Using Work Order Scheduling and Rate Schedules

This chapter provides an overview of work order scheduling and rate schedules and discusses how to:

• Revise work order status information.

• Schedule items on a production line.

• Sequence rates by classification scheme.

Understanding Work Order Scheduling and Rate Schedules

As part of scheduling activities, you can monitor work order progress, manage work order releases, and update the status of any order to ensure the validity of the material requirements planning (MRP) and master production scheduling (MPS) schedules. When you work with schedules, you can display manufacturing work orders by item, planner, customer, parent work order, status, type, priority, or a combination of these. You can display work orders by start date or requested date. You can also access related information, such as associated work orders, sales orders, purchase orders, parts lists, and routing instructions.

Note. If you use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capacity Requirements Planning system, it reads the routing instructions for work orders and rate schedules and monitors the load on the involved work centers. This process enables you to manage the loads on the work centers to maximize production and meet scheduled demand.

After you have established the production schedule, you print scheduling information and run the production in a work center.

Repetitive manufacturing involves consistent demand for a family of products that can be built on dedicated production lines. To use the capacity of the production lines efficiently, you schedule and sequence items using the Line Scheduling Workbench (P3153) and the Line Sequencing Workbench (P3156) programs.

Revising Work Order Status Information

After a work order is on the shop floor, you can review the order and the capacity of each work center through which the order is scheduled. When you review a work order, you can change the status, type, priority rating, freeze code designation, and type of flash message.

This section discusses how to:

• Set processing options for the Shop Floor Workbench program (P31225).

• Revise work order status information.

Form Used to Revise Work Order Status Information

Setting Processing Options for the Shop Floor Workbench Program (P31225)

Processing options enable you to specify the default processing for programs and reports.

Default 1

Default 2

Versions 1

If you leave these fields blank, the system uses default version ZJDE0001.

Versions 2

If you leave these processing options blank, the system uses default version ZJDE0001.

Interoperability

Revising Work Order Status Information

Access the Work Order Status Update form.

Type	Enter a value from UDC 00/TY (Work Order/ECO Type) that indicates the classification of a work order or engineering change order. You can use work order type as a selection criterion for work order approvals.
Priority	Enter a value from UDC 00/PR (Work Order Priority) that indicates the relative priority of a work order or engineering change order in relation to other orders. A processing option for some forms enables you to enter a default value for this field. The value then displays automatically in the appropriate fields on any work order that you create on those forms and on the Project Setup form. You can either accept or override the default value.
Flash Msg (flag message)	Enter a value from UDC 00/WM (Work Order Flash Message) that indicates a change in the status of a work order. The system indicates a changed work order with an asterisk in the appropriate report or inquiry form field. The system highlights the flash message in the Description field of the work order.
Freeze Y/N (freeze yes/no)	Enter a code that indicates if the line on the order is frozen. MPS/MRP does not suggest changes to frozen orders. Values are: Y: Yes, freeze the order. N: No, do not freeze the order. This is the default value.
Sequence	Use the resequence code to rearrange work items within a cost code. If you are using a GANTT chart for planning, the chart is sequenced by: 1. Cost code 2. Resequence code 3. Work order number

Scheduling Items on a Production Line

This section provides an overview of the scheduling of items on a production line and discusses how to:

• Set processing options for the Line Scheduling Workbench program (P3153).

• Schedule items on a production line.

Understanding the Scheduling of Items on a Production Line

Use the Line Scheduling Workbench (P3153) to schedule rates and work orders for the family of items that is produced on a production line. This program displays information in daily areas about both firmed and planned rates and work orders. After you manually revise the scheduled quantities, you can firm the schedule. Use start and through dates to display the workdays for the production line within the date range. When you create a rate or work order, or the system creates a rate through planning, the system spreads the quantities evenly throughout the workdays, within the date range specified in the line and item relationship for the item. From the workbench, you can access these forms:

• Alternate Line Selection (W3155WC).

• Split Lines Window (W3154WA).

• Parts Availability Multi Level Indented (W30200C).

