Routing - III

Q: Can we use same routing for materials undergoing the same process/operations? Can we avoid separate routing for each and every material produced?
A1: Presume that there are 50 products and the fabrication shop uses a set of 10 machines. If all these products use the same settings of the machines, Reference Operation Sets (task list type S) can be setup for common processes that use the same work centers. However costing, scheduling and capacity will be affected if each product has different setup time and Reference Operation sets can not be used.
A routing for each material number ( type N or R) has to be set up and within that routing, the Reference Operation Set can be used.
However you can by try utilizing the KMAT material and product variants invariant configuration to avoid separate routing for each material.
A2: You may create a routing group. Go into routing creation and enter the plant and the group name. If you want you may name the group , else name is assigned by internal counter). Create the routing with the work centers, operation times, etc. Go to the "Header overview" screen and click on the "Mat Alloc" screen. Fill in the blanks with all the material masters that use this routing.