Additional Functions in TO Processing
Unit Overview
This unit provides an overview of the options during planned data entry and actual data entry and the transfer order split.
Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, you will be able to:
• Define a profile for determining the planned times and entering the actual data during the creation of the transfer order
• Maintain all necessary data for determining the planned time • Define a split profile for the transfer order split
Unit Contents
Lesson: Determining the Planned Data and Entering the Actual Data ... 54 Lesson: Transfer Order Split ... 59
Lesson: Determining the Planned Data and Entering the
Actual Data
Lesson Overview
This lesson explains the principles of determining the planned time during the creation of the transfer order and the entry of the actual data during the confirmation of the transfer order.
Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
• Define a profile for determining the planned times and entering the actual data during the creation of the transfer order
• Maintain all necessary data for determining the planned time
Business Example
You will enter the actual time required to process a transfer order once it is complete. In the meantime and so that you can respond quickly to any problems that may occur, you use past figures and the planned time to calculate the approximate time required for transfer order processing. You will therefore be able to compare the planned time and the actual time. In the future, employees will also enter their personnel numbers during transfer order confirmation to allow for specific queries.
Determining the Planned Time
Figure 16: Example: Goods Receipt
In a warehouse number, you can use assign a performance data profile to certain goods movements and the storage types that are involved to control the determination of the planned times and the entry of the actual data. If you intend to enter the actual data after the determination of the planned times (during the confirmation of the transfer order), you can compare the planned time and the actual time taken for a specific process. Planned data and actual data are both updated at transfer order header level. If you intend to calculate the planned time for a certain operation, the planned time for this item is also determined at item level. The actual data is only updated at header level because it is usually whole transfer orders rather than individual items that are cinformed. You can also enter the personnel number of the warehouse worker as well as the actual time required.
Figure 17: Calculation of the Planned Time
The planned processing time in the transfer order header is the processing time that the system calculates for the entire transfer order. The planned transfer order processing time references the time unit (for example, minutes or seconds) that is calculated for the warehouse number. This is the total of the planned processing times for the transfer order items and the setup and travel times of the storage types that are involved.
TIME(WM) = SUM[PLANNED(ITEM)] + PLANNED(SETUP) + PLANNED(TRAVEL TIME)
The setup time and travel time can be determined only once at header level. An implicit transfer order split may therefore occur if there are several transfer order items with different destination storage types or source storage types that contain different parameters.
The planned processing time for the transfer order item is calculated from a constant processing time. Example: the planned setup time for the stock removal process for a transfer order item plus the quantity dependent or variable processing time (for example, the processing time required to pick 10 cartons from a storage bin). The formula is:
PLANNED(ITEM) = PLANNED(CONSTANT) + PLANNED(VARIABLE) The values for calculating the planned time at item level are stored in the maintain warehouse workload table.
As well as determining the planned time, you can use the performance data profile to control whether it is necessary to specify the actual time and the personnel number during the confirmation of the transfer order.
Actual Data in the Transfer Order
• Processor, actual processing time • Kept in the transfer order header • Separate confirmation dialog
– Confirmation of individual transfer orders by processor
– Confirmation of transfer orders by central personnel (rapid creation) – Correction dialog for users with special authorization
– Customized data entry
Actual data is the actual information about the processing of a transfer order. This data includes the personnel number of the worker and the actual time or the stop and start times. The data is stored in the transfer order header.
An indicator in the transfer order controls whether it is necessary to enter the actual time for a transfer order and what format this must take during the entry of performed activities. This indicator also controls which dialog box is displayed. Depending on the settings you choose, the system displays the fields that are relevant for data entry. Afterwards, you can use transaction LT1A to correct the data in the transfer order.
The actual data can be used in different ways. For example, you can use the assignment of an employee to a transfer order to check the execution of the transfer order. Because you can change the actual data at a later date, you can also enter the completed work as statistical information for transfer orders that do not require confirmation. It could also be used to determine incentive wages.
Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
• Define a profile for determining the planned times and entering the actual data during the creation of the transfer order
Lesson: Transfer Order Split
Lesson Overview
This lesson describes the configuration of a split profile and its effects on the creation of the transfer order.
Lesson Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to: • Define a split profile for the transfer order split
Business Example
By default, outbound deliveries are picked using a transfer order for each outbound delivery. This may mean that some transfer orders are created that contain too many items for an employee. To distribute the workload in the warehouse more evenly, you use a split profile to divide the transfer order into several smaller transfer orders.
Transfer Order Split
Figure 18: Split Criteria
Transfer orders can be split to achieve an even distribution of the workload in the warehouse. The system first creates an “internal” transfer order which references the request document (delivery/transfer requirement/posting change notice). According to the split profile that is assigned to this movement, the transfer order may be divided into several smaller transfer orders. The assignment of the split
record. This method orders the storage bins in a path sequence that is optimal. If you use picking areas, you can split the transfer order according to a picking area with optimal paths. Other standard split criteria include parameter limits according to weight, volume or planned time. If different criteria are required for the transfer order split, use SAP enhancement MWMTO012. You can use this enhancement to make any field of the transfer order a criterion for a transfer order split.
The application also allows you to sort the contents of the transfer order (by assigning a sort profile to the split profile, you can order the items in the sequence you require without actually performing a split).
Figure 19: Transfer Order Split
In addition to the split profile, there are also criteria which which lead to an automatic split. These split criteria generate a transfer order split automatically, even if a split profile is not defined. Examples of these split criteria include different header parameters when the planned time is determined and a change of queue when mobile data entry is used with queue management. Each handling units generates a separate transfer order during inbound delivery processing.
Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
Unit Summary
You should now be able to:
• Define a profile for determining the planned times and entering the actual data during the creation of the transfer order
• Maintain all necessary data for determining the planned time • Define a split profile for the transfer order split