Manufacturing Areas (MAA)
The Manufacturing area is a logical area in manufacturing, which replaces the Prodline. It is a method to group various articles in production. You can filter the articles by manufacturing area in various applications such as PWO and PRODPLAN. It is also used to set the leadtime in production. For more information on leadtime in production, refer to Leadtime.
To open MAA, enter MAA in the program field and select the Enter key.
Select Create new manufacturing area and enter a name for the new manufacturing area.
Select Create. The new manufacturing area name is displayed in the right pane. The status is Status 1 (Pending registration).
Enter a description for the manufacturing area in Description.
To activate the new manufacturing area, select Operations > Activate from the context menu. The new manufacturing area is now set in Status 4 (Active)
Select the location from the Location list and specify the lead time in days. Select OK to save your changes.
Note
To set the lead time for the manufacturing area, select Set leadtime from the context menu. Setting leadtime in MAA changes the Leadtime for this location in the ART.