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Process Messages for Automation and
Efficiency
Robbie Norris
Jean Liu
[ Eastman Chemical
 A global manufacturer of chemicals, plastics and
fibers headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee
 Approximately 10,000 employees and over 20
manufacturing sites around the globe
 A company dedicated to environmental
stewardship, social responsibility and economic
growth
 2011 Sales revenue of $7.2 billion
 Traded on the NYSE under symbol EMN
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[ Highly integrated, diverse businesses
Coatings, Adhesives,
Specialty Polymers & Inks
Specialty Plastics
Fibers
Performance Chemicals & Intermediates
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[ Where our products are found
Building &
construction
Tobacco
16%
Packaging
15%
17%
Consumer
goods
Health &
wellness
9%
9%
Other
2%
Durable goods
8%
Energy, fuels
& water
3%
Electronics
3%
Agriculture
3%
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Transportation
Industrial
chemicals
7%
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[ Learning Points
 Process Message 101
 Capabilities of a Process Message
 Possible Scenarios for using a Process Message
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[ Manufacturing Overview
Process
Planning
Process
Management
Process
Order
Control
Recipe
Process
Control
Execution
Process
Control
System
Other
Destinations
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Process
Messages
PI Sheet
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[ What is a Process Message
 “Communication structure that is used to transfer process
data from process control…”
 SAP delivers standard messages out of box
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Goods Issue Posting
Goods Receipt Posting
Batch Creation
Phase Confirmation
And many more!
 Fully Customizable
 Copy and modify standard messages
 Create your own messages to do anything (not just data from a
PCS)
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[ What is a Process Message – cont’d
 Elements of the Process Message
 Process Message Category
 Process Message Destination
 Characteristics
 Destinations of a process message
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1 - Other SAP components (i.e. function module)
2 - User-defined ABAP table
3 - Users of the SAPoffice mail system
4 - External function modules
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[ Why Use a Process Message?
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Volume of data – No manual entry or limited entry
Buffering capability
Monitoring capability
Order of manufacturing process may not be what SAP expects
Good way to avoid or re-process record locks
Avoid commit in update tasks
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[ Creating a Process Message
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Process operator on a PCS system
Automated Control system
Semi-Automatically with SAP OPC/ODA
Transaction C057
Within an ABAP Program
 BAPI_PROCESS_MESSAGE_CREATEMLT
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[ Process Message Monitoring
 Transaction C054
 Select by criteria
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Plant
Date/Time
Sender
Process Order
Message Category
Statuses
 Message Processing in the Monitor
 Change Message
 Send a Message
 Delete Message
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[ Examples of Process Message Configuration
 The Message Destination
Production Plannning for Process Industries ->Process Management ->Process Messages -> Process Message Destinations
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[ Examples of Process Message Configuration - cont’d
 Message Destination Fields
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[ Examples of Process Message Configuration - cont’d
 The Process Message Category
 The Process Message Category Characteristics
Production Plannning for Process Industries
->Process Management ->Process Messages
-> Define and Set Up Process Message
Categories
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[ Examples of Process Message Configuration - cont’d
 Assignment of Characteristics to the Destination Fields
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[ Control Recipes
 Process Instructions built into the process order
 Define processes to be executed by a process operator
 OR executed by a process control system
 Process Order must be configured for sending
 Sent from SAP to a PCS in a ‘process message like’ structure
 Comparison to a process message
 Sent from SAP -> PCS on release of process order
 Monitored with transaction CO53 instead of CO54 (Process
Messages)
 Configured in customizing similarly to a PM
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[ Control Recipe Monitoring
 Transaction C053
 Select by criteria
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Plant
Date/Time
Destination
Process Order
Statuses
 Individual Recipe Display
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[ Eastman Architecture
SAP
ODA Interface
Process Messages
Control Recipes
Process Messages
OSI Software
PSRLink
SAP OPC
PIMS
(Eastman Custom Apps)
PI
DCS
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[ SAP Delivered Process Messages
 PI_PROD – Posting a Goods
Receipt
 101 Movement
 Scenarios used by Eastman
 Manual trigger
 Automated trigger
 Timer
 Event Based
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[ SAP Delivered Process Messages – cont’d
 PI-CONS – Goods Issue
Posting
 261Movement
 Scenario
 Used if backflushing is not set
up on a process order
 Triggered automatically and
manually
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[ SAP Delivered Process Messages – cont’d
 PI-PHCONS – Confirmation
of Phases
 261Movement
 Scenario
 Triggers backflushing on the
process order
 Triggered automatically and
manually
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[ SAP Delivered Process Messages – cont’d
 Other Frequently Used Messages
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PI_BT_CR – Batch Creation
