Master data is generally static for any company and is very rarely changed depending on the requirement. There are 5 master data to be maintained in Production Planning module.
1. Material Master
The material master contain information on all the materials that a company procures, produces, stores, and sells. It is a number uniquely identifies a material master record, and hence a material.
Materials with the same basic attributes are grouped together and assigned to a material type such as finished, raw material, etc.
It is used for the following purposes:
* To purchase materials
* For Goods Movement postings such as goods issue or receipt in inventory management and also for physical inventory postings
* In invoice verification for posting invoices
* In sales and distribution for sales order fulfillment process
* In production planning and control for material requirements planning, scheduling, and production confirmation processes.
2. Bill of Material (BOM)
A bill of material is a complete, formally structured list of the components together with the quantity required to produce the product or assembly.
BOM’s are used in material requirement planning and product costing.
You can also create up to 99 alternative BOMs for a single product.
For Products having variants, you can create Super BOM, which has all possible types of components used to manufacture different types of variants, and the appropriate component is selected based on characteristic chosen in the sales Order.
For example, Product Cycle can contain all types of frames (with different colors and sizes) and desired frame is selected in production order based on color and size chosen in the sales order.
3.Work Center
A Work Center is a machine or group of machines where production operations are performed. Work centers are used in task list operations (Routings).
It contains the data for :
* Scheduling
* Capacity
* Costing
4. Routing
Routing is nothing but a sequence of operation performed at the Work Center. It also specifies the machine time, labor time, etc. for the execution of operations.
It is also used for scheduling of operations and used in standard cost calculation of the product.
5. Production version
The production version is a combination of BOM and Routing data for production. It is a linkage between BOM & Routing and determines the manufacturing process.
There can be multiple production versions as per different manufacturing process to produce the product.
