Explaining Manufacturing Users in SAP S/4HANA PEO

To benefit from the features that SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for Production Engineering and Operations (PEO) provides, you must create and assign manufacturing users to the people using the product. All users need a manufacturing user, regardless of their role.

With SAP S/4HANA, a business user is defined as a natural person, who is represented by a business partner and a link to a user in the system. Business users interact with the software in the context of a business process, for example, in the role of a production engineer, a production supervisor, or a production operator. To create manufacturing users, you first have to create business partners that are then used as manufacturing users.

To be able to use the following SAP S/4HANA PEO applications, you must create a manufacturing user and assign it to default work center and plant. Use these steps:

• Assign Work: When assigning production operator to operation activities, the system displays a dialog box of all operators that have a corresponding manufacturing user-defined in the system and whose default work center is identical to the one defined for the operation activity.
• Manage Work Center Queue: To even open this application, the system must know the default work center assigned to the manufacturing user. The list of operations displayed in the application is filtered by the default work center to which the user is assigned. If the user is assigned to several work centers, the system initially shows the operations available in the default work center, but the user can switch the work center to display the operations of other work centers to which he is assigned.
• Manage Teams and Responsibilities.