Exploring SAP Fiori Applications for Integration of SAP Manufacturing Execution to Production Operation (2JN)

• Maintain PIRs (F3445) SAP Fiori App
• Schedule MRP Runs (F1339) SAP Fiori App
• Monitor Material Coverage - Net Segments (F0247A) SAP Fiori App
• Manage Material Coverage (F0251) SAP Fiori App
• Manage Production Orders (F2336) SAP Fiori App
• Stage Materials for Production (MF60) SAP GUI App
• Manage Production Operations (F2335) SAP Fiori App
• Display Production Order (CO03) SAP GUI App
• Material Documents Overview (F1077) SAP Fiori App

You can use the Maintain PIRs app to create and monitor planned independent requirements (PIRs) of materials in months or weeks. The information can be used to negotiate rates with your suppliers and, as a result, reduce costs. PIRs are used 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.

The Maintain PIRs app helps you detect forecasting errors early in the process so you can produce or purchase sufficient quantities of material to cover future sales demands on-time. The forecast period indicator is defined in the material master.

Note

The Maintain PIRs 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 - you can process materials either in months or weeks for up to 12 months or 52 weeks. You can also adjust the period within which you want to process the PIRs.
• Use Microsoft Excel files using the comma-separated value file format (.csv) to maintain PIRs.

During the MRP run, the system checks whether current material demand can be covered by current inventory and expected material receipts. In a regenerative MRP run, the system plans all materials irrespective of whether they have been changed since the last MRP run. In a net change MRP run, the system only includes materials that have been changed since the last planning run in the new planning run. If current demand is not covered, the system creates purchase requisitions.

You can use this app to create and schedule a job for executing your MRP runs. To automate the planning process, the MRP run has to be carried out on a regular basis so you can use this app to create a job that performs this task for you; reducing your workload by running this task smoothly in the background.

You can perform the following tasks if the role Production Planning - MRP Runs is assigned to your user:

• Create and schedule jobs for your MRP runs. You can define:
  • The description, start date, start time, and recurrence of the MRP run.
  • Specific control parameters for the MRP run.
  • The planning scope of the MRP run.
• Monitor the jobs and display information on the status, planned start, end, and duration, for example. In the Job Details  screen you can display a log with information on the planning run.
• Cancel the job.

The Monitor Material Coverage - Net Segments app enables you to monitor all the make-to-stock and collective requirements materials in a selected area of responsibility (AOR). You are provided with a list of all materials with net requirements segments that might have coverage issues according to a specified shortage definition. The shortage definitions contain 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 filter Time till Shortage to check the coverage of materials within a specific time frame.

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. You can choose from the following shortage definitions:
  • MRP Standard
    • Represents the standard MRP logic
    • Use this option to compare all supplies with all demands.
  • Stock Days' Supply
    • Calculates the stock days' supply
    • Use this option to compare available stock with planned demands.
  • Ordered Requirements

    Calculates whether you have sufficient planned receipts (supplies) to cover your ordered demands (requirements)

  • Ordered Receipts

    Calculates whether you have ordered enough receipts (supplies) to cover your planned demands (requirements)

• 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
• Perform the MRP run at material level
• 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

Key users can use the Custom Fields and Logic app to create custom fields in the following business contexts:

• Master Data: Product General
• Master Data: Product Plant

Using the Adapt UI runtime authoring mode, key users can add custom fields for the Materials (Worklist) UI element in the relevant business contexts.

The Manage Material Coverage app enables you to solve any coverage issues for your materials based on the settings made in the Monitor Material Coverage app. This app shows you the net requirements segment, individual customer segments, as well as direct procurement segments that exist for each material. 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, but not for materials produced in-house or materials required for direct procurement. In addition, scheduling agreements are not supported by the proposed solutions. Instead, you have to manually change a schedule line or create a new one.

Since this Manage 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 Manage app. To access the Manage Material Coverage 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 app where you can solve your issues. If you save your personalized settings as a variant tile, you can access this Manage app directly from your home page.

Note

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.

• 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.
• Create purchase requisitions, stock transport requisitions, planned orders, or schedule lines of scheduling agreements.
• Perform the rescheduling check and, depending on the execution message, execute different actions.
• 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.
• Click on an MRP element link to open a quick view with further details.
• Hand over, edit, convert, or delete MRP elements if applicable.
• 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.

Note

If the order unit of a material is different from its base unit of measure (base 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 popups for changing dates and quantities from the respective quick views and when applying solutions.

The Manage Material Coverage app uses the situation handling framework to alert users of tasks that need their attention.

