Order Change Management (OCM)
Exercise 10: Creating an Order with Master Data
Exercise Objectives
After completing this exercise, you will be able to:
• Explain routing and BOM selection
• Explain production versions in the production order
• Explain how master data is read
Business Example
As production manager, production scheduler, or supervisor, you generally create production orders on the basis of master data (routings, BOMs) that is created and maintained in the engineering and work scheduling departments at your company.
This is particularly the case when the production of materials and activities is of a repetitive nature. In this exercise you will be introduced to the selection types the SAP ECC component uses to search for valid master data for the production order.
Task:
1. Create an order with the following data:
Material R-F1##
Production plant 1000 Order type PP01 Total quantity 1 piece End date any
Scheduling type backwards Choose
ECC → LO → PP → Shop Floor Control → Order → Create → With Material
2. What is the explosion date of the BOM and the routing transferred to the production order?
Answer: __________________
Choose:
Goto → Header
Select the Master Data tab
3. Compare the explosion date with the basic dates of the production order.
Which date corresponds to the explosion date?
Answer: _____________________
Select the General tab page 4. Release the order and save it.
Order number: _____________________
Choose:
Functions → Release
5. In operation “0010”, change the routing of material “R-F1##”. In the operation, enter a minimum wait time of 10 minutes and save the change.
Choose:
ECC → Logistics → Production → Master Data → Routings → Routings→ Standard Routings → Change
Operation overview:
Select the operation.
Details→ Operation:
See the Interoperation times field group.
6. In your production order, execute the Read PP master data function.
Choose:
Functions → Read PP Master Data
Hint: A dialog box appears: Read PP Master Data
Here, you have the option of reading the routing or the BOM again and redetermining the explosion date.
Caution: The system resets the status of your production order to Created.
7. In your production order, ensure that the change was successful. Ensure that operation “0010” now contains a process-related wait time.
Continued on next page
Operation Overview:
Opeartion → Operation Details
Select the Interoperation times tab page 8. Save your order.
9. Create another order using the following data:
Material R-B4##
Production plant 1000
Order type PP01
Total quantity 1 piece
End date Any
Scheduling type Backwards
Choose:
ECC → Logistics → Production → Shop Floor Control → Order → Create → With Material
Hint: A dialog box appears: Select Production Version for Material R-B4## plant 1000.
You can use a production version to define fixed processes (routing and/or BOM alternatives) according to which production is to be carried out, when required.
In the next steps in the exercise, you should find out about the contents of the various production versions before you make a selection.
10. Check which production versions are maintained for the material master.
To check the versions, in the dialog box select the pushbutton.
Versions: overview
11. Display the detail data for the existing production versions and answer the following question:
To do so, in the dialog box select the Detail pushbutton
Why does the system only offer production version 0001 for selection for the production order?
Answer:
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
12. The order is to be created according to production version “0001”, which has been prepared in the material master.
In the Selection of Production Versions dialog box, choose the production version 0001 and press the Choose pushbutton.
13. Ensure that the production version used in the production order is correct.
Goto → Header
Select the Master Data tab 14. Save the order.
15. To change a production version later, use the Read PP master data function.
In your order, try to swap the original production version “0001” with the new production version “0002”.
Hint: You cannot do this because, as was explained above, the system only offers you version 0001.
Choose:
Functions → Read PP Master Data
Solution 10: Creating an Order with Master Data
Task:
1. Create an order with the following data:
Material R-F1##
Production plant 1000 Order type PP01 Total quantity 1 piece End date any
Scheduling type backwards Choose
ECC → LO → PP → Shop Floor Control → Order → Create → With Material
a) No answer required
2. What is the explosion date of the BOM and the routing transferred to the production order?
Answer: __________________
Choose:
Goto → Header Select the Master Data tab
a) Select the Master Data tab in the order header and read the explosion date.
3. Compare the explosion date with the basic dates of the production order.
Which date corresponds to the explosion date?
Answer: _____________________
Select the General tab page a) Answer: Basic start date 4. Release the order and save it.
Order number: _____________________
Choose:
Functions → Release a) No answer required
5. In operation “0010”, change the routing of material “R-F1##”. In the operation, enter a minimum wait time of 10 minutes and save the change.
Choose:
ECC → Logistics → Production → Master Data → Routings → Routings→ Standard Routings → Change
Operation overview:
Select the operation.
Details→ Operation:
See the Interoperation times field group.
a) No answer required
6. In your production order, execute the Read PP master data function.
Choose:
Functions → Read PP Master Data
Hint: A dialog box appears: Read PP Master Data
Here, you have the option of reading the routing or the BOM again and redetermining the explosion date.
Caution: The system resets the status of your production order to Created.
a) No answer required
7. In your production order, ensure that the change was successful. Ensure that operation “0010” now contains a process-related wait time.
Operation Overview:
Opeartion → Operation Details
Select the Interoperation times tab page a) No answer required
Continued on next page
8. Save your order.
a) No answer required
9. Create another order using the following data:
Material R-B4##
Production plant 1000
Order type PP01
Total quantity 1 piece
End date Any
Scheduling type Backwards
Choose:
ECC → Logistics → Production → Shop Floor Control → Order → Create → With Material
Hint: A dialog box appears: Select Production Version for Material R-B4## plant 1000.
You can use a production version to define fixed processes (routing and/or BOM alternatives) according to which production is to be carried out, when required.
In the next steps in the exercise, you should find out about the contents of the various production versions before you make a selection.
a) No answer required
10. Check which production versions are maintained for the material master.
To check the versions, in the dialog box select the pushbutton.
Versions: overview a) No answer required
11. Display the detail data for the existing production versions and answer the following question:
To do so, in the dialog box select the Detail pushbutton
Why does the system only offer production version 0001 for selection for the production order?
Answer:
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
a) This is the only production version that has a lot size range that includes the order quantity.
12. The order is to be created according to production version “0001”, which has been prepared in the material master.
In the Selection of Production Versions dialog box, choose the production version 0001 and press the Choose pushbutton.
a) No answer required
13. Ensure that the production version used in the production order is correct.
Goto → Header
Select the Master Data tab a) No answer required
14. Save the order.
a) No answer required
15. To change a production version later, use the Read PP master data function.
In your order, try to swap the original production version “0001” with the new production version “0002”.
Hint: You cannot do this because, as was explained above, the system only offers you version 0001.
Choose:
Functions → Read PP Master Data a) No answer required
Lesson Summary
You should now be able to:
• Define order types and order type-dependent parameters in Customizing
• Make the appropriate Customizing settings for master data selection
• Make the appropriate material master settings for master data selection
• Explain the master data selection process in different situations.