Mass Processing Production Orders
Application component: Production Orders
App type: SAP GUI
Description:   You can use mass processing to execute functions for several process or production orders.  Note Some of the mass processing functions described in the following cannot be used for process orders.  The following documentation on mass processing relates to the transactions COHV ( Mass Processing Production Orders ) and COHVPI ( Mass Processing Process Orders ), which replace the transactions CO28 ( Individual Object Lists ), COID ( Individual Object Lists PI ) and CO44 ( Mass Processing for Orders ).  
Key features:  Functions   The following functions are available for process and production orders :  Order headers  Material availability check (manufacturing orders and planned orders)   Release   Print shop floor papers   Costing   Scheduling   Set up capacity requirements   WM materials staging   Picking   Set/delete user status   Confirmation   Technically complete   Complete   Log display   Operations  Release   Print shop floor papers   Picking   Set/delete user status   Confirmation   Log display   Components  Print shop floor papers   Picking   Log display   Production resources/tools (PP only)  Print shop floor papers   Log display     There are also mass-processing functions for planned orders . See also: Mass-Processing Functions for Planned Orders   Starting Mass Processing   Mass processing can be started in the following ways:  Triggering the execution of a function  The execution of a function can be triggered as follows: Execute function immediately  The functions are executed directly after mass processing has been triggered. This can take a long time for functions that require a lot of system resources. However, you can immediately check whether the function was successfully executed.  Execute function with dialog  Further processing is controlled by a dialog that is specific to the function. This option is available for the following functions: Confirmation, Picking, Log display.  Create a function preselection (see Processing Requests )  First, preselections are created without any further checks. The preselections are created very quickly. Actual execution takes place with the program COWORKDISPATCH. It is thus delayed until the next time the program starts. You can decouple the function in terms of time, so that the main work takes place at night, for example. The end users create preselections and system administration takes care of their execution.  Execute function in background  First, preselections are created without any further checks. Then a background process is started, which processes these preselections immediately. Scheduling a background job does not create any administrative work and reduces the burden on dialog.   Parallelization  For parallelization, you define server groups for mass processing (COWORK-DIALOG, COWORK-BATCH). This enables you to speed up the execution of processing.   Mass processing in dialog / in the background .  You can either execute mass processing in dialog or you can schedule it in a background job (no dialog steps possible).    Application Toolbar with Mass Processing Functions   You can specify that an application toolbar with selected mass processing functions is to be displayed in the list of the selected objects. You can use this application toolbar to execute the functions in dialog.   For more information, see Display Application Toolbar with Mass-Processing Functions .   Test Run   You can specify whether the changes are to be made by a mass-processing function or test-wise. Any error messages that may occur are collected. No changes are written to the database.   The test run is available for the following functions:   Complete   Set/delete user status   Release   Costing   Set up capacity requirements   Technically complete   Scheduling   WM materials staging    To test a function, choose the Test Function Without Changes to Data option on the Mass Processing tab page.   Log   Log records are written and saved when the function is executed. They provide information about the execution of the mass processing functions. If no log record exists, the function was carried out without restriction. The log records are assigned to the order or the order network.   For more information, see Logs .   
Business roles: Production Supervisor - Discrete Manufacturing
Production Supervisor - Discrete Manufacturing : 
Ensures, together with his team, a smooth production process. Ensures that the manufacturing plan created by the production planner is executed under consideration of shop floor related issues like personnel shortage, machine breakdowns, etc.