staging for production

[Former Member]

Hi All,

i would like to know the difference between automatiac staging and manual staging for production operation. What config steps are different in both scenarios?

i would like to know what settings are required in control cycle and also the usage of 100 storage type(standard).

pls throw some light on this scenario

Thanks

[csaba_szommer]

Hi Nagi Balaji,

In WM there are pick parts, crate parts, release order parts.

Automatic material staging can be use for pick parts. In this sceanrio you move the goods from normal storage bins to production bins, and the quantity you move is exactly the quantity that is necessary for the PrdOrd. The TR is generated at the time of order release.

In manual material staging you can decide when and how much material is to be provided for production. Manual staging can be used for all the mentioned parts (e.g. LP11 can be used for pick parts; in case of crate and release order parts you generally do not organize the production supply based on the exact production order quantity, you decide the qty e.g. based on the packaging quantity of the product).

In control cycle you define how the components should behave from material staging point of view.

I think you have much experience with WM, please go trough the SAP online help materials and if you have question please come back

WM-PP interface

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/c6/f8412f4afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

Automatic material staging

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/c6/f841634afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

Manual material staging

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/c6/f841b14afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

Control cycle

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/c6/f841494afa11d182b90000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

(there's so called kanban replenishment also, but I think you haven't asked about it)

Regards,

Csaba

Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jan 6, 2009 8:22 PM

Edited by: Csaba Szommer on Jan 6, 2009 8:40 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

From my point of view, whatever automatically or manually staging for production, the following customizing you have to do in SAP system. In SAP system call it as Replenishment Control:

Replenishment Control Customizing

Process Flow

The internal stock transfer process is at the core of all the different types of replenishment control covered in this lesson. Generally, partial stocks are moved from one storage type to another within a warehouse number. As of SAP R/3 4.6C, you can use replenishment control to supply both fixed storage bins and bins in storage types with random storage. The following programs are available in

the SAP ECC standard system:

• 1. Report RLLNACH1 for fixed bin replenishment based on bin stock only

• 2. Report RLLNACH2 for fixed bin replenishment based on bin stock and the current requirements in outbound deliveries

• 3. Report RLLNACH4 for replenishment in storage types with random storage

To use these programs, you first have to add some storage type specific fields in the second Warehouse Management view of the material masters of all of the affected materials. For delivery-related control, you have to enter a replenishment quantity. For replenishment control based on the bin stock alone, you have to enter a minimum and a maximum quantity (for fixed bin materials, the maximum quantity is often already specified for the quantity-based capacity check and this quantity can be used by replenishment control as well).

As well as maintaining the master data, it is also useful to create at least one new Warehouse anagement movement type for use in replenishment control. In the standard system there is already a warehouse management movement type, 320, created for replenishment. You can use movement type 319 (replenishment for production) as a template and change some of the details. In the copy, remove

interim storage type 100, the indicator for dynamic storage bin creation, the requirement type, and the GR data in quant indicator. Assign this new movement type to the storage type that needs replenishing in the Define Stock Transfers and Replenishment Control table. This table is in Customizing under Logistics Execution u2192 Warehouse Management u2192 Activities u2192 Transfers u2192 Define Stock Transfers and Replenishment Control.

If you want to make sure that the reserve storage type is always found as the picking storage type for replenishment stock transfers, you can use the Reference storage type search indicator. You assign this indicator, which creates links between Warehouse Management movement types and storage types, to your new replenishment movement type. Unlike many other indicators, you do not have to

define the indicator in a table in advance, you simply enter a numerical value between one and three digits in the Ref.Stor.Type Search field in master record of the the movement type of your choice. You then enter this value in a new entry in the storage type search table (in the Reference Storage Type Search field), with the reserve storage type in first position in the search sequence. If a stock transfer transfer order is created, controlled by your new replenishment type, the system determines this exact table entry on the basis of the indicator and removes the required quantity from the reserve storage type.

Generally, a storage type indicator for stock removal is set for the material that is picked and used for the replenishment. The indicator is set to the fixed bin storage type in the first Warehouse Management view. You can enter an indicator for the reserve storage type in the Stock placement field. The Reference

storage type search indicator separates a “normal” stock removal process from a replenishment stock transfer during the search for a storage type for stock removal.

Good day

Tao