• Work with Detail Messages (W3411D).

You use the Split Lines form to move scheduled quantities from one line or shift to another. You can use any of these methods:

• Splitting production between two lines, which might create a schedule on the new line.

• Consolidating production from two lines to one line.

• Transferring production from one line to another.

• Splitting production among shifts on the same or different lines.

Use Alternate Line Selection to review all lines for which line and item relationships exist with the item.

Note. The system highlights over-capacity values.

Form Used to Schedule Items on a Production Line

Setting Processing Options for the Line Scheduling Workbench Program (P3153)

Processing options enable you to specify the default processing for programs and reports.

Defaults

Display

Versions

Enter the version to be used for each program. If you leave the processing option blank, the system uses ZJDE0001.

Scheduling Items on a Production Line

Access the Line Scheduling Workbench form, and locate a line or cell for a branch/plant.

To schedule items on a production line:

1. On Line Scheduling Workbench, after locating a line or cell for a branch/plant, change any scheduled quantity as needed.

   If you change the total quantity and update the schedule, the system displays a warning before it spreads the new quantity evenly across the date range. You must update the schedule before the system changes the record.

2. To specify an alternate line, select a record, and then select Alternate Line from the Row menu.

3. On Alternate Line Selection, select the alternate line, select Select/Split from the Row menu, and click OK.

4. On Split Lines Window, complete the Quantity field to move scheduled quantities from one line to another.

   If you access the Split Lines Window directly from the Line Scheduling Workbench form, you also need to complete the Line field.

5. To specify shift and date information, enter a start date, request date, and shift code.

6. To complete the split, click OK.

   Line	Enter a number that defines a production line or cell. Detailed work center operations can be defined inside the line or cell.
   Start Date	Enter a date that identifies the start date of either the work order or the routing instructions.
   S h (shift)	Enter a value from UDC 00/SH (Shift Code) that identifies daily work shifts. In JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Payroll systems, you can use a shift code to add a percentage or amount to the hourly rate on a timecard. For JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Payroll and Time Entry: If an employee always works a shift for which a shift rate differential is applicable, enter that shift code on the employee's master record. When you enter the shift on the employee's master record, you do not need to enter the code on the timecard when you enter time. If an employee occasionally works a different shift, you enter the shift code on each applicable timecard to override the default value.

Sequencing Rates by Classification Scheme

This section provides an overview of the sequencing of rates by classification scheme and discusses how to:

• Set processing options for the Line Sequencing Workbench program (P3156).

• Sequence rates by classification scheme.

Understanding the Sequencing of Rates by Classification Scheme

Use the Line Sequencing Workbench program (P3156) to sequence the rates after you schedule production. This workbench displays information about actual rates only, and it displays the information in daily amounts. You must update the schedule before the system changes the record. You can use these criteria to sequence the rates:

• Category code

• Sequence number

The category code values are determined by the processing options for the Enter/Change Rate Schedule program (P3109). Beginning with the first shift and day, the program forward-schedules the quantities, thus consuming the available capacity. You use the processing options to control whether these quantities are pulled forward or pushed back in time across shifts only, or both shifts and days. This process places the scheduled quantities that exceed the capacity available, within the date range selected, in the last shift of the last day.

If you sequence by sequence number, beginning with the first shift and day, the program forward-schedules the quantities, thus consuming the available capacity. When created, a new rate has an initial sequence number of 999999, which causes the rate to be sequenced last for the shift, placing it after any previously-sequenced rates. To manually override the default sequence, change the sequence number value of either the new rate, an existing rate, or both. Keep in mind that the status of the new rate cannot be greater than the rate status value on the Manufacturing Constants Revision form (W3009B). After revising the sequence, you can update the schedule as it is, or forward-schedule it again.

Form Used to Sequence Rates by Classification Scheme

Setting Processing Options for Line Sequencing Workbench

Processing options enable you to specify the default processing for programs and reports.

Process

Defaults

Sequencing Rates by Classification Scheme

Access the Sequencing Workbench form and locate a line or cell for a branch/plant.