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Routing
Routing is core PP master data that defines the sequence of operations, work centers, standard values, and control parameters needed to manufacture a material. It drives capacity planning, scheduling, costing, and shop floor confirmations, and integrates tightly with BOMs, work centers, and production/process orders across ECC and S/4HANA.
Overview
Routing is core PP master data that defines the sequence of operations, work centers, standard values, and control parameters needed to manufacture a material. It drives capacity planning, scheduling, costing, and shop floor confirmations, and integrates tightly with BOMs, work centers, and production/process orders across ECC and S/4HANA.
Lessons in this topic
- Configuring Routing Operations: Work Centers, Control Keys, and SequencesLearn how to configure routing operations in practice, including work center assignment, standard value formulas, control keys, and sequence types, and how these choices affect scheduling, costing, and execution.
- Routing Selection Logic: Group Counters, Task List Usage, and Production Version AlignmentUnderstand how the system selects the correct routing during order creation using group counters, usage indicators, lot size validity, and production version linkage, and how to troubleshoot selection errors.
- Routing Fundamentals: Purpose, Structure, and Business ValueUnderstand what a routing is, why it exists, and how its structural elements (header, operations, sequences, work centers) drive planning and execution in manufacturing.
- Operation Sequencing: Parallel Sequences, Alternative Sequences, and Reference Operation SetsLearn how sequence numbers, parallel sequences, alternative sequences, and reference operation sets model complex manufacturing flows beyond simple linear routings.
- Enterprise Routing Governance: Standardization, Migration, and PP/DS Alignment at ScaleArchitect-level guidance on governing routing master data across multiple plants and systems, planning ECC-to-S/4HANA migrations, and aligning classic routings with PP/DS production versions for long-term scalability and control.
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