Production Supply Area

Definition

The production supply area exists directly in the

production area. You stage the material in the production
supply area in productions storage bins, so that it can be
removed directly for production.

The production supply area groups together work centers

near to production storage bins, taking the material
staging type into consideration.

Use

You create the production supply area per plant and

storage location in Customizing for Warehouse
Management under Interfaces Define
Production Production Supply Area Maintain . You
group together the work centers under supply areas,
based on the work center master data. To control material
staging you define the supply area in the BOM or the
material master of the component.

During production supply area determination, the system

takes the supply area from the work center master data
during production supply area determination. If no
information on the supply area is available there, the
system first searches in the BOM and then in the material
master for the source supply area.
Figure 10: Production Supply Area
Note
If you have assigned a material to several supply areas
within the same storage location, the system displays all of
the material stocks in the assigned supply areas in the
stock overview for the storage location.