SAP Production Planning Table

Soumyadipta
If I remember if setup group key is defined in the operation in the routing and then the
transition times between setup keys is maintained in configuration.
So it's possible to create something like the following:
From Key 1 To Key 1 30 mins
From Key 1 To Key 2 8 hours
So different the operations in orders for the same material should both have the same key
and should have a setup time on 30 mins between them.
Then when a different material with a different setup key comes along in the
manufacturing sequence it will pick up an 8 hour setup time
Paul
I am facing a much similar problem. We have 15 work stations and daily 50 - 60
production orders are printed. I am maintaining production time as well as set up
time in the routings ( There exists a separate routing for all the part no's ). When a
production order is printed it copies the setup time from routings. Suppose in one
work station there happens has to be 2 production orders processed one by one then
the setup is only once. but due to the fact that setup is present in the routings the
production order shows a non-conformity of setup time for the 2nd production
order. How to solve this problem.
Narendra S
We have a similar situation in the company I work for, we don't actually maintain
routings at material level but use reference operation sets at an aggregate level to
represent the different production footprints (the link to each material is then made
through the production version in the material master).
We measure the actual setup time confirmed in each order belonging to each footprint /
family over a rolling three month period and maintain an average setup time in the
reference operation set. This gets copied to each production order, but is only to make
sure that a time allowance is left in each production week for set up to create meaningful
capacity planning data.
When the planners develop the manufacturing schedule using the graphical planning
table they then update the setup time in each order automatically with the setup times
maintained in the transition matrix so it's more accurate, as it takes account of the order
being made on the workcentre previously. So in our case two orders sharing the same
footprint will have different setup times.