Urgent : Automatic Selection of work center

[Former Member]

Dear All,

Good Morning,

please provide me valuable input to accomplish the business scenario,

the scenario is

1.There are 16 NC T-Bending Machine with different capacity.

2. The Client wants to select the workcenter automatically if the 1st workcenter is overloaded i.e 2nd workcenter should be selected by the system

Again,if 2nd workcenter is overloaded then system should select 3rd workcenter and so on..

How I can make it possible.

I am trying the Alternative sequence ,will it works to achive the requirement .

please give ur valuable inputs.

Thank in advance,

Vijay Mankar

[Former Member]

In capacity leveling transaction, enable "date entry when dispatching". Then, every time you dispatch operations, you will get a pop-up for date entry. Luckily, this pop-up also has a field for work center - so you can change work center also (with or without date changing).

We are using this method extensively. Start transaction with all the work centers that you want to be considered. Then, just select all the orders and dispatch. In pop-up, change work center to the next in list. So, some orders will get dispatched to that work center, and after its capacity is fully booked, the balance orders will fail to dispatch. Once again, select all orders (left in the order pool) and dispatch, and change work center in pop-up. You will have to do this as many times as the list of work centers OR till all orders are dispatched (whichever occurs first). Takes just about a minute per work center and works perfectly.

- Chetan

[Former Member]

Vijay,

SAP does not provide automatic selection of work-center in orders. As Prabhakar has mentioned the option SAP provides is Capacity levelling. In capacity levelling you need to dispatch the operation to the work center which is under loaded.

Regards

Ram

[Former Member]

HI Vijay,

Yes you can try with parallel sequence

Thanks

Bala

[Former Member]

Hi Vijay Kumar

1) You can use Production Versions with 3 routings with different lot sizes to select the right work center during production order creation

Eg.PV 1 for 1-500 pcs

PV2 for 501-1000pc

PV3 for 1001-1000000pc etc

2) Another method you have to do define in work center capacity screen,Header no of individual capacity (machine) as 3, i hope it will distribute the load to all hree machines, you need to explore on it

3) Other thing is Manual go to work center load CM01 evaluate the work center load and do the levelling in CM21 or CM22

Please Reward with points to the extent i answered your question

K.Prabakaran

[Dsk]

1. When do u want this automatic selection need to happen

a. during production order creat

b. during the release of prod order

2. based on this we can set the availability check for the capacity planning and put it to error mode or user decicion

3. since u expect some automation - you canuse an user exit which can actually do this activity for us.

let me know if u need more details but this is ""very much possible ""

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can do one thing, In production order enter other operations with another work centers.Go to menu & select capacity planning, u will see the another operations.

Then u go to profile & select allow for over lapping. Then select operation & dragout to parallel. So that operation will be carried out parallely.

We can do it manually.

Regards,

Suhas