SAP HELP R/3 4.70 extracts: PP-MP-DEM

Assemble-to-order with Projects 

Use networks and projects for assemble-to-order if you manufacture or engineer your products to order and you are not sure exactly how you are going to execute the sales order:

• If your customer orders a product whose manufacturing or assembly process is so complex that you consider it a project. With networks, you can plan in the mid- to long-term, for example, when the actual assembly process does not start for another 6 months.
• If your customer orders a customized or configured product that you are manufacturing or assembling for the first time. With a network, you have a flexible framework for rough-cut planning when you enter the sales order that you can add more detail to, and, if necessary, create production orders.
• If your manufacturing or assembly process is characterized by technical or time interdependencies, such as, one activity cannot finish until the preceding activity has finished.
• If you want to use the unique functionality of the Project System to carry out your projects, for example, you can create a work breakdown structure (WBS) for a project at the same time that you create a sales order.

You can still use planned orders and production orders if you choose to create a network from a sales order.

Account Assignment

In assemble-to-order with projects you can choose where the costs are collected: for example, in a work breakdown structure element (WBS element), in the sales order, or in the network.

It is not possible to assign an network with activity account assignment to a sales order.