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 individual production steps that need to be performed.

Apart from control information, the PI 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 PI sheets in Normal SAP

1. ABAP based PI sheets
2. Browser based PI sheets

  We shall concentrate on the later version that is browser based PI sheets 

1 Master Data:

  

1. Material Master
2. BOM
3. Master Recipe.

     

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. 

1. SPRO–>Production planning for Processindustries–>Process management–>Standard settings

  

 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. Transfer to ABAP list based PI sheet
2. Download to ext. system, initiated by SAP process management
3. Download to ext. system, initiated by ext. process control
4. Transfer to browser-based PI sheet

Path: SPRO–>Production planning for Process industries–>Process managementà–>Decentralized Process Management

     –>Define and Set Up Control Recipe Destinations      

 

Here in the work area enter the plant and select enter. Now double click the HTML-PI sheet (05) to open it.

Here it has the destination type 4 which will enable to create browser based PI 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 are standard process message characteristics available in SAP which can be transported to the local client.

All standard characteristics for process messages starts with ‘PPPI’ and cannot be changed. If we require additional

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
transfer to external system etc.  The 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 client; 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 Categories

 

The message categories will have process instruction characteristics assigned

 

Each Message will have destinations with their respective address assigned

 

We can create multiple destinations in a single message category. 

Now each destination needs to be assigned characteristics to update the target fields