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Action Handler (Enhanced) ( RELNAPO_310_PPS_AHT )

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Action Handler (Enhanced)

Use

In SAP APO 3.0, you could choose Production Planning --> Manufacturing Execution --> Connection of the Production Control System in the SAP menu. The connection of the production control system comprised sequence transfer and the Action Handler.

For SAP APO 3.1, the sequence transfer function was moved to model mix planning (APO-PPS-MMP). See the release information Modell Mix Planning: Planning Line Networks for further details.
The menu option Connection of the Production Control System was changed to Action Handler, and the Action Handler received its own component APO-PPS-AHT.

The following enhancements were made in the Action Handler:

Customizing and Master Data

• New Actions
  The new actions allow you to carry out the following functions:

• reschedule orders on alternative resources/lines within a group of alternative lines (only when iPPE is used)

• change the status of activities (only when iPPE is used)

• send SAPOffice notifications in the case of an error

• assign action networks to orders

• deallocate orders

• delete orders

• manually carry out actions for an action point

• display the variant configuration in production tracking

• carry out ATP checks for the components of an order (see also release information ATP Check in PP/DS)

• Parameterization of Actions
  In Customizing, you can define certain parameters for an action. This makes it possible to carry out an action at different points in time with different parameter values. Parameterization, that is, the definition of parameter values, is possible in both automated and manual use of the Action Handler.
  Example of automatic processing with the Action Handler: You want an internal mail to be sent at two different action points. Both mails are to have different text and different recipients.

• Action Networks
  You can use action networks to represent business-related dependencies between actions. For example, you can define that a delivery note is only printed once the order has been picked. You can assign an action network to an order via an action. You use action networks for manual processing with the Action Handler.

• Action Points in iPPE
  The action points of the Action Handler have been integrated into integrated Product and Process Engineering (iPPE). In repetitive manufacturing, you can assign them to elements of the line structure. These actions points can then also be used as reporting points for the automatic backflush.
  In shop floor production, you can assign the action points to the mode of an activity of the process structure; however, this function has only been released with certain restrictions. For further information, see note no. 444569.

• Maintenance of Action Points and Assignment of Actions to Action Points
  Maintaining action points and assigning them to actions is no longer carried out in Customizing but either in iPPE (see above, transaction PPE) or in the master data of the Action Handler (transactions AHTGL01 and AHTGL02).

Automated Processing with the Action Handler

In automated processing, the Action Handler automatically carries out certain actions for all planned orders as soon as the planned orders reach a certain action point during production (printing of documents, production tracking, backflush and so on). This functionality already existed in SAP APO 3.0 and has now been enhanced. The following functions are now available:

• Archiving
  Tracking records, including all additional customer fields, are archived. This reduces the database content in the productive system as far as possible and improves the performance.

• Production Tracking in Planned Order Management (only available if iPPE is used)
  In planned order management, a new application in SAP APO 3.1, you can display production tracking information on planned orders (tab page Tracking Info) which you selected in the planned order overview.

• Improved Error Handling
  If errors occur during the execution of actions, you can send an express mail to the user responsible in addition to the SAPOffice mail. It is possible to implement this functionality per action point or per combination of action point and action.
  You can also implement user-defined error handling. In this case, the event ACTIONHANDLER_ERROR_OCCURRED is connected to the SAP Business Workflow. Instead of a mail, the person responsible then receives a work item in his SAPOffice-Mail inbox.

Manual Processing with the Action Handler

In manual processing, you manually start actions with individual planned orders in order to prepare production in a controlled manner (carry out ATP check for components first, then release orders and so on). This function is new in SAP APO 3.1.

• Action Handler in Planned Order Management (only available if iPPE is used).
  You can use planned order management, a new application for SAP APO 3.1, in order to do the following, starting from the overview screen for planned orders:

• view the action network for planned orders you selected and manually carry out actions from there

• manually carry out standalone actions without business-related dependencies which can be started at any point of the production process for planned orders you selected (tab page Action Handler).

For further details, see the release information Planned Order Management.

Effects on Existing Data

Effects on Data Transfer

Effects on System Administration

Effects on Customizing

Maintain settings for Action Handler

Further Information

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