A Beginner's Guide To PI sheets
Introduction:
PI Sheets in general can be used to describe the total production process or a part of it. The PI sheet is
Used to inform the process operator about the indivdual production steps that need to be performed,
‘Apart ftom control information, the Pl sheet can contain input fields and pushbuttons. You can, for example,
define fields into which you want the process operator to enter the quantity of material components
‘consumed for a phase. The material withdrawals must then be posted as goods issues in inventory
management. You can use process messages to automatically carry out this function.
In General there are two types of Pl sheets in Nommal SAP
1. ABAP based PI sheets
2. Browser based Pl sheets
We shall concentrate on the later version that is browser based PI sheets
Master Data:
Material Master
BOM
Mastor Recipe.
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2 Configuration Requirements
In the initial step transport all the predefined characteristics, message categories and display variants
predefined by SAP from the reference client to our logon client
SPRO->Production planning for Process industries->Process management->Standard settings
> B __ Production Planning for Process Industries
> Master Data
Sales & Operations Planning (SOP)
Production Planning
Production Optimization Interface
Material Requirements Planning
‘Capacty Planning
Production Campaign
Detailed Process Planning Using PFS
Process Order
Process Management
B __ standard settings
+ B @ Adopt Predefined Characteristics
+ B @ Adopt Predefined Message Categories
+ B @ adopt Predefined Display Variants
DUEPEPERETD
Here transport all the standard settings to your local client.3 Control Recipes and Control Recipe Destinations
Control recipes are used to transfer the control data defined in the process order by the user to the process
Control. The control data like process instructions assigned to the phase are transferred to their respective
destinations assigned in the phase.
Control Recipe Destinations: SAP standard has Four types of recipe destinations defined
1, Transfor to ABAP list based PI shat
2. Download to ext. system, inated by SAP process management
3. Download to ext. system, initiated by ext. process control
4. Transfer to browser-based Pl sheet
Path: SPRO-->Production planning for Process industries~>Process management->Decentralized
Process Management ->Define and Set Up Control Recipe Destinations
Proc. Control Sys. 1
Ex PLGeneraton
Proc. Control Sys. 2
HTMLPI sheet op 2
Temoate THS
Here in the work area enter the plant and select enter. Now double click the HTML-P! sheet (05) to open it.
Here it has the destination type 4 which will enable tocreate browser based Pl sheets. In the destinations,
we can assign digital signatures for the process steps. Here we can have levels of approvals defined for the
process step.
4 Process Message Characteristics
There ate standard process message characteristics avellable in SAP which can be transported to the local
client
Al standard characteristics for process messages starts with ‘PPI’ and cannot be chenged. if we require
addtional characteristics then user can create them as per the business requirement,
Path: SPRO-->Production planning for Process industries->Process management-> Process
Messages->Define Characteristics for Process Messages
Process Messages and Destinations: Process Messages are used to transfer the process data from
process control to the defined destinations. Process messages trigger various business functions such as
Gi, GR, mail trigger, data transfor to external systam otc. Tho actual data entered in the system are
transferred to the respective work areas defined in the destinations. The process message categories
contains the process instruction characteristics, message destinations and the characteristics which the
destination needs to update. Standard SAP contains several Process messages which can be transported
to the local cliont; in addition we can create new messages with destinations as per the business need.
Path: SPRO-->Production planning for Process industries->Process management-> Process
Messages-->Define and Set Up Process Message CategoriesEach Message will have destinations with their respective address assigned