Creating and Changing Process Plans
To create or change process plans in your SAP distribution targets, the following are assumed:
• Associated Operation Work centers exist in SAP.
• The following mappings for time are based on the default AP Workcenter 1100
◦ Setup time — Standard value: 1; and Standard unit: 1
◦ Processing time — Standard value: 2; and Standard unit: 2
◦ Labor time — Standard value: 3; and Standard unit: 3
This mapping needs to be customized based on the workcenter and plant configuration.
• When Process Plans are published to SAP, the associated BOMs, operations, sequences and control characteristics are also published. Resources allocated to operations are published as well; however, skills are ignored by the middleware business logic.
• Documents associated to operations and resources are published, but those associated to process plans and sequences are ignored by the middleware business logic.
• A CN with Parametric effectivity, such as serial effectivity, is not supported for Process Plan publication.
• A standard sequence must have a branching and returning operation.
• Labels of operations that occur in a parallel sequence must fall in the range between the branching and returning operations.
• By default Process Plans are published with a status of 4 (Released)
• Sub-operations are supported only up-to one level. This means a sub-operation cannot have a sub-operation within itself.
• The middleware throws an exception for the following conditions:
◦ IsStandard flag is set to true
◦ Multiple versions for the same part are published in a single transaction
◦ Component of a phantom BOM is allocated to a Routing operation
◦ BOM is a Phantom CAD subassembly