SAP ABAP Data Element PPE_DURATION_MODE (Usage Type of the Rounding Value)
Hierarchy
☛ EA-IPPE (Software Component) SAP iPPE
   ⤷ AP-PPE (Application Component) Integrated Product and Process Engineering
     ⤷ CPPEACT (Package) ACT-Specific iPPE Objects
Basic Data
Data Element PPE_DURATION_MODE
Short Description Usage Type of the Rounding Value  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type PPE_DURATION_MODE    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name DURATION_RND_MODE   
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Rndg Usage 
Medium 22 Use of Rounding Val. 
Long 25 Usage of Rounding Value 
Heading 25 Usage of Rounding Value 
Documentation

Definition

Sates whether and how the rounding value for calculating the production time is used. The system rounds the activity duration up to the next value that is evenly divisible by the rounding value. This allows you to represent activity durations which increase in steps.

There are three options:

  • The rounding value is not used
  • Quantity/Duration (Rate)
    • For example, a piece of equipment requires 10 minutes to process 5 pieces of a material simultaneously. In this case, you enter 5 for the rounding value and 10 for the variable duration of the activity.

The activity must be completed once in order to process an order for 5 pieces. The machine needs 1x10 minutes=10 minutes.
The activity must be completed twice in order to process an order for 7 pieces. The machine needs 2x10=20 minutes.
Note that you must account for rounding errors when you use this setting.

  • Increment (Size of Step)
    • You have another piece of equipment that also requires 10 minutes to process 5 pieces of the material simultaneously. In this case, the variable duration always refers to a unit of measurement of the product being processed and would be 2 minutes for 1 piece in this case. As 5 pieces are always processed simultaneously, the increment in this case is 10 minutes.

To process an order for 7 pieces, the activity must be completed twice, that is, 2x10 = 20 minutes.
History
Last changed by/on SAP  20040316 
SAP Release Created in 46C2