24 Print Ingredient and Operation Reports

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24.1 Overview

Print ingredient and operation reports to effectively manage your work order and rate schedule information. Two types of process manufacturing reports are available:

Report Description
Ingredients reports Process Order Summary

Ingredient Shortages

All Shortages

Supply and Demand

Operations reports Dispatch List

Hours and Quantities Proof


You can use process manufacturing reports to identify all:

  • Work orders in your system

  • Ingredients that are required to complete a work order and their availability

  • Ingredient shortages

  • Supply, demand, and available quantities for an ingredient

The system uses information in the following tables to produce reports:

Report Description
Process Order Summary Work Order Master table (F4801)
All Shortages Shortage Maintenance Master table (F3118)

24.1.1 What You Should Know About

Topic Description
Kanban implementation You can implement a kanban system to simplify inventory control in a discrete manufacturing environment as well as a repetitive manufacturing environment.

See Chapter 30, "Process Kanbans"for instructions on using kanbans.