March 5, 2014 2 minute read

Concept of Alternative Sequence of Operation and how it can be used in Production Order.

Alternative sequence

Alternative sequences contain operations that replace the operations in the standard sequence. They are used for example if

the production process in the order is changed for certain lot sizes or
alternative capacities are available that can be used as alternatives in the case of capacity bottlenecks

Now in the following screen shot it describes the standard sequence of Operation and the alternative sequence of operation.

Alternative Sequence of Operation is valid for the lot size 500 to 99999999. the branch operation is 0030 and the return operation is 0040.

Standard Sequence of Operation

Alternative Sequence of operation

Graphical Overview of Operation

So the above screen shot shows that the product can be produced either using the standard sequence of operation 0010–>0020—>0030—>0040—>0050 or else

using 0010—>0020—>0035(single operation in the alternative seq)—>0050(Thread Cutting).

Production Order Creation

Ensure in the Order type dependent Parameters the necessary configuration setting is included for the alternative sequence and in the below screen shot

sequence exchange value is set as 1-Always Automatic selection by lot size of alternative sequence.

Now in the below screen shot the order quantity is entered as 600,

In the operation overview of the production order the system automatically copies the sequence of operation as 0010–>0020—>0035—>0050.

Similarly for an order quantity of 100,the system copies the standard sequence of operation, that’s 0010—>0020—>0030—>0040–>0050.

Scenario 2:

In case if in the alternative sequence no lot size is maintained means(default from 1 to 99999999) then in the order type dependent parameters maintain the value

for sequence exchange as 2 – Manual selection,then during production order creation, the system issues the following popup to choose the sequence of

operation.

If No is selected means, then the system copies the standard sequence of operation and if Yes is selected then the alternative sequence of operation gets

copied into the production order.

Thanks for reading this blog.

Kindly share your comments.

Regards

Mangalraj.S

22 Comments

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Anupam Sharma

March 5, 2014 at 11:31 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Appreciate your efforts.

Regards,

Anupam Sharma

K M Kalyana Chakravarthy

March 5, 2014 at 11:50 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Again a good one. It is very helpful for new learners like me.

Thanks for sharing. It will be very appreciative if you can add parallel sequence also in this blog or can create another blog.

Regards

Kalyan

Senthilkumar SD

March 5, 2014 at 12:36 pm

Good one Mangal.

K V Kumar

March 5, 2014 at 4:42 pm

Hi Mangalraj,

Amazing document..I am a great fan of you....really helpful...at the same time include information on Parallel sequence or create a new one on this....Thanks for sharing the document....

Regards

Kumar

A S

March 6, 2014 at 5:05 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Thanks for sharing this document. How standard cost will be calculate if we use alternative sequence in routing while run standard cost? Whether it will be considered standard operation sequence or alternative sequence? where we have to define this settings?

Thanks

Mangalraj Senthamaraikannan

Blog Post Author

March 6, 2014 at 5:50 am

My sincere thanks to Anupam Sharma,Kalyan,Senthilkumar, K Kumar and AKS for adding

your comments.

I will include the parallel sequence of operation in this blog itself and will keep you posted.

when it comes to costing,in case if the alternative sequence is defined for a specific lot size

for example from 500 to 99999999,then when standard cost estimate is carried out and if

the lot size is entered as 500 in CK11N or the which is relevant to alternative sequence then

the system will pick the alternative sequence for costing purpose.(But ensure your costing

variant has the proper setting which considers the alternative sequence).

Regards

Mangalraj.S

Ramagiri Srinivas Rao

March 6, 2014 at 6:16 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Very good document. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Thanks & Regards,

Ramagiri

A S

March 6, 2014 at 9:30 am

HI Mangalraj,

Thanks for your reply. If we haven't mainatain any lot size ( by default 1 to 99999999 ) how the system will decide the operation sequence for the costing run? I assume that system will consider the very first one by defualt. Could you please confirm?

Thanks

Sundhu M

March 6, 2014 at 9:18 am

Hi Mangal,

Thanks for sharing the concept. Its really great effort, appreciated!!

I can able to recall this though I moved to other module (PLM).

Regards,

Sundhu

Mohd Tallha Sonalkar

March 6, 2014 at 2:44 pm

Hi Mangal,

Excellent document ,

Keep it up

SAP Bagur

March 7, 2014 at 9:35 am

Hi Mangalraj ,

Excellent document . Thanks for sharing your Knowledge.

You , Rupesh and Caetano are Gems of SAP PP forum ,

Regards,

Daya.....

Former Member

March 10, 2014 at 10:21 am

hi, there:

Very nice documentation. Appreciate it.

cheers

ray

Former Member

March 10, 2014 at 10:29 am

Thanks for the document.

Prince 99

March 11, 2014 at 11:39 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Perfect displaying routing concept.

Thanks

Shailendra Yadav

Former Member

March 21, 2014 at 7:21 am

Dear mangalraj,

I appreciate your efforts for making such nice document. Really helpful!

Regards

Engr. Qazi Raheel Ahmed

Prashant Deshpande

March 24, 2014 at 7:34 am

HI,

Thanks for sharing this....

Thanks

Prashant

Maulik Vania

April 17, 2014 at 10:02 am

Hello,

Really nice explanation and short but in-depth.Than you for sharing. 🙂

Regards,

Maulik

Former Member

July 26, 2014 at 12:31 am

Mangal

A clear explanation of the Alternate sequence setup in Routings. Appreciate your efforts.

Regards

Deepak

Former Member

January 26, 2015 at 11:53 am

Thanx for sharing!

Do you have a hint for me?

I use alternative seq. Everything working sofar.

But when printig, wrong seq number is printed in title (seq 0, standard-seq).

The operations are though the correct ones.

Greets

Rafael

Former Member

May 31, 2015 at 7:32 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Great article! I appreciate the efforts you took to compile this. Could you please throw some light on whether this works when CIFed to APO?

Regards,

Subhash

Rajib debnath

January 11, 2019 at 5:10 am

Hi Mangalraj,

Very informative document. Can you please include a scenario for parallel sequence as well.
Also how the capacity planning and order sequencing will behave if a alternate sequence exists?

jeevan jagadale

November 1, 2022 at 4:00 am

This is a really very helpful document. All aspects are covered in one document. Thank you so much for sharing this. If possible please make a document of Parallel sequence.

Concept of Alternative Sequence of Operation and how it can be used in Production Order.

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