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APO-MD-PPM: Enhancements in the Production Process Model ( RELNAPO_30A_SP1_MD_PPM )

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APO-MD-PPM: Enhancements in the Production Process Model

New Structure of APO Initial Menu

The master data path has changed due to the conversion of the APO menu. You previously chose Navigation Master Data Production Process Model in the SAP Easy Access Menu. As of Release 3.0A, (First Customer Shipment and Support Package 1), you choose Master Data Production Process Model directly in this menu.

With the exception of purely APO master data, you can now maintain master data for the various applications included in APO under Master Data. This restructuring means that master data maintenance is no longer possible within the individual submenus of the APO applications.

Enhancements in PPM Master Data

In addition to the now updated tabular PPM maintenance view, there is also a graphical view and a tree structure which gives you an overview of the maintained components of a PPM plan as of Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1).

Maintenance has also been enhanced by the addition of several new fields.

Use

Initial Screen

Plan: This new subarea includes fields which were already available prior to Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1) in which the new structure of the Plan subscreen has been incorporated:

All plans: You can select a PPM plan in the field Plan number from a list of all existing plans using the input help (F4).

Selecting a plan using the PPM: Here you can select a location and/or a product. The input help (F4) for the field Plan number in this area displays a list of all the PPM plans maintained for these products or locations.

This enables you to restrict the number of PPM plans and to easily recognize whether plans exist in this selection area.

Use: This field is not new, but has been enhanced by two usage types for this Release: T (PPM Trim Optimizing) and D (BOM Demand Planning).

Display: You can choose the following information in this new subarea:

Work area: Shows the quantity of products and resources you want to have at your disposal on the tabs Products or Resources in the tree structure view as a worklist for maintaining the PPM plan.

In PPM maintenance, you can define, change, or delete PPMs.

You define and maintain work areas in the maintenance function for the plan. You can create your own user-specific work area by defining your own work area without a name. The system uses this user-specific work area if you do not specify a work area in the maintenance function for the plan in the initial screen.

Logical view: This view refers to the graphical view in PPM maintenance. You can define various graphical views using the button Edit work area and logical view, or by means of the menu path Edit Logical view. You can select the defined views using the input help (F4) in the initial screen in order to work with a certain graphical symbol alignment in the logical view.

The field Logical view in the initial screen can also be left empty. In this case, the system uses the standard arrangement (default).

Automatic alignment: If you have performed certain settings using the button of the same name in the initial screen, you can activate these settings by setting the indicator Automatic alignment. Doing so aligns the objects accordingly in the graphical view when you call up the maintenance of the PPM plan.

Setting: Define certain settings for the automatic alignment of the graphical view using this button. You can reset the existing default values within this maintenance area using the button Standard settings.

Options:

Multiple display: You can display those components of a PPM plan that you use more than once in two different ways:

If the indicator Multiple display is not set: The resource is only listed once in the graphical view and displayed by the assignment of relationships
If the indicator Multiple display is set: The resource is displayed as a symbol in the graphical view at all the locations to which it is assigned

Setting the indicator can improve clarity.

Display hierarchy: Products and resources can exist as hierarchy components. The system shows whether this is the case if the indicator has been set in the tree structure.

Tabular Maintenance of PPM:

The maintenance of the PPM has been enhanced by improvements to the graphical maintenance (logical view) and the tree structure, and its tabular maintenance has also been reworked. The following new features have been developed for tabular maintenance as of Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1):

You can reach the next level of PPM maintenance from each screen in which you enter data by means of a double click, or by using the corresponding button. As of Release 3.0A, you can easily see what you have maintained for the PPM plan you are currently processing in the header area of these screens. This area is adjusted with every screen:

Header: Plan number (copied from the initial screen)

Subareas: Single and multi-level costs, characteristics

Tabular maintenance: Create operations

Header: Operation (copied from previous screen, basic data (plan number)

