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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
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.
1. Enter your manufacturing Plant code where Work Center needs to be created.
3. 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.
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 4) In this Screen under capacities Tab, capacity data will be entered.
2. 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 to go back to the Work Center capacity overview.
Then click on the tab "Scheduling" tab from the menu, the system will show the
following screen:
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.
1. Enter Start and Finish date which represents validity date of the cost center.
2. Input cost center to which operational costs would be booked.
3. Input all activity types along with the formulae, which would be used for calculating
the activity costs.
Click button to save the new Work Center. The system will show
message at the lower left corner.
Step 1) From SAP Easy access screen, open the transaction CR02.
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 to save Work Center. The system will show a
message like at the lower left corner.
How to display Work Center
Step 1) From SAP Easy Access screen open the transaction CR03
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.