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Attention: You cannot create flow routings for planning or pick-to-order items.

Prerequisites

   You must define at least one department before you can create a routing.

   BOM Allowed must be set to Yes for the item you are creating a routing for.

Note: You can create a routing manually, copy an existing routing, or reference a common routing. See: Copying Bills and Routings and Referencing Common Bills and Routings.

   To create a flow routing:

1. Navigate to the Routing window.

2. Select the item for which you are creating a flow routing.

Note: You can create a flow routing for a product family item.

3. If you are creating an alternate flow routing, enter an alternate. For a primary flow routing, do not enter an alternate. See: Primary and Alternate Routings.

Note: You can also create alternate standard (non-flow) routings for the same item.

4. Enter the line for which you are creating the flow routing.

5. If you are updating an existing flow routing, enter the routing revision and the effective date. See: Creating a Routing Revision and Routing Revisions.

Note: Items can have flow and non-flow routings. To define non-flow revisions, you must switch to the Bills of Material Responsibility.

6. Enter a total cycle time for the flow routing.

The total cycle time can be manually input or calculated by your application. To calculate this value, select Calculate Total Cycle Time from the Special menu. The cursor must be in the Total Cycle Time field.

7. If you would like this item to be considered in the capable to promise capacity check , select the Capable to Promise button. See: Capable to Promise.

Note: Capable to promise describes an available to promise calculation that considers both available material and capacity of manufacturing and distribution resources. You are able to define one and only one CTP routing for each item.

8. Select a display option to display All, Current, or Future and Current operations effective as of the revision date you specify.

9. Select Events, Processes, or Line Operations to define the elements of your flow routing.

10. To copy an existing flow routing, choose Copy Routing From in the Special menu and select an item to copy.

11. Enter the operation sequence. See: Item and Operation Sequence.

Note: The operation sequence and code must be unique for each flow routing.

The Routings window has four alternative regions: Main, WIP, Operation Times, and Description.

12. If you are creating a flow routing for events, click the Event Resources button and define resource values. For an event, you can also define a department, parent process, and parent line operation.

13. Enter an effective date range. See: Effective Date Fields.

14. For operations in ATO model or option class flow routings only, indicate whether the operation is option dependant, that is, whether the operation is dependant on the choice of an optional component. All mandatory components and their related operations appear on the routing for each configuration. The default is enabled. See: Overview of Configure to Order.

15. Optionally, enter the item's manufacturing lead time percent required to complete all previous operations on the routing. See: Calculating Manufacturing Lead Times.

If the manufacturing lead time equals 10 days and all previous operations combined require 2 days, the lead time percent is 20%.

16. Open WIP alternative region and select Count Point and Autocharge options. See: Count Point and Autocharge and Charge Type.

Indicate whether to backflush components on shop floor moves at this operation. A backflush transaction automatically pulls operation pull components from inventory. Work in Process also pulls all Operation pull components at non-backflush operations preceding this operation (through the previous completed backflush operation.) See: Backflush Transaction Options.

17. Enter the minimum transfer quantity of assemblies to move from this operation to the next. Work in Process will warn you if you attempt to move a number less than this value. If you used a standard operation, this value defaults to minimum transfer quantity defined for the standard operation. Otherwise the default is 0.

Note: Use attachments, such as operation method sheets, for routing operations. See: Attaching Files.

18. To enter completion subinventory and locator information or view a common flow routing, choose the Routing Details button to open the Routing Details window. See: Completion Subinventory and Locator.

19. If this item is a member of a product family then specify in the Routing Details window.

20. If you would like to include this flow routing in a mixed model map, then click the Mixed Model map button in the Routing Details window.

Note: You can only select one routing for an item to be included in a mixed model map.

21. While in the Routing Details window, optionally, enter a priority.

22. Open the Operation Times alternative region to define or calculate operation times.

23. To use system calculated operation times, select Calculate Operation Times from the Special menu.

You can also enter your own values. These values are used in Mixed Model Map calculations.

   To create a flow routing network:

1. From the Routing window, click the Routing Network button.

2. Select Processes or Line Operations from the poplist.

3. Select a range of operations and sequence codes and select their type of connection.

4. Enter a percentage for the connection type.

See Also

Defining Flow Manufacturing Standard Events

Mixed Model Map

Defining Flow Manufacturing Line Operations