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Understanding Process Steps and Business Roles for Make-to-Order Production – Semifinished Goods Planning and Assembly (1BM)

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Define process steps for make-to-order production – semifinished goods planning and assembly (1BM)
Identify business roles for make-to-order production – semifinished goods planning and assembly (1BM)

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

Applicable Process Steps

Anonymous Forecast and Material Requirements Planning for Semifinished Product

Process Step	Description
Create Planned Independent Requirements	Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) are used to perform demand management functions. A planned independent requirement contains one planned quantity and one date, or a number of planned independent requirements schedule lines, meaning, one planned quantity is split over time according to dates. Instead of creating a single requirement, sometimes a requirement plan that includes one or more planned independent requirements can be maintained for mass processing. In this case, the requirements are grouped and maintained under a requirement plan number.
Material Requirements Planning	This process step shows you how to use Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to tailor available capacities and receipts on time to suit requirements quantities.
Monitor Material Coverage	This process step shows you how to display the stock and requirements situation for the semifinished product in the stock and requirements list after the requirements planning performed.

Process Step

Description

Create Planned Independent Requirements

Planned Independent Requirements (PIR) are used to perform demand management functions. A planned independent requirement contains one planned quantity and one date, or a number of planned independent requirements schedule lines, meaning, one planned quantity is split over time according to dates.

Instead of creating a single requirement, sometimes a requirement plan that includes one or more planned independent requirements can be maintained for mass processing. In this case, the requirements are grouped and maintained under a requirement plan number.

Material Requirements Planning

This process step shows you how to use Material Requirements Planning (MRP) to tailor available capacities and receipts on time to suit requirements quantities.

Monitor Material Coverage

This process step shows you how to display the stock and requirements situation for the semifinished product in the stock and requirements list after the requirements planning performed.

Production Order Processing for Semifinished Product

Process Step	Description
Create Production Order	This process step shows you how to create a production order. The MRP run creates planned orders that will be produced internally. When the planned opening date reaches, the planned orders are converted to production orders.
Release Production Order with Output Setting	This process step shows you how to releases the order and all its operations at order header level. The order and the operations receive the status REL (released). You can also release a production order in create and change modes.
Preview Output Document for Production Order	You preview the production order PDF document in this step.
Confirm Production Order for Semifinished Product	The confirmation documents include the processing status of orders, operations, suboperations. It is an instrument for controlling orders. Here you have to confirm the operations of the production order for the semi-finished material. When you confirm the last operation, the system generates a goods movement document for the material. The backflush is carried out together with the confirmation steps. The confirmation the goods receipt for the material will also be executed automatically.
Review Production Order for Semifinished Product	This process step shows you how to display and check the order using the app Monitor Production Orders for the material after the release or confirmation of finished goods orders is performed.

Sales Order Processing for Finished Products

Process Step	Description
Create Sales Order for Finished Product	This process step shows you how to create a sales order for a material that the customer requires.
Monitor Material Coverage for Semifinished Product	In this step, you can note down the PIR of the material before the MRP run. MRP generates dependent requirements for the material, which consumes the PIR.
Material Requirements Planning for Finished Product	This process step shows you how to start the MRP run for the sales order you created in a previous step.
Monitor Material Coverage for Semifinished and Finished Product	This process step shows you how to monitor dependent requirements of the material generated by MRP. If you compare the current PIR with the PIR you noted down in a previous step, you will find the PIR is consumed by the dependent requirement.
Review Manufacturing Object Pages	This process step shows you how to review different object pages available for different roles in Manufacturing area.

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

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Access to business applications is controlled by role-based authorization management. You assign Business Roles to Business Users, and the roles provide access to business tasks. Business Users are defined as employees, contractors, or other individuals that need access to the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system.

How to find Business Roles for a scope item

Navigate to https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/BP_CLD_ENTPR.
Select your country localization from the Version drop-down list.
In the Solution Scope section, expand the relevant scope item group.
Select a scope item.
Download the test script.
Navigate to the Roles section of the test script.

A Business Role is assigned to a Business User to grant permission to access applications in SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition.

One or more Business Catalogs have been assigned to a Business Role. Business Catalogs include access to one or more applications, dashboards, or displays of data.

Administrators can control visibility to the data granted through the catalog by applying General Restrictions to Business Catalogs. By maintaining access restrictions, you can define the subset of all existing business objects a user can view (read) or edit (write) when working with a particular business role.

The Business Catalog defines which access categories are available (Value Help, Read, Write), and for which fields restriction values can be maintained. The fields vary per catalog, as they are based on the fields within the apps in the catalog. The Business Role aggregates restrictions for all Business Catalogs.

Administrators define a restriction based on a supported field (for example, company code, country, controlling area, and so on). Supported restriction fields vary per Business Catalog, as they are based on the fields within the apps in the catalog. You can restrict data access for the Value Help, Read, and Write separately. Read access always includes Value Help access, and Write access always includes Read access.

How to identify the Business Catalog(s) mapped to a Business Role and the Fiori application(s) mapped to a Business Catalog:

Log into the SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition system.
Select the Manage Business Roles application from the Launchpad.
Select a Business Role.
Select the Assigned Business Catalogs tab to view the standard Business Catalogs assigned to the standard Business Role.
Select a Business Catalog.
Select the Catalog Description tab to view the Functional Description, Authorization Criteria, and Associated Catalogs information.
Select the Applications tab to view the Fiori apps mapped to the Business Catalog.

Note

Please do not edit SAP Standard Business Roles directly. To customize Business Roles, always make a copy of the SAP Standard Business Role or use the option Create From Template in the Maintain Business Roles application.

To apply General Restrictions, an Administrator should first make a copy of the SAP Standard Business Role, or create a new role based on the SAP Standard Business Role Template. For example, if you need to restrict access in the Accounts Payable Accountant Business Role for some users to only Company Code 1710 (United States), and for some users to only Company Code 1010 (Germany), you will create two new Business Roles based on the SAP Standard Accounts Payable Accountant role. You should name the roles accordingly (for example, Accounts Payable Accountant_1710). In the first business role, you will edit the role and maintain the restriction value(s) for the entire Business Role (that is, define the Company Code field = 1710). Then, you may edit the individual business catalogs within the role and define the access category (that is, Value Help, Read, Write) as Restricted. When you create a new Business Role, the Read access is set to Unrestricted and Write access is set to No Access by default. When an access category is Restricted, you must select a specific field value (for example, Company Code = 1710) or grant unrestricted access. If you leave fields empty within a business catalog, a user will be assigned No Access to the field in the business catalog's granted apps.

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