Manufacturing overview
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Work orders
When you need to build or maintain an item by a specific completion date you initiate a work order. You can initiate a work order on the Work order page, or you can create a work order as a direct order when tracking a receipt from production to a bill of material, from a stock reorder suggestion or an MRP suggestion, or when a sales order is confirmed.
The bill of material defines the list of components needed for the finished item, the material requirements. The routing associated with the finished item defines the sequence of shop floor processes needed to build or maintain the item or bill of material as individual operations and which machines, tools and operators to involve in the production process.
See Work order: Shop floor documents for a summary of what the printed documents types offer and how to change their layouts to suit your organisation.
See Understanding production costs for a detailed explanation of how the component and release item planned cost are calculated.
On the Work order planning page you can combine several production recommendations that satisfy your stock shortages together on one work order. This is an efficient way of managing your supply chain operations and an effective way of ensuring suggested materials are available at the required times to fulfill your schedule.
Reserving stock for production
You can optionally reserve some or all component stock in advance of production. Reserving stock can ensure that delays to production are avoided, and a possible increase in production costs are avoided as the components are available when needed for production.
On the Work order page, you can reserve stock for an individual work order.
On the Work order mass allocation page, you can reserve some or all component stock at a site or clear all stock reserved at a site.
Trackings
After you have created a work order you can track progress from production. All trackings update the progress of a work order and the cost of producing an item for a work order.
On the Production tracking page you track receipt of manufactured items, the finished items received from production for a work order. As you track receipt of finished items, you can simultaneously track consumption quantities for the operations and the components used to make the finished items. You can backflush and consume operations, resources and components in proportion to received quantities of the released items based on the quantities defined in the routing or in the bill of materials, if they are available for tracking. This saves you time as you do not need to manually enter time and material tracking details.
If you're not backflushing components used in production automatically, on the Material tracking page you can record which components were issued from stock and consumed for a work order.
If you're not backflushing resource operation times and operation quantities used in production automatically, on the Time tracking page you can record setup and run times, and quantities processed for a specific operation sequence number for a work order.
Manufacturing inquiries
Each tracking type is supported by 2 inquiry pages.
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You use the single inquiry page to check the status of a saved tracking and to view individual documents.
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You use the tracking line inquiry page when you need visibility of all your tracking data at line level.
Production tracking line inquiry
If a tracking posting failed and an error is displayed on the inquiry page, after resolving the error you can re-post the tracking record from the inquiry.
On the Work in progress transaction inquiry page, you can view costs from completed trackings, and costs and variances for closed work orders.
On the Work in progress inquiry page, you can view a summary of costs for all work orders in progress at a single production site.
