Question:
The company that I'm with currently is implementing R3; we are working in an environment manufacturing domestic and commercial flooring.
I work within Planning and we are midway through working out methods for disseminating plans to the shop floor. We're using a combination of COOIS/CM21 to gauge then to apply capacity.
The problem is this: we have been told (indirectly) by a consultant (currently unavailable) that when we convert planned orders into production orders there is a setting that allows all sub levels relative to that order to be automatically converted also. Is that correct? If so, by what mechanism does this occur? We have planned resource within the department based on this strategy and need to verify. Any help gratefully appreciated.
Answer:
you have several ways to solve this problem.
1
Collective Conversion Online
Starting from the MRP node, choose Planned order ® Convert to purchase requisition ® Collective conversion.
The initial screen for the collective conversion of planned orders now appears.
Enter the MRP controller number and the plant.
Limit the selection further, if necessary, using the opening date and the procurement type.
Choose .
The system displays a list of all the planned orders that fulfill the selection criteria.
Select the required planned orders.
Choose Convert online or Do not convert online.
With Convert online, the system displays the screen for individual conversion once again before the conversion for each planned order and gives you the opportunity to edit it.
With Do not convert online, the system converts the planned orders selected directly into purchase requisitions.
If necessary information is missing for creating a purchase requisition, the system interrupts the conversion procedure and displays the screen for individual conversion. You can then add the missing data here. If you choose Enter, the system continues with the conversion.
To avoid the interruption of the conversion procedure, you can predefine default data for the purchase requisition. To do this, choose Goto ® Purchase requisition default data and enter the required data. This data applies to all purchase requisitions created in the conversion.
Collective Conversion as a Background Job
Collective conversion as a background job is particularly useful, if you have set the planning run so that purchase requisitions are created directly within the opening period and planned orders are created outside of the opening period. These planned orders must be converted into purchase requisitions on time. You can do this using conversion as a background job.
Starting from the MRP node, choose Planned order ® Convert to purchase requisition ® In background.
The display of available variants appears.
Choose Variants, and enter your variants.
Enter the necessary attributes for the variants.
Schedule the variants.
The system converts the planned orders into purchase requisitions automatically on the dates entered.
2 Collective Orders
Use
In a collective order, planned orders or production orders are linked to one another over several production levels. Each order in the collective order has its own order number. If subassemblies are produced directly for superior orders within a production process, without physically entering the warehouse, it is useful to have a representation via collective orders.
The components for which separate production orders are created in the collective order are called directly produced components (see Creating Collective Orders)
Prerequisites
A collective order cannot be created for components that have one of the following indicators set:
Co-product
By-product
Alternative item with strategy 2
Alternative item with usage probability 0
Discontinued
Follow-up material
Intra material
Features
Collective orders offer the following advantages:
Integrated view of a production process
Collective orders make it possible to represent different levels of the production process together in the system. The production process can be viewed as an integrated whole.
Separate order number for every order
Every level in a collective order represents a separate production order/planned order. Every production order/planned order has its own order number. This enables you to process the entire collective order, a subtree in the collective order or an individual order.
No placements in storage or removals from storage between production levels
Within a collective order stock movements only take place for the leading order (that is, the order that is at the highest production level) and not for directly produced components. This makes it easier to maintain the collective order in comparison with several individual orders. A further advantage is a more realistic representation of the costs of the production process, since subordinate orders can be directly assigned and settled to superior orders.
Business functions simultaneously for several orders
Certain business transactions can be carried out simultaneously for several orders. Releasing an order that belongs to a collective order has the effect that all the hierarchically subordinate orders are released simultaneously.
Automatic change to dependent orders
Changes to an order automatically affect dependent orders / components affecting orders. For example, if you change the order quantity in an order then
the relevant quantity changes are automatically made to dependent orders
the requirements quantity of the directly produced component is automatically changed.
In the collective order, you also have the option of manufacturing directly produced material in a different plant to the planning plant.
Set status in leading order
If you make changes in subordinate orders that have an affect on the status, then the system sets the corresponding status in the order header of the leading order in the collective order as follows:
CFCO Confirmation in collective order
GMCO Goods movements in collective order
RLNE Release taken place in network
In this way you are informed about changes in the whole collective order.
Reading master data
You can copy the routing data and BOM data to the order again. You can find more information in Read master data.
Example
You want to produce a pump. The BOM for the pump contains a pressure regulating valve and a spiral casing. You want to enter these two components in separate production orders, but you do not want them to be posted to stock.
You set the special procurement type to direct production in the material master record for the pressure regulating valve and the spiral casing, so that production occurs using a collective order.
When you create a production order for the pump, a collective order is automatically created, which contains subordinate production orders for the pressure regulating valve and the spiral casing.
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