This chapter contains these topics:
Section 17.2, "Where in the Process Do You Schedule Work Orders"
Section 17.5, "Printing Scheduling Information for a Work Center"
As part of your scheduling activities, you can monitor work order progress, manage work order releases, and update the status of any order to keep your material planning schedule valid.
When you work with schedules, you can display manufacturing work orders by item, planner, customer, parent work order, status, type, and priority, or a combination of these. You can also display work orders by start date or requested date and you can enable the system to sort them by either start date or requested date. You can set these defaults for the screen in the processing options.
Processing options also determine the default values for various fields and control which versions of associated programs are used when you access them. You can also access related information, such as work orders, sales orders, purchase orders, ingredients lists, and routing instructions.
After a work order is on the shop floor, you must review the order and check capacity at each work center that the order is scheduled to go through. You might need to change a schedule to keep the Material Requirements Planning and Master Production Scheduling schedules valid.
See Also:
Appendix A, "Appendix A - Lead Times"or information on how the system calculates lead time for a work order
Figure 17-1 Where in the Process Work Is Scheduled
From Shop Floor Control (G31), choose Process Daily Order Preparation
From Daily Order Preparation - Process (G3113), choose Shop Floor Workbench
After a work order is on the shop floor, you must review the order and check capacity at each work center that the order is scheduled to go through. When you review a work order, you can change the status, type, priority rating, freeze code designation, or type of flash message.
To review work order information
Complete the following field:
Branch/Plant
Complete the following optional fields:
Document Type
Phase/Matter Code
Category Code 2
Category Code 3
Work Order/ECO Type
Work Order Priority
Branch/Plant
Process/Item
Planner
Customer
Parent Work Order Number
Status From
Status Through
Search Cross Reference
Figure 17-3 Shop Floor Workbench screen, Detail area
Complete the following optional fields:
Freeze Code Designation
Type of Flash Message
Field | Explanation |
---|---|
Status Code - Thru | Enter a status code (00/SS) that you want the system to use as an ending point for selecting work order information.
There are three ways to enter the status code information:
|
Work Order Flash Message | A user defined code (system 00, type WM) 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 screen field. The flash message is highlighted in the Description field of the work order. |
From Shop Floor Control (G31), choose Process Daily Order Preparation
From Daily Order Preparation - Process (G3113), choose Shop Floor Workbench
After you review work order information, you might need to revise some of the information.
To revise work order information
On Shop Floor Workbench
Complete the following optional fields:
Status
Work Order/ECO Type
Work Order Priority
Access the detail area.
Complete the following optional fields:
Freeze Code Designation
Type of Flash Message
You can use the selection exit to access the work order and make any additional changes.
From Shop Floor Control (G31), choose Process Periodic Functions
From Periodic Functions (G3122), choose Dispatch List
Use Dispatch List to plan and execute the production in a work center. The Dispatch List report includes the work center scheduling information that appears on the Dispatch List Inquiry form.
Figure 17-4 Schedule by Work Center report