creating work center best practices

[Former Member]

Hi,

A single work center in SAP (tcode CR01, CRC1) can be created to represent multiple machines on the shopfloor. For eg if I have 200 machines on the shopfloor, I can actually combine them such that each CR01 work center groups for eg 2 machines. Thus I would land up creating just 100 work centers in SAP. Is there any best practice to group machines into work centers so that the amount of master data in the system is reduced ? Like for eg if 2 machines need to be scheduled simultaneously then I would create a single work center with 2 individual capacites in SAP.

I am not looking for creating work center hierarchies. Just that my client has 200 machines in their legacy system and I want to collapse them to 100 work centers in SAP when the data is loaded into SAP. Thus I am trying to find out some rules based on which I can combine multiple machines into a single workcenter.

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear GS,

If capacities of all machines are of same, then you can group them in one workcenter

in below thread insted of labour work center make it as machine work center

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Regards

Madhu

[former_member184655]

Dear GS,

1. If there are more than one similar machine(capacity) then only work center can be created mentioning the no of machines as no

of individual capcity.Say for Eg if there are 3 lathe machines then you can create one work center and mention the no of individual

capacity as 3.(Here the costing will be same because they are similar machines).

2.Say if there different CNC machines then you have to create it as individual work center,because the cost for the activity types

will be getting varied.

3.If you create only one work center for the similar machines then creating breakdown notification will be possible only for that

work center,not for the individual machine.

4.There may be work center's which may be running under 100% capacity utilization and some may be utilized only for 80 or 90%

though they may be run under 100% utilization,in such cases we have to create it as individual work center.

5.If certain work center's are running only for 2 shifts or only for 6 working days,then we have to create it as individual work

center.

Check and revert.

Regards

S Mangalraj

[Former Member]

Dear Friend,

first of all , you just analyse that , what is the existing production scenario. ? How the material flows?

there may be some machines which work the same task,with different labours. So you can combine such machines as one work center. Use splitting function to split the task beween the workcenters , Now create the labour capacity with number of people required to handle the above mensioned workcenter and assing labour capacity to that work center.

If the are some machines which operate slighly different taks but they can utilise the same labour groups then you can map this by creating the POOLED CAPACITY, which is pooled as per requirement by assinged workcenters. Eg. machine set up group is pooled labour capacity or mechanical maintenance group is Pooled capacity which is pooled towards the machine which has suffered breakdown.

so first analyse the Production Flow , then Club the machines which can operate same task, and have same costing paramenters, and capacities.

Regards ,

Girish.

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can combine the machin on the basis of individual capacity,condition that i feel importent is the capacity of

the machin should have same so that we will get correct scheduling.

Second point if we want workcenter wise reporting. Then in this case, we need to create different workcenter.

But, this you can discuss how they are recording the production of the workcenter either individual or combinelly as

per induvidual capacity.

Rgd,

Chetan