ProcessProductionOrder — Production order

OAGIS BOD combining the verb Process and the noun ProductionOrder. Business cornerstone of the manufacturing domain in the OAGIS 10.x ecosystem.

BOD purpose

The ProcessProductionOrder BOD pushes a production order from the ERP (which decides what to make) to the MES (which executes it): item, quantity, date, reserved resources. Central building block of the ERP↔MES stitching.

Structure (ApplicationArea + DataArea)

As every OAGIS BOD, ProcessProductionOrder stacks an ApplicationArea technical envelope (Sender, BODID, CreationDateTime) and a DataArea business payload containing the verb Process and the noun ProductionOrder.

XML example

Minimal OAGIS 10.x payload for didactic purposes. The structural elements (header + business line) are required in any conformant implementation.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ProcessProductionOrder
    xmlns="http://www.openapplications.org/oagis/10"
    releaseID="10.11" versionID="10.11">

  <ApplicationArea>
    <Sender>
      <LogicalID>ERP-CENTRAL-EU</LogicalID>
      <ComponentID>ManufacturingModule</ComponentID>
      <ConfirmationCode>OnError</ConfirmationCode>
    </Sender>
    <CreationDateTime>2026-05-16T10:15:00Z</CreationDateTime>
    <BODID>5a8f7d2e-2b15-4c1a-9e6f-processproductionorder-2026-0014</BODID>
  </ApplicationArea>

  <DataArea>
    <Process>
      <ActionCriteria>
        <ActionExpression actionCode="Add"/>
      </ActionCriteria>
    </Process>
    <ProductionOrder>
      <ProductionOrderHeader>
        <DocumentID><ID>FO-2026-04522</ID></DocumentID>
        <DocumentDateTime>2026-05-16T09:00:00Z</DocumentDateTime>
        <Item><ItemIDs><ID>C60SP-2P-16A</ID></ItemIDs></Item>
        <Quantity unitCode="EA">1500</Quantity>
        <PlannedStartDateTime>2026-05-18T06:00:00Z</PlannedStartDateTime>
        <PlannedEndDateTime>2026-05-21T18:00:00Z</PlannedEndDateTime>
        <MachineReference><ID>STAMP-LINE-3</ID></MachineReference>
      </ProductionOrderHeader>
    </ProductionOrder>
  </DataArea>
</ProcessProductionOrder>

Use case

SAP S/4HANA pushes a ProcessProductionOrder to Siemens Opcenter requesting 1,500 C60SP-2P-16A circuit breakers on line 3 between 2026-05-18 and 2026-05-21.

EDI equivalents

No direct EDI counterpart on the gateway: this BOD is strictly internal to the OAGIS / ERP ecosystem, with no openly standardised EDIFACT or X12 counterpart.

Further reading

• OAGi — OAGIS 10.x — official spec page and free download.
• OAGi (OAGIS) — hub on ediverse — BOD architecture, verbs, canonical model.
• EDIFACT on ediverse — comparison baseline for BODs with EDIFACT counterpart.
• X12 on ediverse — comparison baseline for BODs with X12 counterpart.