Process Control in Confirmation Parameters

Question

Dear All,
There is a Process  control tab in SPRO'confirmation parameters for Orders'.
I know it is used for decoupling of Production process like GI,GR & activity posting.What are the basic settings required for the same.Plz guide..

Answer 1

Hi,
Business Process:
If you are dealing with hundreds of components for your Production Order (like in Auto/Electronics Industry)
then executing the GI, GR and Activity Posting may consume a lot of System Resources.
If number of people doing the confirmations at number of locations (Multiple Plant scenario) then the situation will be even worse as far as the system load is concerned.
Etc....
With this Process Control we can handle the situation in a better way.
As you said there are couple ofoptions to do that:
1. Online (Then and there the Posting will happen, here you need to wait till the posting happens.)
2. in an Update (If you are working in update task the next dialog step is possible immediately)
3. in the Background (At later probably at the Night when the Load on the System is Very less)
For this you need to Schedule the Program CORUPROC as a Batch Job.
There are other Customization Settings also required to be made for this:
1. Define Time for Confirmation Processes (OPKC)
Here you define the how you are going to do your confimation with reference to GI,GR and Activity.
The Order Category for Production Order is 10, so you need to do your cutomization with reference to this.
2. Define Paralleling Type for Confirmation Processes (OPKB).
You need to define the No. of Paralleln tasks and maximum number of items per material document (for goods movements)
Now you have scheduled your CORUPROC say 5 times a day..
But if you want to do your confirmation immediately then and there then you can go with the Transaction : CO1P.
But this is to be used in rare cases..
Hope this clarifies..
Revert for further discussion..
Regards,
Siva