Configuring Production Supervisors and Production Scheduling Profiles for Process Manufacturing

The assignment of production supervisors to your process orders enables you to manage orders effectively. You can precisely select and process the process orders in your area of responsibility in reporting and mass processing.

Furthermore, by assigning production scheduling profiles, you can optimize and partially automate various processing steps in process order execution.   

You can assign a production supervisor and a production scheduling profile to the material masters of a product. When a process order is created with reference to the material, the production supervisor and the production scheduling profile are copied from the material master to the order.

You can also assign a production scheduling profile to a production supervisor. However, a production scheduling profile directly assigned in the material master of a product has a higher priority than a production scheduling profile assigned to the production supervisor: 

Production supervisors for process manufacturing are defined on plant level in the configuration activity, Define Production Supervisor for Process Manufacturing. 

As already mentioned, you can also assign a production scheduling profile to a production supervisor.  

If you assign a production supervisor in the master data of a product to which no production scheduling profile is explicitly assigned, the production scheduling profile assigned to the production supervisor is copied into the order when a process order is created. If a production scheduling profile is assigned directly in the material master, this profile is copied into the order and the profile assigned to the production supervisor is not considered. 

Production scheduling profiles for process manufacturing are defined on plant level in the configuration activity, Define Production Scheduling Profile for Process Manufacturing.

When you open the configuration activity, you first find an overview of all the entries that are already created, as shown in the previous figure. You can create new entries or display or change the details of already existing entries.

In a production scheduling profile, you can:

• Specify that certain business transactions or processes are to be carried out in parallel in a process order:
  • Order release at the time the order is created
  • Scheduling of the order when it is released
• Specify whether only partial quantities are to be confirmed at the time of an availability check
• Make various specifications in the area of batch management:
  • Automatic batch creation when an order is opened
  • Branching to batch classification when a batch is changed
  • Extended batch classification via Customer Function Call
  • Definition of a default date for the date of manufacture with possible offset
• Specify settings regarding transport:
  • Specify that only transport requirements are to be created if transport requirements can be generated for all the components of the operation
  • Specify that either the committed quantities or the required quantities are to be taken into account when transport requirements are generated
  • Specify that the creation of transport requirements is to take place automatically
• Specify that in the case of the confirmation:
  • No short quantities are to be updated
  • No excess quantities are to be updated
• Specify which order type is to be suggested depending on the business process

You can assign a production scheduling profile to a:

• Material (Work Scheduling screen in material master)
• Production supervisor

The assignment to a material takes a higher priority.

The production scheduling profile is adopted in the process order at the time that the order is opened.