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Understanding Process Steps and Business Roles for Make-to-Stock Production – Discrete Manufacturing (BJ5)

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Define process steps for make-to-stock production – discrete manufacturing (BJ5)
Identify business roles for make-to-stock production – discrete manufacturing (BJ5)

Process Steps for Make-to-Stock Production – Discrete Manufacturing (BJ5)

Applicable Process Steps

Process Step	Description
Create Planned Independent Requirements	Planned independent requirements 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, such as one planned quantity split over time according to dates. Instead of creating a single requirement, sometimes a requirements 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 at Plant Level	This process step shows you how to use material requirement planning to tailor available capacities and receipts on time to suit requirement quantities. You can use MRP or consumption-based planning for this purpose.
Evaluate Stock/Requirements Situation	This process step shows you how to display the stock/requirements situation for the material in the stock/requirements list after the requirement planning has been performed.
Conversion to Production Orders for Subassembly and Final Assembly	The daily MRP run creates planned orders for goods that are to be produced internally. This process step shows you how to convert the planned orders to production orders for both semifinished goods and finished goods when the planned opening date is reached.
Review Material Availability Status for Production Orders	You review the material availability status for production orders in this step.
Material Staging for Subassembly	This process step shows you how to stage materials for production. If there is sufficient stock available on the production storage location no line items are generated.
Release Production Order for Subassembly	This process step shows you how to release the order at header level, releases the order and all its operations. The order and the operations receive the REL (released) status.
Confirm Production Operations for Subassembly	The confirmation documents the processing status of orders, operations, sub-operations, and individual capacities. It is an instrument for controlling orders. This process step shows you how to confirm the operations of the production order for the 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.
Post Goods Receipt for Subassembly Production Order	This process step shows you how to post the goods receipt for the production order.
Material Staging for Final Assembly	This process step shows you how to stage materials for production. If there is sufficient stock available in the production storage location, no line items are generated.
Release Production Order for Final Assembly	A release at order operation level results in the order and all its operations being released. The order and the operations receive the REL (released) status.
Check Serial Numbers	The Finished Good material is managed with serial numbers. The system generates a serial number for each finished good when the production order is released. This process step shows you how to check the serial numbers.
Pick Components for Final Assembly	This process step shows you how to pick the released production order. Only those materials that are not in the service stock at the assembly aisle are to be picked. For picking, the warehouse manager selects the specific picking list that can be called up directly with the production order number. The warehouse manager has a series of further selection options to allow for optimal worklist selection.
Confirm Production Operations for Final Assembly	The confirmation documents the processing status of orders, operations, sub-operations, and individual capacities. It is an instrument for controlling orders. This process step shows you how to use time event confirmation.
Review Production Order	After the release or confirm of finished goods orders is performed, the production supervisor could display and check the order for the material.
Final Confirmation of Production Operations for Final Assembly	In the common business practices, confirmations of all assembly activities of the production order are executed before posting the goods receipt. The backflush is carried out together with the confirmation steps.
Post Goods Receipt for Final Assembly Production Order	This process step shows you how to post the goods receipt for the production order.
Preview Goods Receipt Slip and Label (Optional)	This process step shows you how to preview the material document.
Review Scrap Report	This process step shows you how to review the scrap report.
Review Manufacturing Object Pages	This process step shows you how to review different object pages available for different roles in the Manufacturing area.

Business Roles for Make-to-Stock Production – Discrete Manufacturing (BJ5)

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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, an 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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