What is 'reference operation' in SAP PP-PEO - Production Engineering and Operations?

reference operation - Overview

• Component: PP-PEO

• Component Name: Production Engineering and Operations

• Description: A type of reference template that you can insert into a shop floor routing structure. A reference operation has one operation that contains any number of operation activity groups and operation activities. In addition, basic work instructions, inspection characteristics, PRTs, documents, qualifications, and buyoffs can be assigned to the operation activities of the operation. Once used in shop floor routings, these assignments coming from the template cannot be changed or deleted. However, you can make certain local changes. Reference operations can only be created and changed in the Manage Templates app.

reference operation - Details

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  Key Concepts: 
  Reference operation is a feature in SAP Production Engineering and Operations (PP-PEO) that allows users to create a template for a production order. This template can be used to quickly create new production orders with the same characteristics as the original. This feature is especially useful for repetitive production orders. 
  
  How to use it: 
  To use the reference operation feature, users must first create a production order with all the desired characteristics. Then, they can save this order as a reference operation template. When creating a new production order, users can select the reference operation template and all of the characteristics will be automatically filled in. 
  
  Tips & Tricks: 
  When creating a reference operation template, it is important to make sure that all of the desired characteristics are included. This will ensure that all future production orders created using this template will have the same characteristics as the original. 
  
  Related Information: 
  Reference operations are closely related to production versions, which are templates for production orders that can be used to quickly create new orders with similar characteristics. Both reference operations and production versions are useful for creating repetitive production orders.