Subareas: Setup specifications, PI information, characteristics

Tabular maintenance: Activities

Header: Activity (copied from previous screen, basic data (plan number, operation number), further specifications for activity

Subareas: Characteristics

Maintenance: Components, modes

Header: Logical component (copied from previous screen), basic data (plan number, operation number, activity), further specifications for logical component

Subareas: Characteristics

Tabular maintenance: Alternative components

Header: Alternative components (copied from previous screen), basic data (plan number, operation number, activity, logical component)

Subareas: Prevention of product explosion, validity, material consumption

Additional New Features in PPM Maintenance

Simple display/ Extended display: Click on a node in the tree structure or a symbol of the graphical view with the right mouse button to select whether you want to see only the header in PPM maintenance in the tabular part (simple display) or if you also want to see the maintenance tables (extended display).

Costs: Costs were maintained by means of a button prior to Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1). You can now enter costs directly in the first PPM maintenance screen.

Costs in Supply Network Planning: You can select a certain profile or create a new one using the button Maintenance in the PPM with usage S (Supply Network Planning) or D (BOM Demand Planning).

Change information: In the first PPM maintenance screen, you can see which user created the PPM plan, and who last changed it. This information is displayed with name and date.

Characteristics: These are available on every PPM maintenance screen for the maintained PPM component. Prior to this, you had to branch to characteristics maintenance. You can obtain a complete overview of the characteristics using Goto Characteristics propagation Overview.

To maintain a characteristic, select the button Characteristic maintenance. If characteristics already exist, the triangle on this button is green rather than white. The description of the button changes to Characteristic active.

Procurement priority: To display the maintenance view, press the button Product plan assignment. You can perform such assignments here. The field Priority that defines the selection of the source of supply is new in this maintenance. You can specify the priority for a source of supply at this point using a number of your choice. The lower the specified the number, the higher priority. Sources of supply may include: PPM, iPPE, or external procurement.

Predecessor/Successor activity relationships: New for Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1) are the tabs Predecessor and Successor, on which you can maintain all relevant data for these relationships. You branch to this maintenance view by means of the button Activity relationships which is located in the header area of PPM maintenance after you have maintained the activity data.

Synchronization of activities: By setting this indicator, you switch off the synchronization of activities set for a multiresource that are maintained in the resource master. The indicator is located in the area of the header data for the activity. The synchronization is no longer valid for all the resources maintained for this activity.

Bucket requirements for mixed resources: You can maintain the fixed and variable bucket requirements and the corresponding unit of measure for release 3.0A (FCS + SP1). Branch to the resource maintenance from the corresponding row of the mode maintenance by means of a double click where you can maintain the bucket requirements mentioned above.

Material consumption: This consumption is located in the cost data maintenance area for the logical component. As of Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1), you can maintain an offset and a duration for material consumption. The offset defines the starting time of the material consumption with reference to the start or end of an activity.

Unit of measurement for material consumption: This field is ready for input as of Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1).

·,,Output product: As of Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1), you no longer have to create a PPM for each output product for each PPM plan. This is because the products are by-products that arise during the production run but are not to be utilized on completion of the process 8for example, sewage), rather than useful end products. You cannot explicitly schedule these products as no PPM is to be created for these products, you can only include them in a schedule process.

Effects on Data Transfer

Recipe transfer (process industry): The significance of this operation has been extended for Release 3.0A (FCS + SP1). The phase andsecondary resource are transferred as a single operation with an activity for PP-PI. The activities of all phases of a PP-PI operation have Start/End relationships. The logic of relationships has not been changed, as each PP-PI phase is also an activity. There are two new fields that must be maintained for the operation:

Operation category: The extended meaning of the PP and PP-PI operation is made known to the user by means of the new field Operation category.

You can select the following operation categories using the F1 help:
0 = PP operation
1 = PI operation
2 = PI phase
3 = PP/PI suboperation (PI secondary resource that lies under a phase)

Superior operation: This new field displays the corresponding operation number.

The confirmation necessitates the implementation of the PI phase operation.

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