Introducing Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management (2RU)

1. Navigate to SAP Signavio Process Navigator.
2. Scroll down to the recently added solution scenarios and choose the SAP Best Practices for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition entry.
3. In the left area, choose the tab Solution process and select the business area entry Manufacturing.
4. In list on the right, search for the solution process of interest.
5. Select the solution process to view the details and the process flow and scroll down to the Accelerator section to access the test script.

Note

You can ignore the SAP Cloud ALM version of test scripts at this point.

The scope item covers production processes. The business part of the processes, including creation and confirmation of production or process order, are performed in the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system. The decentralized third-party warehouse management system runs processes required for the physical and logical goods movements. The two variants of the process include material staging to ensure that all needed components or raw materials are available for production, as well as the goods receipt of the finished goods after production confirmation. The first variant is without automatic backflush of the components and with the assumption that all involved storage locations are managed by third-party warehouse management solution. The other variant works with automatic backflush and the assumption of a centrally managed production storage.

The key process steps of Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management (2RU) include:

• Production order processing for semifinished products without automatic backflush of components - all storage locations managed by third-party WMS
  • Create and release production order
  • Stage materials
  • Execute on delivery in third-party WMS
  • Pick components for production
  • Confirm production order
  • Execute goods receipt in third-party WMS
• Production order processing for semifinished products with automatic backflush of components - production storage location is managed centrally
  • Create and release production order
  • Stage materials
  • Execute on delivery in third-party WMS
  • Confirm production order
  • Execute goods receipt in third-party WMS
• Process order processing for semifinished product without automatic backflush of components – and all storage locations managed by third-party WMS
  • Create process order
  • Pick components for process order
  • Check IDoc message and execute on delivery in WMS
  • Confirm process order for semifinished product
  • Post goods receipt for process order
  • Check IDoc message and execute on delivery in WMS
  • Check stock information

Note

This scope item is excluded from the default activation. This scope item is only relevant if you would like to integrate with self-operated warehouses implemented running on on-premise third-party warehouse management solutions. The scope item Third-Party Warehouse Management System Integration (1ZQ) is a prerequisite to 2RU.

The benefits of Production Order Processing with Third-Party Warehouse Management (2RU) include:

• Integrate existing third-party warehouse management systems to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition with asynchronous SOAP APIs or asynchronous IDoc technology
• Assist with sample processes and related communication arrangements