About Importing Process Orders

This topic provides a list of parameters related to a process order, and specifies whether they you can update them using a process order import document (POID).

• processOrderName: Unique identifier for the process order in Plant Applications. A value is required. The following conditions apply when you provide a process order name:
  • You can create a process order in Plant Applications by providing a name in the POID. The process order name must be unique for the production unit.
  • You cannot update a process order name using a POID.
• plannedLineName: Identifies the production line on which the process order will be executed. A value is required only if you want to use schema version 1. For schema version 2, if you do not provide a production line, the process order is created as unbound.
• producedMaterialName: Identifies the material (or product) associated with the process order. In the B2MML format, it is represented by MaterialDefinitionID. This is the product code of the actual product used in the production event in Plant Applications. The following conditions apply when you provide the material name:
  • You can import a process order only if the material name matches the product code of an actual product in Plant Applications.
  • You cannot update a material name using a POID.
• path: Supports binding a process order to a line that is configured with multiple paths; if supplied, and the path is on the specified line, the process order is bound to the path.
• plannedQuantity: Identifies the planned quantity of the product specified in the process order. You can update the quantity only if the producedMaterialName matches the corresponding name in Plant Applications.
• plannedStartDate and plannedEndDate: Identify the planned start and end dates to execute the process order. If you do not provide a value for plannedStartDate, the current date is considered. If you do not provide a value for plannedEndDate, the day next to plannedStartDate is considered.
• bomFormulation: Identifies the BOM formulation of the product specified in the process order.
• propertyName and propertyValue: Identify properties and their values of a process order. The following conditions apply when you provide values of properties in a POID:
  • If you want to create a process order using a POID, you can add properties and their values. If you want to update a process order using a POID, you can only update the values of the existing properties in Plant Applications; in this case, any new properties that you add will be skipped.
  • Only if a property exists in the ProcessOrder Import property group in Plant Applications, can you update the property value. Otherwise, the property is skipped. For more information, refer to:
    • About Property Definitions
    • Create a Property Definition
  • If the POID does not contain a property as defined for the process order in Plant Applications, it is skipped when you import the POID.
  Note: User-defined properties are not supported.