SAP BLOG Comparative Analysis of Delivery Based Production Integration Versus Advance Production Integration for Decentralized EWM

Comparative Analysis Factor​

Delivery Based Production Integration​

Advanced Production Integration​

Best Fit Production Scenario​

When one wants to stage the exact quantity at an exact time, the delivery-based production supply is best suited.​

Best suited for the production process where staging and consumption of components takes over a longer time span. Especially when the space in your production is limited, one would not want to stage the full quantity at the beginning of the operation, but one pallet after the other.​

Representation of Mfg. order in EWM​

There is no document created which reflects what ERP manufacturing order contains.​

The virtual mirror of ERP mfg. order is PMR (Production Material Request) document. PMR in EWM is directly coupled with the ERP manufacturing order via the status management of the order and the PMR.​

Stock Reservation​

Stock is not reserved for specific manufacturing order​

Stock can be reserved for specific manufacturing order using single order staging​

Effect of changes in planned quantity & dates in mfg. order​

Does not make real-time update of planned quantity or dates in EWM.​

PMR reflects the changes in component quantity and planned requirement dates once process order is changed​

Reference document for Staging​

The execution of material staging leads to the replication of an outbound delivery to EWM. Outbound delivery order (ODO) is main reference document for material staging.​

The PMR (Production Material Request) is a main reference document in advanced production integration against which the staging is performed​

Material Staging​

Execution of WM Material Staging in ERP manufacturing order is must. Exact quantity mentioned in outbound delivery order is staged.​

No ERP triggered staging needed. Staging is performed with /SCWM/STAGE. One can do the staging in partial quantities according to the rules in transaction /SCWM/PSASTAGE​

Staging Methods Used​

Pick parts and release order parts are the main staging methods. EWM crate parts can be used independently using /SCWM/REPL.​

Single order and cross-order staging methods are main methods. Crate parts replenishment based staging method is also available in PMR.​

Integration with Manufacturing Execution System​

Typically, the classical goods movement BAPI like BAPI_GOODSMVT_CREATE is used in the interface development​

SAP provided out of the box APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for smooth MES Integration. Some of the important ones are:​

/SCWM/MFG_CONSUME_ITEMS_EXT-Consumption of Goods from Production​

/SCWM/MFG_READ_STOCK_EXT- Stock Information from Production​

/SCWM/MFG_RECEIVE_HUS_EXT- Receive HUs​

/SCWM/MFG_REVERSE_HUS_EXT- Reverse HUs​

/SCWM/MFG_REVERSE_ITEMS_EXT- Consumption Reversal from Production​

/SCWM/MFG_STAGE_EXT- External Staging Request for Production​

Consumption posting​

In ERP, one can trigger the consumption for the manufacturing order using transactions like MIGO. This will trigger the creation of a consumption posting delivery which is not picking relevant in SAP EWM.​

In EWM, one can post consumption using RFUI, NWBC transactions without a trigger from ERP. Once the consumption is posted, the goods movement is reflected back in ERP from EWM​

Goods Issue Posting- Quantity​

The quantity what is requested in outbound delivery order is a fixed quantity against which goods issue can be posted.​

The item quantity in a PMR is a planned quantity, not of a fixed quantity. Hence you can post the consumption even after posting full goods issue. The actual decision about the end of a manufacturing order is with the production and when user decides to close the order, no goods movement can be posted. EWM set the status Manufacturing Order (DMC) to the respective value when technical completion or completion status is received from ERP mfg. order. Thus there is no hard validation on the exact quantity instead of allowing the control of the manufacturing request via the manufacturing order instead.​

Consumption quantity​

The quantity what is requested in outbound delivery order or posting change is staged.​

There is no hard check on the consumption quantity, you can post the consumption for the quantity that was actually consumed.​

Backflush​

Possible with the same mechanism as ERP consumption trigger like using backflush in CO11N, COR6N.​

If a component in manufacturing order is flagged as a backflush item, then the goods issue can not be posted in EWM. But with cross-order staging method, we can still stage backflush relevant component using PMR but the consumption posting has to be triggered using backflush in ERP. When a backflush is triggered in ERP, it will create the consumption posting delivery, same as it works with consumption posting in delivery-based production supply.​

System Performance Impact​

In case of outbound delivery orders partial goods issue postings lead to a high number of document splits with significant impact on the performance.​

No system performance, one can post and cancel the goods issue in partial quantities without significant performance impact​

Paperwork​

When it is required to transport the components from one physical location to another, the delivery-based production supply is recommended to print the required transport papers out of system.​

Transport paperwork printing is not directly supported.​

Returns from manufacturing​

Returns are typically executed by triggering the ad-hoc movement of materials from PSA to warehouse, as and when necessary.​

After the staging and consumption is finished, if there are unused and unconsumed material in the PSA, the “Clear Production Supply Area” step can be invoked by production line operator. Clear PSA is used to create Warehouse Task to move material back to warehouse bins, especially for all staged and unconsumed products that are not needed anymore for PMRs in status “Technically Completed”.​

KANBAN and REM​

KANBAN and REM are supported.​

KANBAN and REM are not supported.​

Shuttle Process​

Shuttle process especially i.e. ERP storage locations managed by different EWM warehouse numbers, especially during staging is well supported.​

Shuttle process is not supported​