Use Handling Units to group production orders?

Hello,
can I use Handling Units to group production orders together? We have a workcenter where all our orders go through and we'd like to group, say, the morning's orders in a single HU on which we could post a single transaction (batch?) instead of posting on each and every order.
Thanks,
Jonathan

Please check OSS note 793168.

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