stock (/SCWM/REPL).

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