Create Work Center
Application component: Work Center
App type: SAP GUI
Description:  With this app you can create a work center. Work centers, together with bills of materials and routings, belong to the most important master data in production planning. Work centers are business objects that can represent, for example, the following real work centers:   Machines or machine groups   Production lines   Assembly work centers   Employees or groups of employees   These different work center categories determine which data you can maintain in a work center. 
Key features:    Create a new work center either manually or by copying data from a reference work center. From the reference work center, you can then choose which data should be copied to the new work center.   Enter the appropriate work center data depending on the work center category:   Add administrative data, such as the person responsible and the location of the work center. You can add a standard value key to the work center. When you assign a work center to an operation, predefined data fields and key words are added to the operation via this standard value key.    Define default values for operations and sub-operations. The system takes over the default values when you assign the work center to an operation or sub-operation.   Add work center capacities, which are distinguished by categories, for example, machine capacity or energy requirements. Each capacity category can only be used once in each work center. For every capacity category, you can maintain several available capacities. To use a capacity in several work centers, you can define pooled capacities, which are created and edited independently of the work center.   Enter the scheduling data to a work center:   The scheduling basis is a capacity whose operating time is to be used for scheduling orders.   You use formulas to calculate the execution times of operations in production orders using standard values, or to calculate the internal processing times in networks and maintenance task lists.   The interoperation time is the time between leaving one work center and beginning the operation at the next work center.   Dimension and units of measure for internal processing operations.     Add data for costing, if you want to cost the activities performed at the work center.   A work center can use resources from a cost center: In this case, the work center is linked to cost center accounting, which enables you to model the processes in your company according to responsibilities and functions.   A work center can use resources from a business process: In this case, the work center is linked to Activity based controlling, which enables you to model the processes in your company according to activities in a cross-function manner.     Store data for CAPP (Computer Aided Process Planning) standard value calculation in a work center. To use CAPP calculation, at least one process has to be assigned to the work center.   Arrange work centers in hierarchies. You use hierarchies to cumulate available capacities and capacity requirements in a hierarchy work center.    Assign work centers to either an organizational unit or a work center in the Human Resource Management System (HRMS).      
Business roles: Production Engineer - Discrete Manufacturing
Production Engineer - Discrete Manufacturing : 
Maintains manufacturing relevant master data such as routing and work center. Frequently cooperates closely with PLM department, production supervisors and other people relevant for manufacturing.