Exploring SAP Applications for Make-to-Order Production – Semifinished Goods Planning and Assembly (1BM)

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

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Identify SAP apps for make-to-order production - semifinished goods planning and assembly (1BM)
  • Review business process scenarios for make-to-order production – semifinished goods planning and assembly (1BM)

SAP Apps for Make-to-Order Production – Semifinished Goods Planning and Assembly (1BM)

SAP Applications

  • Maintain PIRs (F1079) SAP Fiori App
  • Monitor Material Coverage - Net / Individual Segments (F2101) SAP Fiori App
  • Manage Production Orders (F2336) SAP Fiori App
  • Change Production Order (CO02) SAP GUI App
  • Confirm Production Operation (F3069) SAP Fiori App
  • Manage Production Operations (F2335) SAP Fiori App
  • Manage Sales Orders (F1873) SAP Fiori App
  • Schedule MRP Runs (F1339) SAP Fiori App

Maintain PIRs (F3445) SAP Fiori App

Description

You can use this app to create and monitor planned independent requirements (PIRs) of materials in months or weeks. You can use this information to negotiate rates with your suppliers and, as a result, reduce costs. You use PIRs to procure or produce materials or components prior to receiving sales orders for materials. This information is particularly important, if the lead times demanded by your customers are shorter than those to which your suppliers can commit.

This app helps you to detect forecast issues early in the process so that you can produce or purchase sufficient quantities of material to cover future sales demands on time. With the app, you can process PIRs for materials that have a forecast period indicator defined in the material master.

Note

The app only shows results for the selected period indicator. The default view is set to monthly periods.

Key Features

  • Sort and filter the list of materials based on various filters such as reach, accuracy, plant, active version or period indicator.

  • Determine the reach of your PIRs and find materials with an insufficient reach.

  • See how accurate your PIRs are for each period.

  • Create additional PIR versions for each material.

  • Change a PIR version to active or inactive

  • Mass maintain your PIRs

  • Use Microsoft Excel files using the comma-separated value file format (.csv) to maintain PIRs.

Monitor Material Coverage - Net / Individual Segments (F2101) SAP Fiori App

Description

With this app, you can monitor all the materials in a selected area of responsibility. This includes collective requirements materials, make-to-stock and make-to-order materials, and materials for direct procurement. You are provided with a list of all materials with a net requirement segment or individual planning segments, which considers the following planning segments:

  • Net segment - planning for the whole MRP area
  • Individual customer segment - using sales order stock
  • Individual project segment - using project stock
  • Segment for direct production planning - with direct creation of planned orders
  • Segment for direct procurement planning - with direct creation of purchase requisitions

The system calculates the requirements for each segment separately. The materials of these planning segments might have coverage issues according to a specified shortage definition. The shortage definition you choose contains a set of rules that the system uses for calculating the material shortages. These rules define the scope of the shortage calculation, meaning the supply and demand elements to be considered and the conditions that have to be met to be a relevant shortage. You can use the default filters Time till Shortage, Material, and Individual Segment to narrow down the scope of your list.

This app provides you with the information that you need to be able to react to the shortage situation on time, meaning that you can avoid disruptions to production or to the fulfillment of customer demands. From this app, you can directly navigate to the Manage Material Coverage app to view details of the selected materials and check different solutions.

Key Features

  • Select an area of responsibility.
  • Select a shortage definition depending on how you want the system to calculate the material shortage.
  • Narrow down the scope of the material list by using the Time till Shortage filter as well as other filters.
  • View a material list according to the selected shortage definition as well as other selection criteria.
  • Choose which table columns are shown and how table entries are sorted.
  • Display and configure a chart that shows the stock availability of a selected material within the horizon you select.
  • Navigate from the projected stock quickview to the Manage Material Coverage app by choosing Check Material Coverage.
  • Open a quickview for the material.
  • Open a quickview with a list of vendors for a material if there is more than one.
  • Tailor the app to your needs and save the combination of shortage definition and filters as a variant.
  • Save your personalized variants as tiles on your home page from which you can access this Monitor app or directly navigate to the respective Manage app.
  • View details of selected materials and check different solutions in the Manage Material Coverage app.
  • Find which shortages you accepted in the Manage Material Coverage app.
  • Revoke the acceptance of shortages to process the materials in the Manage Material Coverage app again and find solutions.

Manage Production Orders (F2336) SAP Fiori App

Description

With this app, you can monitor the progress of production. You have an overview of the current situation with all the information you need to solve any issues. If, for example, a particular order is delayed, you can navigate to the details to see at a glance why the order is delayed – perhaps there are missing components or there is a quantity deviation. You then have the information you need to take immediate action to resolve the issue and to keep your production processes running as smoothly as possible.

Key Features

  • Select an area of responsibility.

  • Narrow down the scope of the order list with additional filters.

  • View a table of orders according to your selection criteria.

  • Select which columns are displayed and sort the table entries.

  • Save the combination of filters and table settings as a personalized variant and save your variants as tiles on your home page.

  • View current issues for each production order and determine the cause of the issue.

  • Open a popover for the materials and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover for the production orders and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover for the production order operations and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover for the work centers and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover showing the current and preceding statuses for each production order.

  • Release production orders with the status Created.

  • Access a detail screen for each production order.

  • Navigate to related apps to solve issues.

