Exploring SAP Applications for Make-to-Stock Production – Discrete Manufacturing (BJ5)

• Maintain PIRs (F3445) SAP Fiori App
• Schedule MRP Runs (F1339) SAP Fiori App
• Monitor Material Coverage - Net / Individual Segments (F2101) SAP Fiori App
• Check Material Coverage (F0251) SAP Fiori App
• Manage Production Orders (F2336) SAP Fiori App
• Stage Materials for Production (MF60) SAP GUI App
• Confirm Production Operation (F3069) SAP Fiori App
• Post Goods Movement (MIGO) SAP GUI App
• Display Production Order (CO03) SAP GUI App
• Pick Components for Production Orders (CO27) SAP GUI App
• Material Documents Overview (F1077) SAP Fiori App
• Material Scrap - Maximum Deviation (F2035) SAP Fiori App

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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, App Log Handle.

• Display job results.

  You can 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.

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.

• 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 quick view to the Manage Material Coverage app by choosing Check Material Coverage.

• Open a quick view for the material.

• Open a quick view 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.

You can use this app to solve any coverage issues for your materials based on the settings you made in the Monitor Material Coverage app. To help you solve your material shortages, the system proposes different solutions. You can simulate the solution to preview its effects and you can apply the solution that best solves your issue.

Note

The system can only propose solutions for externally procured materials, not for materials produced in-house or materials required for direct production or direct procurement.

If you want to view the planning situation for one material only, you can also start the Manage Material Coverage app directly from the Check Material Coverage tile, which is also delivered by SAP.

Since this app provides detailed information and proposed solutions for specific materials or items, you first have to select which materials or items you want to manage. Therefore, no separate tile is delivered for this app. To access this app, you first have to start the Monitor Material Coverage app and make various settings to display only those items you want to monitor. After selecting one or more items in the list, you can navigate to the Manage Material Coverage app where you can solve your issues. If you save your personalized settings as a variant tile, you can access this app directly from your home page.

• View a list of your materials.

• View details of the stock/requirements situation as a table or as a chart.

• Choose a different shortage definition to check how the stock/requirements situation changes for the selected material.

• View an aggregated table in which the same MRP elements for the same day are aggregated into one line.

• View additional material information.

• Display, edit, and enter notes for the material.

• Choose an MRP element link to open a quick view with further details.

• Perform the MRP run at material level.

• Select a shortage to check the different solutions proposed by the system.

• Preview the effects of the proposed solutions as a table or as a chart.

• Choose a solution to apply the changes.

• Open the delivery schedule for materials with scheduling agreements and solve the shortage by creating or changing schedule lines or creating releases.

• Open a list of goods movements for a material from the delivery schedule and view additional material information.

• Contact your vendors to request changes to purchase orders and stock transport orders.

• View a list of open change requests for a material in a popup.

• Navigate to the Manage Change Requests app to place and manage your requests.

• Navigate to the Monitor Material Coverage app to get an overview of the shortages.

• Navigate to other apps to access further information or change material data.

• In addition, the app supports the following technical feature and option:

  If the order unit of a material is different from its base unit of measure (UoM), you can change the quantity of purchase orders and requisitions in the order unit. The system immediately shows you the quantity in the base UoM as well. You can access the dialog boxes for changing dates and quantities from the respective quick views and when applying solutions.

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.

• 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 dialog box for the materials and navigate to related apps.

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

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

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

• Open a dialog box 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.

Material staging refers to transferring material from the storage location where it currently resides to the production storage location. This can also be referred to as the "pull list". The pull list determines which components a production line needs and when and where these components must be available. The system assumes the components required for production have already been produced in-house or procured externally, and are now available to be transferred from their current storage location or bin to the production storage location. The pull list checks the stock situation at the production storage location and calculates the quantities of missing parts.

The Stage Materials for Production app enables you to execute material staging based on the following input information:

• Planned Orders
• Production/Process Orders
• Planned/Production/Process Orders
• Entry with BOM Explosion

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.

• Select a production order and a related production operation for processing.
• Record quantities for yield, scrap, or rework.
• Select a reason for variances from planned quantities.
• Get an overview of all materials used for the production operation.
• Edit a material used in the production operation, for example the storage location or the quantity to be confirmed.
• Consume materials from various batches and split quantities between batches.
• Add and confirm unplanned materials.
• Enter information on activities that have been defined for the work center, such as setup, machine, and labor times.
• Enter a note with additional information.
• Confirm the production operation partially or completely.

"Goods Movement" refers to the planning, entry, and documentation of stock movements such as goods receipts, goods issues, physical stock transfers, and transfer postings on a daily basis.

You can use the Post Goods Movement app to post the following goods movements:

• Goods receipts from external procurement
• Goods receipts for orders
• "Other" goods receipts
• Return deliveries and subsequent deliveries
• Goods issues
• Transfer postings and stock transfers
• Subsequent adjustment for subcontracting

With this app, you can display production orders. 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.

• Use search options on the initial screen to select the production order that you want to display.

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

• Check the header data of a production order, for example, the quantities, the dates and scheduling.

• Check the status of an order and the transaction statuses of the relevant business processes.

• Display the Operation Overview of an order to check the details of the operations. For example, you can check the status, the operation components, the PRTs, or the trigger points of operations.

• Display the components required for production in an order in the Component Overview and check the details and the status of the components.

• Display document links to documents in the Document Management System (DMS).

• Display the standard sequence of operations and parallel or alternative sequences for a production order in the Sequence Overview and check the details of sequences.

After the production order is released, the order is ready for picking. Only the materials that are not in the service stock at the assembly aisle are to be picked. You can use the Pick Components for Production Orders all to call up the correct picking list based on the production order number.

You can use the Post Goods Movement app to post the following goods movements:

• Goods receipts from external procurement
• Goods receipts for orders
• "Other" goods receipts
• Return deliveries and subsequent deliveries
• Goods issues
• Transfer postings and stock transfers
• Subsequent adjustment for subcontracting

With this app, you can display a list of material document items and display the material document details of a selected material document item. In addition, you can reverse a material document. This app supports you as a warehouse clerk in your daily work.

• Display a list of material document items.

• Display the material document details of a selected material document item.

• Display the process flow for a material document with the relevant preceding document and follow-on document.

• Get an overview of material documents such as goods issue, goods receipt, and material movements with the following date, such as: Document date, movement type (for example, goods issue for delivery), documents items.

  Note

  With the stock change type (for example, stock decrease), you specify the kind of material document you want to search for on a specific organizational level. Depending on the stock change type you specify, you can select further filter criteria:

  • Add attachments to the material document.
  • Determine forms of output for a material document, such as print output or electronic data interchange (EDI).
  • Reverse a selected material document.

Key users can use the Custom Fields and Logic app to create custom UI elements (fields) for the following business context:

Key users can also use the Custom Fields and Logic app to implement business logic (BAdI) enhancements for the following business context:

With this app, you can compare actual scrap figures recorded in the production confirmations with the expected scrap that was defined in the material. It allows you to implement a feedback loop for updating the expected scrap percentage in the material. The app shows the materials where the expected scrap percentage most differs from the actual scrap percentage.

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