Internal processing at multiple work centers with multiple activity types

[Former Member]

Hello everyone,

I'm setting up a scenario where each assembly will be undergo processing at one to four work centers (WC), but it is preferred to keep project production self-contained, ie without triggering PP production orders. The work centers are shared with non-project production and of category 0007, which I configured to include task list type 'N'. I have defined a standard network with a separate internal processing activity (NA:IP) with activity type (AT) 'direct labor' for each work center, to which internal processing activity elements (AE:IP) for each of five other activity types are assigned. So it looks like this.

...

[WBS] A-type assembly

     [NA:IP] WC 101 / AT Direct labor

          [AE:IP] WC 101 / AT Depreciation

          [AE:IP] WC 101 / AT Energy

          [AE:IP] WC 101 / AT Indirect labor

          ...

     [NA:IP] WC 201 / AT Direct labor

          [AE:IP] WC 201 / AT Depreciation

          [AE:IP] WC 201 / AT Energy

          [AE:IP] WC 201 / AT Indirect labor

          ...

...

The above structure adds a bit of clutter to the project and, more importantly, activity quantities have to be planned separately for each activity element. Is there a more efficient practice to follow? For instance, is it possible to leverage work center formulas derive the plan quantities of the activity elements from the network activities? Any other suggestions are also welcome.

Thanks.

[sanjeevc]

HI,

• why not you goes though production order manually with the reference of wbs?
• check transaction CO10 if it is complete your requirement?
• Here you can assign 4 work center or more too. means routing can be define here.

Regards,
Sanjeev

[Former Member]

Hi Sanjeev,

Thanks for the response. The reason we want to keep project production self-contained is that there are virtually no repeating parts and it would be overkill, from a user perspective, to go into material master, BOM and routing detail for each part. In other words, there are no goods being manufactured, as far as SAP is concerned.

Would it be possible and sensible to create a production order for a dummy material, confirm material and activity consumptions without goods issues, then settle the production order to a network activity?

Regards.