Change Production Order (CO02) SAP GUI App

Description

You can change and maintain data of production orders with this app. A production order defines which material is to be processed, at which location, at what time and how much work is required. It also defines which resources are to be used and how the order costs are to be settled. You can also use this app to release and schedule individual production orders.

Key Features

  • Use search options on the initial screen to select the production order you want to change

    You can search for production orders per order type or per controlling area

  • Change header data of the production orders

    Make settings for the scheduling, quantity, and priority

  • Maintain the operation data
    • Insert or delete operations
    • Check the status and details of operations
    • Release options
    • Maintain operation components
    • Assign production resources and tools (PRTs) to operations
  • Maintain the component data
  • Maintain sequences for production orders
  • Check the material availability
  • Release production orders
  • Re-read the master data
  • Schedule production orders
  • Cost production orders

Confirm Production Operation (F3069) SAP Fiori App

Description

With this app, you can partially or completely confirm production operations. You can enter produced quantities including scrap or rework, edit material movements including splitting quantities between batches, and specify durations for activities for the selected production operation.

Key Features

  • Select an area of responsibility.
  • Narrow down the scope of the order list with additional filters.
  • View a table of orders according to your selection criteria.
  • Select which columns are displayed and sort the table entries.
  • Save the combination of filters and table settings as a personalized variant and save your variants as tiles on your home page.
  • View current issues for each production order and determine the cause of the issue.
  • See the progress of the operations for the production order in a graphical bar.
  • Open a popover for materials, production orders, production order operations, and work centers and navigate to related apps.
  • Open a popover showing the current and preceding statuses for each production order.
  • Change dates and quantities for production orders.
  • Edit production orders using a related app.
  • Release production orders with the status Created.
  • Put orders or materials on hold.
  • Read master data for production orders with the status Created.
  • Access a detail screen for each production order.
  • Navigate to related apps to solve issues.
  • Release hold for order or material.

Manage Production Operations (F2335) SAP Fiori App

Description

With this app, you can monitor the progress of production. You have an overview of the current situation with all the information you need to solve any issues. If, for example, a particular operation is delayed, you can navigate to the details to see at a glance why the operation is delayed - perhaps there are missing components, the resource may be occupied by another operation, or the previous operation is still not finished. You then have the information you need to take immediate action to resolve the issue and to keep your production processes running as smoothly as possible.

Key Features

  • Select an area of responsibility.

  • Narrow down the scope of the operation list with additional filters.

  • View a table of operations according to your selection criteria.

  • Select which columns are displayed and sort the table entries.

  • Save the combination of filters and table settings as a personalized variant and save your variants as tiles on your home page.

  • View current issues for each operation and determine the cause of the issue.

  • Open a popover for the materials and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover for the production orders and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover for the production order operations and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover for the work centers and navigate to related apps.

  • Open a popover showing the current and all preceding statuses for each production order operation.

  • Release production order operations currently in status Created.

  • Access a detail screen for each production order operation.

  • Confirm production order operations.

  • Navigate to related apps to solve issues.

Manage Sales Orders (F1873) SAP Fiori App

Description

With this app, you can search for sales orders according to your filter criteria and display them in a list. From the list, you can execute different actions, for example, you can reject all items of a sales order. You can also navigate to related apps, for example, to display sales order details or display the process flow.

Key Features

  • Search for sales orders using a free-text search.

  • Search for sales orders by entering a value in one or more of the filter fields.

  • Create a variant for the current filter selection and save it for later reference. SAP delivers a standard filter variant.

  • Filter the number of sales orders by using additional criteria.

  • Hide the filter bar.

  • Sort sales orders. SAP delivers a default sort order.

  • Hide or show columns in the list.

  • Create a sales order.

  • Reject all items for a selected sales order. You must enter a reason for rejection.

  • Set or remove a delivery block for a selected sales order on header level.

  • Set or remove a billing block for a selected sales order on header level.

  • Navigate to the sales order details to either display or change data by choosing a row in the list.

  • Navigate to the Customer - 360 View app.

  • Navigate to the sales order object page.

  • Navigate to the customer object page.

  • Navigate to the process flow, which provides you with a graphical overview of the chain of connected process steps and corresponding business documents (document flow).

    For example, you can see the status of a sales order, whether it is relevant for shipping, and if an invoice has been created.

Schedule MRP Runs (F1339) SAP Fiori App

Description

You can use this app to schedule and monitor application-related jobs. If you have manual activities that you often need to do at a specific time, the Application Jobs app can reduce your workload by running these tasks smoothly in the background. You can plan regular jobs which keeps you free to concentrate on other tasks.

Key Features

  • Schedule jobs based on a job template.

    • Select a job template.

    • Define the description, start date, start time and recurrence of the job.

    • Enter job-specific selection criteria and parameters.

  • Work with personalized job templates.

    • Create and personalize a job template.

    • Save personalized job template for later use.

      Note
      The parameters under Scheduling Information cannot be saved as a part of a template.
    • Share personalized templates.

  • Arrange job series that take different time zones into account.

  • Schedule job chains.

  • Monitor jobs.

    Display the following information: Status, Log, Description, Planned Start, Start, End, Duration, Created By, Job ID, and App Log Handle.

  • Display job results.

    Navigate to job result outputs of the type ‘LIST’ (ABAP spool lists) that were created with ABAP WRITE or ALV calls.

  • Copy a job.

  • Cancel a job.

How to Process Production Orders (1BM)

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How to Perform Make-to-Order Production – Semi-Finished Goods Planning and Assembly (1BM)

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