Confirm Repetitive Manufacturing
Application component: Repetitive Manufacturing
App type: SAP GUI
Scope items: Make-to-Stock Production - Repetitive Manufacturing|Material Replenishment with Kanban - External Procurement
Description:  You can use this component within the framework of Repetitive Manufacturing to record work progress in the system. In accordance with the requirements of repetitive manufacturing, mass production, or flow manufacturing, the confirmation process is very lean. For example, you have the option of deferring the entry of all "actual" data from production until the receipt of the finished part is recorded via a goods receipt confirmation. In the case of make-to-stock repetitive manufacturing, you also have the option of posting a reporting point confirmation at defined operations, in order to record the stock of semifinished products in production, for example. This function enables you to couple the following processes in a goods receipt confirmation: Posting goods receipts for finished products Posting goods issues for the components (backflushing) Reducing planned orders or run schedule quantities Posting production costs to product cost collector Updating of statistics in the Logistics Information System (LIS) (such as the goods receipt statistics or the statistics on material consumption).  Furthermore, you can decouple these processes in terms of time, in order to enter high volumes of data with short response times. 
Key features:  Depending on the type of repetitive manufacturing you use in your business (Make-to-Order Repetitive Manufacturing (Valuated Stock), Make-To-Order Repetitive Manufacturing (Non-Valuated Stock), repetitive manufacturing based on production lots, or Make-to-Stock Repetitive Manufacturing), you have the following options for the entry of "actual" data: Goods receipt confirmationYou can use this functionality to carry out the confirmation and entry of "actual" data at the end of the production process. You can post goods receipts for stock materials, with reference to a sales order or to a production lot, or for a kanban material, even if you produced the material at another plant. Reporting point confirmationYou can use this functionality in the case of make-to-stock production if you wish to confirm unfinished materials ("work in process") at defined operations. The reporting point confirmation can be used in the following situations:You wish to enter the quantity of semifinished products in the production processIn the case of longer lead times, you wish to make the goods issue postings for the components closer in time to the actual withdrawal of the components from storage.You wish to post any scrap quantities produced directly at the corresponding operation.You can specify whether the reporting point confirmation is mandatory or optional. Decoupling of confirmation processesIf you want to post large volumes of data, you can significantly cut system response times by posting the goods receipt immediately and all other data at a later point in time.Note Note that decoupled confirmation is not possible if the entry of documentary batches has been defined for the components of a finished product subject to confirmation.For more information, refer to the documentation on Batch Management under Documentary Batch. Collective entry of several materialsYou use the collective entry process to to enter the "actual" data for several materials at the same time.In the repetitive manufacturing of make-to-stock material, you can make a collective entry of the actual data for several materials. For example, you can confirm all materials produced on a certain line simultaneously.   Post synchronously to bin This indicator allows you to control how to post goods movements from or to an embedded EWM for production confirmations in repetitive manufacturing. If you select this indicator, goods movements from or to an embedded EWM are posted synchronously, meaning that the stock levels in both the warehouse management destination bin and the inventory management storage location are updated in parallel. If you do not select this indicator, the system posts the goods movements to an embedded EWM asynchronously. In this case, the stock level in warehouse management is changed separately, for example, by the creation of a delivery. Note You must select this indicator if components in a Repetitive Manufacturing production process are managed by an embedded EWM, since asynchronous backflush postings are not supported in Repetitive Manufacturing.  
Business roles: Production Operator - Repetitive Manufacturing
Production Operator - Repetitive Manufacturing : 
Operates the machines or does manual assembly activities on the production line to produce as per the planned production schedule of the shift. Reports Yield, Scrap, and material consumption deviations into the system.