SAP PP - Work Centers

PP - Work Centers is an article provided by SAP AG. This SAP PP article is intended for SAP System Administrators, Production Planning (PP) developer and SAP technology Consultants.
This SAP PP article explains you about Production planning and control (PP) work center component in SAP R/3 system and its use. You will learn about Work centers and operations carried out in work centers such as machines, machine groups, production lines, assembly work centers, employees and groups of employees, etc. Moreover with the help of this SAP PP documentation you will learn the use of Work center such as master data in r/3 production planning and control system, role in task list operations and work orders, and data in work centers for scheduling, costing, capacity planning and simplifying operation maintenance, etc.
Following are the few topics covered in this SAP PP Work center guide.
  • PP - Work Centers
  • Work Center
  • Authorization
  • Display Administrative Data
  • Creating, Changing and Displaying Work Centers
  • Creating and Changing Work Centers by Copying
  • Checking Work Centers
  • Renaming Work Centers
  • Locking and Unlocking Work Centers
  • Deleting Work Centers, Setting Deletion Flags
  • Classifying Work Centers
  • Creating Classes
  • Assigning Work Centers to Subsystems
  • Archiving Work Centers
  • Basic Data
  • Performance Efficiency Rate Key
  • Standard value
  • Creating a Short Text Description of the Work Center in Different Languages
  • Default values
  • Reference Indicator
  • Control Keys
  • Standard Text Keys
  • Editing Standard Text
  • Capacities
  • Capacity Categories
  • Available Capacities
  • Maintaining Capacities
  • Planning Details for Capacity Planning
  • Cumulation of Available Capacities and Capacity Requirements
  • Scheduling Data in Work Centers
  • Maintaining Scheduling Data
  • Interoperation Time
  • Costing
  • Costing with Cost Centers
  • Costing with Business Processes
  • Assignments to Objects in the Human Resource Management System (HR)
  • Assigning HR Objects to Work Centers
  • Assigning HR Objects to Capacities
  • Qualifications and Requirements Profiles
  • Validity Periods
  • Technical Data for Calculating Standard Values with CAPP
  • Assigning Processes
  • Work center hierarchy
  • Hierarchy Creation
  • Displaying Hierarchy Structure as a List
  • Explosion Stop
  • Reporting
  • Displaying Standard Reports
  • Displaying Change Documents
  • Displaying Where-used Lists for Work Centers
  • Selecting Overview Variants
  • Displaying Where-used Lists for Capacities
  • Replacing Work Centers in Task Lists
  • Initial Phase of Mass Replacement of Work Centers
  • Configuration of Work Centers
  • Field Selection in Work Centers
  • Default Work Center
  • Default Capacity
  • Formulas
  • Formula Parameter
  • Rules for Maintaining Formulas
  • Example: Standard Formula
  • Example: Formula for Periodic Setup
  • Example: Formula for Annealing Furnace
  • Using Formulas in Work Centers
  • Displaying formulas
  • Testing formulas
  • Assigning Values to Formula Constants
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