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Work Center in SAP PP: Scheduling

Work center is an organization unit in SAP PP that represents where manufacturing activities are performed, such as real machines or production lines. Work centers are used in routing operations and production orders to plan shop floor activities. Work center data is used for scheduling, costing, and capacity planning. It is created for a manufacturing plant with a code and can include a group of similar machines. Work centers are configured by entering basic data, capacities, scheduling formulas, and costing information. They can then be changed or displayed as needed.

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Work Center in SAP PP: Scheduling

Work center is an organization unit in SAP PP that represents where manufacturing activities are performed, such as real machines or production lines. Work centers are used in routing operations and production orders to plan shop floor activities. Work center data is used for scheduling, costing, and capacity planning. It is created for a manufacturing plant with a code and can include a group of similar machines. Work centers are configured by entering basic data, capacities, scheduling formulas, and costing information. They can then be changed or displayed as needed.

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Work Center in SAP PP

Work center is an organization unit where manufacturing activities are


performed.
In other words, Work Centers are the master data which represent real
machines, Production Lines, Assembly Work Center, etc. Manufacturing
activity or Operations are carried out at Work Center.
Work Centers are used in
task list (routing) operations
and is copied to production
orders or process orders for
the shop floor planning and
execution.
Work Center data is used for
1.

Scheduling
When a production order is created, the duration of an operation can be
calculated based on operating times in routing and formulas which are
entered in the Work Center.

2.

Costing
The costs of an operation can be calculated in the production Order
based on the formulas which are entered in the Work Center. Work
Center is also linked to a cost center.

3.

Capacity Planning
The available capacity and formulas for calculating capacity
requirements are stored in the Work Center.

Work Centers are used in routing operation data.


Work Center is created for a manufacturing plant and is identified by
a code.

Group of similar machines can also be created as a single Work


Center. For example, 5 similar machines can be created as 1 Work Center
with a number of capacities as 5.
In this tutorial- you will learn

How to Create Work Center

How to Change Work Center

How to display Work Center

How to create Work Center


Step 1) From SAP Easy access open transaction CR01
1.

2.
3.

Enter your manufacturing Plant code where Work Center needs to be


created.
Enter Work Center code.
Enter the Work Center category as "0001" which means Work Center
would be categorized as machines.

After filling in all the fields, click

or press Enter to go to the next screen.

Step 2) In this Screen, Work Center basic data would be entered as given
below.
1.

Input Work Center description.

2.

Enter person responsible code for that Work Center.

3.

Enter physical location where Work Center is located in the plant.

4.

Enter usage as "009" which means Work Center is valid for all task list
types such as production routing, maintenance task list, etc.

5.

Enter standard Value key which contains different activity types used
for standard cost calculation.

Step 3) In this Screen under "Capacities Tab."


1.
2.

Enter Capacity category as "001" which represents machine category.


Input processing formula as "SAP006" - It is used to calculate the
available capacity of Work Center.

SAP006 =( Operation quantity* machine time )/ base quantity


3.

After filling in the capacity category and processing formula, click on


the
button:

It will open another screen.


Step 4) In this Screen under capacities Tab, capacity data will be entered.
1.
2.

Enter Capacity description.


Enter details about "Input capacity planner group", which is
responsible for machine capacity.

3.

Enter factory calendar ID, which has public holidays listed for your
plant. So, on holidays, capacity for that Work Center would be zero.

4.

Input base unit of measure as "MIN" which means work center


available capacity will be measured in time i.e. min.

5.

Enter the time period (start and finish time) for which Work Center
would be available for operation.

6.

Enter capacity utilization percentage %( how much time it is utilized


out of the standard available working time) of the Work Center
considering the breakdown and preventive maintenance of the machine.
Input number of capacities which means a number of similar Work
Center.

7.

Check "relevant for finite scheduling and "long term planning" flags
which indicate if there is a capacity constraint, then the operation is
moved to a certain date where it can be processed without capacity
constraints.

After filling in all the fields, click


overview.

to go back to the Work Center capacity

Then click on the tab "Scheduling" tab from the menu, the system will show
the following screen:
Step 5) In Scheduling Tab,
1.

Enter Capacity category as "001" which represents machine category


and hence machine time would be the basis for calculating schedule
time in production order.

2.

Input processing formula as "SAP002" which is used to calculate


scheduling time.

SAP002 = (Operation quantity* machine time)/ base quantity/no. of splits.

After filling in all the fields, click on the tab "Costing."


Step 6) In Costing Tab
1.

2.
3.

Enter Start and Finish date which represents validity date of the cost
center.
Input cost center to which operational costs would be booked.
Input all activity types along with the formulae, which would be used
for calculating the activity costs.

Click button
message

to save the new Work Center. The system will show


at the lower left corner.

How to Change Work Center


We require changes in Work Center if the cost center assigned to the work
center has been changed by the finance team. If Work Center available
time for production or its utilization % has been changed, then also we
need to make changes in the work center.
Step 1) From SAP Easy access screen, open the transaction CR02.
1.

Enter Plant Code.

2.

Enter Work Center code which needs to be changed.

After filling in all the fields, click


to go to the overview screen of the Work
Center. You can also directly go to the preferred tab by using
the
buttons.
Step 2)
1.

Change the Cost Center or do any kind of modifications like a change


of available time or utilization % in any of the tabs.

After finishing all modifications, click


will show a message like
left corner.

to save Work Center. The system


at the lower

How to display Work Center


Step 1) From SAP Easy Access screen open the transaction CR03
1.

Enter Plant Code.

2.

Enter Work Center code which needs to be displayed.

After filling in all the fields, press enter from the keyboard to go to the
overview screen of the Work Center. You can also directly go to the
preferred tab by using the
buttons.
Troubleshooting

There might be the case where in Cost Center does not exist. For this,
you need to create the cost center and maintain activity type cost
center relationships.

If you go to the technology tab you will get stuck on selecting a


machine type, if so click to leave the tab.

Person responsible, capacity planner groups needs to be configured


in order to proceed with Work Center creation.

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