PI_ORDCO – Confirms Order
PI_PHST – Set Status of the Phase
PI_CRST – Set Status of the Control Recipe
PI_BT_CL – Assign Values to Batch Characteristics
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[ Business Cases for Eastman Customized Process Messages
 Used in Business Areas
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Quality Management
Inventory Management
Logistics
Waste Disposals
 Advantages
 Asynchronous updates
 Ability to reprocess the errors
 Communication with Remote Systems
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - QM
 Quality Management
 YQA01 - Create Inspection Lot
 YBATCHCK - Adjust Batch status to Blocked if quality is out of
Specification
 YPKB - Create the Parent-Child relationship between a Bulk
Material and a Packaged Material
 YMD3 – Update quality of the child package material
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages – QM
 Quality Management
 YQA01 - Create
Inspection Lot
 Scenario  Create In-process
Inspection Lots
 Create Inspection lot for
lab analysis prior to
Report Production
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - QM
 Quality Management
 YBATCHCK Adjust Batch status to
Blocked if quality is out
of Specification
 Scenario  Re-evaluate the Batch
quality and change
Batch Stock status
accordingly after silo
transfer
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - QM
 Quality Management
 YPKB - Create the
Parent-Child relationship
between a Bulk Material
and a Packaged Material
 YMD3 – triggered by
UD follow up to copy
result to child packages
 Scenario  Lab tests not complete
prior to the repack
process
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - IM
 Inventory Management
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YGMNCHG
YPRODADJ
YINVADJ
YXFER
 YPRD_NPO
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- Change Material Number
- Adjust production against Process Order
- Adjust Inventory Quantity
- Transfer inventory from one material to
another material, from one batch to
another batch or from one location to
another location.
- Create Process Order and Post Production
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages – IM
 Inventory Management
 YGMNCHG Change Material Number
 Scenario  Downgrade a Material
 Move inventory out of
blocked stock if needed
(343)
 Change Material
number while in
unrestricted Stock(309)
 Move new material into
blocked stock(344)
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - IM
 Inventory Management
 YPRODADJ - Adjust
production against
Process Order
 Scenario  Re-weigh a package due
to damage
 Calculate the quantity
changed
 Adjust quantity against
the original process
order
 Achieve accurate
Product Costing
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - IM
 Inventory Management
 YINVADJ - Adjust
tank or silo inventory
 Scenario  Estimate Back flush
consumption
 Conduct scheduled
physical inventory
 Determine which
movement type to use
(911 or 912)
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - IM
 Inventory Management
 YXFER – Create Material
Movements
 Scenario –
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Change Material
Change Batch
Change Storage Location
Report by-product
Report consumption
Report production
Goods Issue for Cost Center
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - IM
 Inventory Management
 YPRD_NPO – Create
Process Order and Post
Production
 Scenario –
 At the end of a production
run, create Process Order
and report production for a
heel or waste.
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages – Logistics
 Logistics – Truck and Railcar
 YRAILXFR – Transfer inventory from Tank Batch to Shipping
Batch for shipment
 YRAILADJ - Adjust the actual shipping weight
 YRAILWE – Perform weight entry of a Delivery Note
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - Logistics
 Logistics
 YRAILXFR - Transfer
inventory from Tank
Batch to Shipping
Batch for shipment
 Scenario  Use movement type
311
 Triggered from SAP
application
 Uses process message
so errors can be
investigated at a later
date
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - Logistics
 Logistics
 YRAILADJ - Adjust
railcar shipping weight
 Scenario  The original silo-torailcar transfer quantity
was estimated. The new
quantity is the actual
scale weight for the
railcar batch.
 Determine which
movement type to use
(911 or 912)
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages - Logistics
 Logistics
 YRAILWE – Perform
Weight Entry of the
Delivery Note
 Scenario  Railcar operator
responsible for entering
the weight.
 Shipping office
personnel responsible
for correcting issues
with Delivery Note
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages – Waste
Disposal
 Semi-Automatic Drum Disposal
 YTXDRWT
- Drum Weigh
 YTXDRLD
- Drum Load
 Scenario
 Trigger by SAP OPC on Drum conveyor
 Integrates SAP ODA with Process Messages
 SAP subscribes to certain drum DCS items/tags of a
DA server
 Value change event of an drum DCS item/tag
automatically creates process messages
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[ Drum Loading Process
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[ Eastman Customized Process Messages – Remote
 Communication Messages from SAP to Remote Systems
 OSI_COMM – Destination type 2
 Tank or Silo Inventory updates
 Quality Updates after Automated Usage Decision
 Material Movements for Trending
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[ Best Practices
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Use SAP delivered process messages whenever possible
Production staff should monitor messages daily
Buffering capability should exist on the remote system
Use automated re-send capability when required
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[ Key Learnings
 Process messages are ‘structures of data’ passed to SAP
 Control Recipes are process instructions sent to a PCS
 SAP delivered process messages perform many common
functions
 Copy or create process messages to meet your business
processes
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