SAP ABAP IMG Activity PROCESS SHEET (Operational Method Sheet)
Hierarchy
☛ BBPCRM (Software Component) BBPCRM
   ⤷ PP (Application Component) Production Planning and Control
     ⤷ LALD (Package) Logistics Automotive Line Design
IMG Activity
ID PROCESS SHEET Operational Method Sheet  
Transaction Code S_ALR_87008395   (empty) 
Created on 19990107    
Customizing Attributes VORLAGEN   Templates 
Customizing Activity VORLAGEN   OMS Templates 
Document
Document Class SIMG   Hypertext: Object Class - Class to which a document belongs.
Document Name SIMG_CFMENUOLDPS    

In this IMG activity, you define templates (layouts) with which you can print exact operational method sheets for one or more operations of a rate routing, standard routing or inspection plan.
You can print an operational overview cover sheet with one or more pages per operation, in which you can include the following data:

  • tables containing operation data, component allocations, production resources/tools or inspection characteristics
  • graphics displaying the work flow procedure, for example
  • data on the individual fields from the rate routing, such as the description of a processing station or data from the task list header.

In order to set up for printing, define a layout in the SAP system that specifies the data to be included in the printout. In this layout you can define one or more tables and set the number of graphics that you want to in appear in the printout.
To print an OMS, you need to use Microsoft Word 97. You generate a document in which you create and format the tables defined in Customizing for the OMS. In addition you can insert links to the graphics and to the individual fields in the document.
On printing, the SAP system sends the data to Microsoft Word and thereby fills the tables, inserts the graphics and then prints the document.

Before you begin printing, you can define the routings and line segments, for which you want to print an OMS, using extensive selection criteria. For example, you can print an OMS for all materials that are produced on the production line or on a specific line segment. You can also only print an OMS for several materials if the operations in the routing do not differ for these materials.

These detailed operational methods allow you to plan your personnel capacity flexibly using job rotation, as your employees can learn new activities quickly, using the OMS directly at the production line.

Requirements

Setting up the word processing system

To ensure smooth interaction between the SAP system and the word processing system, set the Options in Word 97, proceeding as follows:

  1. Choose Tools -> Options.
    2. The dialog box Options appears.
  2. Choose the tab page General, and de-select the indicators Update automatic links at Open and Macro virus protection.
  3. Choose the tab page Print and de-select the indicator Update links.
  4. Choose OK and exit Word.

Creating graphics in the system

Create the graphics in the system, which you want to print. You can use graphics with the graphic formats BMP, GIF and JPG.

  1. First of all check in Customizing for the document administration system whether the workstation applications are defined for the appropriate graphic formats. Pay attention to the following in the detail view:
    1. If you want to print bitmaps, you must have the file suffix BMP and MIME type image/x-ms-bmp .
    2. If you want to print GIF files, you must have the file suffix GIF and MIME type image/gif.
    3. If you want to print JPEG files, you must have the file suffix JPG and MIME type image/jpeg.
  2. Create the graphic as a document in the SAP Document management system. In the group Original, enter the work station application that is defined in Customizing and then choose the storage data of the graphic. Finally release the document.
  3. Afterwards create this document as a production resource/tool and assign it to the corresponding operation in the rate routing. For the production resource/tool number enter only a number from a specific number area (e.g. 800-900) in order to differentiate between the graphics and other documents, which you have also created as production resources/tools. You must enter this area later, when you create a layout in the SAP system.

Standard settings

Recommendation

  • As a rule, operational method sheets have the same layout enterprise- wide. Therefore you should first of all create a layout as template, in which you can enter general data, such as the company logo or page format settings. You can then copy this template for all other layouts that you want to create.
  • If you want to print several operations in one step, you can create an additional layout that you use for printing a cover sheet.

Activities

You must carry out the following steps to print an OMS:

Creating layout in the SAP system

  • First of all create a new template in the work step Header data template, by
    • selecting New entries
    • entering the name and the description of the template
    • entering the maximum number of graphics that you want to print per operation
    • entering the number area of the production resources/tools, in which you have placed the graphics
    • Save your entries.
  • In the work step Table assignment define the tables that you would like to print for each operation. Enter the following data:
    • a key for the table (freely definable)
    • the table, which sends the data to MS Word. You can, for example, choose the table OPR (operation data)
    • the current Table number in the Word document
    • whether the system is to automatically adjust the number of lines in the table in the Word document
    • which row is the First row of data in the Word document table
    • Save your entries.
  • In the work step Field assignment, assign the field name of an table in the SAP system to each column of the Word table. On printing, this field provides the data to Microsoft Word.
  • Save the layout so that you can edit the document in MS Word.

Creating a document in Microsoft Word 97

Select a template and then the function key Template to begin Microsoft Word.
The system automatically opens an empty document template in Microsoft Word, which contains the macros necessary for printing. Therefore you should always begin Word from Customizing for OMS.

Create the following objects in the Word document:

For each table that you have already defined in Customizing, create a table in Word. Note that Word numbers the tables in columns from top to bottom and from left to right. You must insert the tables in such a way that the table number corresponds to the number which you have entered in the template in the SAP system.
If you subsequently insert a table into a Word document, Word renumbers all following documents and you must update the layout in the SAP system.

  1. Insert links (placeholder) in the document for the graphics that you would like to print.
    1. To do so, select the function key Link and then select the desired graphic from the selection list. Whilst doing so, keep Microsoft Word constantly open in the background.
      The graphics have the key 'PS_PICTURE' followed by a two figure number.
    2. Choose Copy to clipboard. The system inserts the links onto the clipboard.
    3. Change to Microsoft Word and place the cursor on the place in the document in which you would like to insert the link.
    4. Then choose Edit -> Insert contents.
      5. A dialogue box appears.
    5. Choose Links.
    6. Choose OK.
      You have inserted the link.
    7. As well as links to graphics, you can also insert links to individual fields of a table in the SAP system. To do so, proceed as for inserting graphics. The selection list contains all fields of the tables of operation data OPR and task list header data TSK. You can insert all fields with a name beginning with OPR- or with TSK-.

      You should only insert operation data with templates for printing operations, since with cover sheets there is no operation assignment and the system cannot fill the field with data.

      You should only insert task list header data if you are printing an OMS for one material or from one routing only. Otherwise the system cannot assign the task list header data clearly. Instead, insert a table in the template if you would like to work with several materials and various routings.

    8. After you have inserted all objects and the data has been received from the SAP system, you can format the tables and if necessary insert further objects such as your company logo, for example. Word then prints these objects with every operation.
  2. You can save the layout and the document simultaneously in Microsoft Word by choosing Save.

Business Attributes
ASAP Roadmap ID 203   Establish Master Data 
Mandatory / Optional 2   Optional activity 
Critical / Non-Critical 2   Non-critical 
Country-Dependency A   Valid for all countries 
Assigned Application Components
Documentation Object Class Documentation Object Name Current line number Application Component Application Component Name
SIMG SIMG_CFMENUOLDPS 0 HLA0003900 Line design 
Maintenance Objects
Maintenance object type C   Customizing Object 
Assigned objects
Customizing Object Object Type Transaction Code Sub-object Do not Summarize Skip Subset Dialog Box Description for multiple selections
VC_TLDPS C - View cluster OLDPS  
History
Last changed by/on SAP  19990520 
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