The MRP Material Exceptions (SAP_PP_MRP_MATERIAL_EXCEPTION) template is used to inform specific members of the materials requirements planning organization about exception messages that occurred during the MRP run for purchase orders or production orders that are no longer needed.

For example, you want your material or production planner to be informed automatically when a purchase order or a production order is no longer required because the sales order gets canceled. With this information, he or she can ensure that material availability meets the external and internal requirements without exceeding the stock limits. This means a reduction in costs because the material or production planner is notified about materials that are no longer needed and so they are no longer produced or bought.

The Manage Production Orders app enables you to monitor the progress of production with an overview of the current situation and the information you need to solve any issues. For example, if a particular order is delayed, you can navigate to the details area to see the reason for the delay (for example, missing components or quantity deviation). You can use the information available in this app to take immediate action to resolve issues and keep the 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 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.
• Display configuration of the material being produced.
• Release production orders in status Created.
• Read master data for production orders in status Created.
• Access a detail screen for each production order.
• Navigate to related apps to solve issues.
• If the extended material number has been activated in your back-end system, it automatically displays in the Material field in this app.

The Stage Materials for Production app is based on the SAP transaction MF60, classified in the Production Planning and Control module under the application component Repetitive Manufacturing. You can search for a production order, view the replenishment elements for the order, and choose a storage location for the materials in the pull list to be transferred to.

• Search for a production order
• View replenishment elements
• Maintain data total staged quantity
• Maintain data for replenishment elements

The Manage Production Operations app enables you to monitor the progress of production with an overview of the current situation and all the information you need to solve any issues. For example, if a particular operation is delayed, you can navigate to the details to see why the operation is delayed (e.g. missing components, previous operation 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.

Note

You may need additional authorization to be able to navigate to and execute related apps.

• 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.

Note

If the extended material number has been activated in your back-end system, it automatically displays in the Material field in this app.

The Display Production Order application is based on SAP transaction CO03, which enables you to display production orders. SAP transaction CO03 is classified in the Production Planning and Control module under application component Production Order. On the initial screen, you can search for a production order. The following screen displays detailed information about the production order, such as the operations, components, documents, sequences, and stock/requirements list. In addition, the system generates a serial number for each finished good when the production order is released. The serial number can be found in the Display Production Order app.

• Search for production orders
• Display production order detailed information
• Users with permission can review and check production orders

The Material Documents Overview app enables you to view a list of material document items and the material document details of a selected item. You can also reverse a material document.

• Get an overview of material documents such as goods issue, goods receipt, and material movements with the following information, for example:
  • Document date
  • Movement type, for example, goods issue for delivery
  • Document items
    Note

    With the stock change type (for example, stock decrease), you specify for which kind of material document on a specific organizational level you want to search. Depending on the stock change type you choose, you can select further filter criteria.
• Display a list of material document items. You can search for accounting information (G/L account or cost center) in material documents with multiple account assignments of the valuated goods receipt.
  Note

  For non-valuated goods receipts the account assignment is not stored on a material document item level. Therefore, neither the material document nor the material documents overview displays the account assignments for non-valuated postings
• Display a goods receipt (material document) that references a scheduling agreement.
• Display the process flow for a material document with the relevant preceding document and follow-on document.
• Add attachments to the material document.
• Determine the type of output for a material document, such as print or electronic data interchange (EDI).
  Note

  SAP provides predefined output forms in output management, such as collection slips. You can copy and adapt these forms for your needs. Keep in mind that your settings can affect the formatting of the output forms and lead to potential issues (e.g. unwanted line breaks). SAP recommends that you check your settings and adjust them if necessary
• Reverse or partially reverse a selected material document.
• Display the details of a selected material document item (for example, single or multiple account assignments).
• Note

  The app supports several movement types for different business processes. Your personal authorizations are based on your business role. If movement types are missing for your task or you have restricted authorizations for a movement type, contact your administrator.
• This app also supports:
  • Export the result list to a spreadsheet.
  • Send a link to the material document details by e-mail.
  • Share comments on a material document through SAP Jam.
  • SAP Conversational AI, the digital assistant for SAP S/4HANA.

Key users can use the Custom Fields and Logic app to create custom fields in the following business context:

Coding Block

Using the Adapt UI runtime authoring mode, key users can add custom fields for the following UI elements in the Coding Block business context:

• Filter criterion (item)
• Material document item

Key users can implement business logic with the Custom Fields and Logic app for the following enhancement options in the Coding Block business context:

• Find Material Document Items
• Material Document Items
• Material Document Items (Display)

Key users can create data source extensions with the Custom Fields and Logic app for the following business contexts:

• Master Data: Product General
• Master Data: Product Plant
• Master Data: Batch

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