Manufacturing & Quality
What is Work Center?
A location or resource where operations are performed, holding capacity, scheduling, and costing data.
Work centers link to cost centers and activity types for costing. Capacity evaluation uses their available capacity. In PP-PI, the equivalent object is the resource.
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Routing
A master data object listing the operations, work centers, and standard times to produce a material.
Activity Type
A CO unit of output from a cost center, such as machine hours, valued at a planned rate.
Cost Center
A CO object representing an organizational area where costs are incurred, such as a department.
Capacity Planning
Comparing capacity requirements with available capacity at work centers and leveling load.
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