31 Orderless Processing
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Orderless Processing allow you to complete a product and manage the related cost without entering a work order or rate schedule.
31.1 Processing Orderless Completion
The Orderless Completion program records a completion, issues parts, and records hours and quantities for Orderless Processing. This program calculates and prepares related costs for Manufacturing Orderless Accounting.
Performing an Orderless Completion increments inventory of the finished item while decrementing inventory of the required components and capturing all related costs, without entering a work order or rate schedule.
Using the items product data starting with the standard manufacturing bill of material and routing, when a completion for an item is recorded, the system stores transaction details in the Orderless Completion File (F3116) and calculates and stores material and shop floor activity costs in the Production Cost file (F3102).
After you enter a completion, you can not make any changes to the entry. However, until journal entries are written, you can perform a complete reversal of the completion. Press F6 (Reverse) after inquiring on the document number in question (or an option exit may be taken from the Orderless Completion Inquiry to the Orderless Completion screen). Reversing a completion writes corresponding Item Ledger (Cardex) entries, updates inventory quantities and completely removes the transaction records from the completion and cost files (F3116 and F3102).
Orderless Completions allows you to Backflush common production items without the need for administration of a Work Order, thus streamlining the through-put of these common items in the total production process.
Note:
Orderless Completions performs a blind Backflush of material (if item has BOM) and labor (if item has Routing). If you need to make changes to parts list or routings, a Work Order must be generated.
31.2 Orderless Completion Inquiry
From Orderless Processing (G3118), choose Orderless Completion Inquiry
Use Orderless Completion Inquiry to find and review orderless completions. You can view Orderless Completion within a specified Branch/Plant, by any combination of Item Number, Work Center or Line, and Transaction Date ranges. You may also inquire by Document Number.
You can find option exits to Orderless Completion, Production Cost Inquiry, G/L Review, Item Ledger, and Lot Master screens, from any completions displayed.
The Orderless Completion Inquiry screen allows inquiry on all the Orderless Completed Transactions entered in the system.
To inquire on an Orderless Completion
On Orderless Completion Inquiry
Figure 31-2 Orderless Completion Inquiry screen
Description of "Figure 31-2 Orderless Completion Inquiry screen"
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Complete one or a combination of any two, of the following fields:
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Item Number
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Work Center or Line
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Transaction Date ranges
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Document Number
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Complete the following field and press Enter:
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Branch/Plant
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Review the information.
See Section 36.14, "MFG Accounting for Orderless Completion (P31862)."
31.3 Orderless Manufacturing Accounting
The Orderless Manufacturing Accounting (P31862) batch program generates the journal entries for the Orderless Completion.
When an Orderless Completion for an item is performed, the system stores transaction details in the Orderless Completion File (F3116) and calculates and stores material and shop floor activity costs in the Production Cost File (F3102).
The Orderless Manufacturing Accounting (P31862) batch program uses the data from these files to generate journal entries for material issues, shop floor activities, completions, scrap, and variance.
Running this program always produces an exception report (R31862) and optionally produces an accounting journal (R31863).
The following Automatic Accounting Instruction (AAI) tables are used by the Orderless Manufacturing Accounting (P31862) to establish the correct G/L accounts:
3110 Raw Material/Sub-Assemblies
3120 Work in Process
3130 Sub-Assemblies/Finished Good
3401 Accruals
3220 Labor Variance
3240 Material Variance
Figure 31-3 Orderless MFG Accounting screen
Description of "Figure 31-3 Orderless MFG Accounting screen"