Defining Production Areas
To define and maintain production areas, use the Production Area Maintenance (SF_PRDN_AREA) component.
This section discusses how to:
Define general information about the production area.
Select the primary production area.
Define production area accounts.
Define production area and item detail.
Delete production area and item combinations.
Note: The system defines production areas at the business unit level.
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Page Name |
Definition Name |
Usage |
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SF_PRDN_AREA_SUM |
Define and maintain general information for each production area, indicate default WIP locations, and identify items to be manufactured within a production area. You receive a message if the range of items for the production area exceeds the default of 100. |
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SF_PRDNAREA_SEL_SP |
Select the default location where the production item will typically be manufactured. |
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Production Text |
SF_PRDN_AREA_HD_TX |
Associate text with any production area.
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SF_PRAREA_ACCT |
Define WIP accounts for production areas. |
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SF_PRDN_AREA_ITEM |
Define production details for each item associated with a production area. |
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Area Maintenance - Item Detail - Item Text |
SF_PRDN_AREA_IT_TX |
Attach production area and item text relating to specific items that are manufactured within a production area.
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Production Areas for an Item (inquiry) |
SF_PRDN_ITEM_INQ |
View all production areas in which an item is manufactured.
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Production Text for Area/Item (inquiry) |
SF_PRDN_ID_TX_INQ |
View the text associated with the production area and item.
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Use the Summary - Summary page (SF_PRDN_AREA_SUM) to define and maintain general information for each production area, indicate default WIP locations, and identify items to be manufactured within a production area.
Navigation:
This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Summary - Summary page: Effectivity tab. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.
Field or Control |
Description |
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WIP Location Owned and Non-Owned |
Enter values for the production area. If you are producing items that include non-owned components, for example, you are the subcontractor and the customer is supplying the components, define a non-owned WIP location in addition to the owned WIP location. Additionally, if you receive items that are consigned to you by the suppliers, they must be stocked in a non-owned location until they are consumed in production. Note: All consigned items are set up as non-owned. However, consigned manufactured items must be moved to owned WIP locations during the completions process. If you are exclusively using owned components in the WIP location, you do not need to identify a non-owned WIP location. Owned inventory can only be issued from and received into an owned inventory location. Likewise, non-owned inventory can only be issued from and received into a non-owned inventory location. Note: The transfer of consigned inventory from a non-owned location to an owned location results in the recognition of the payment liability. The owned and non-owned WIP locations for a production area indicate the locations where material should be issued or consumed, if the component's issue method is set to Issue or Replenish and any of these conditions exist:
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Storage Area |
The system displays the number of storage levels in the Area, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 fields that have been defined for each storage area. |
Effectivity Tab
Field or Control |
Description |
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Item |
Select an item. You can associate one or more items with each production area. You can specify any approved item, except floor stock, planning, and expensed items. Note: When adding an end item with an item status of Hold or Discontinue, you receive a warning message. |
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Click the Detail button to access the Item Detail page. |
BOM and Routing |
Enter values for these fields. If you are maintaining production IDs, you can associate BOM and routing code combinations, along with their effectivity dates, with the production area and item combination. This is the default that appears when manually adding a production ID for the area and item combination. Change the BOM or routing code to manufacture the item using an alternate BOM or routing. If you're maintaining production schedules, the BOM and routing codes that you define are the BOMs and routings used to manufacture the item in the production area and cannot be changed on the individual production schedules. If the BOM and routing combinations for the item have been defined using the Production Option Maintenance component:
Note: If you have not used the Production Option Maintenance component to define the combinations for the item, you can select from any valid BOM or routing combination, but you won't be able to assign effective dates. There's a difference between using BOM and routing combinations when maintaining production IDs and using them when maintaining production schedules. The BOM and routing area combination for production IDs is really a default combination, depending on the effective date, but it can be overridden manually. For production schedules, the BOM and routing and area combination is the combination that is actually used on that schedule. It is based on the business unit and item production area for which the schedule was created. You cannot override the BOM and routing area combination if you are using production schedules. Both production IDs and production schedules use BOM and routing area combination effective dates if they are defined. The routing indicates whether this is the primary routing (routing code 1) or alternate routing (routing codes 2 through 99). You can leave this field blank or select a predefined BOM and routing for the item. The routing that you specify should designate the routing used to manufacture the item in this production area. If a primary routing exists for this item, the system automatically provides this routing as a default. Note: Routing codes cannot be entered for expensed or planning items. When defining a routing code for the item, the system verifies the item's planning attributes to determine whether the item is scheduled using the item's routing or a fixed and variable lead time. When a lead time is used, the system issues a warning that the routing code specified will be ignored for planning and scheduling purposes When a routing is used for scheduling and one is not specified with the item, the system issues a warning that the item cannot be scheduled. If you have selected the Valid Production Options only check box in the Production Option Control group box on the Define Business Unit Item - Manufacturing page in PeopleSoft Inventory, you can only define BOM and routing combinations set up in the Production Option Maintenance component. Note: Associate a production area to a production option. |
Eff Date (effective date) |
This field is available if you have the same BOM and routing combination with multiple effective dates (such as seasonal changes for multiple years). |
(detail button)Note: There can be only one valid BOM and routing combination effective for an item per production area for a specific time period. However, you can create multiple combinations providing the effectivity dates do not overlap.
Other Tab
Field or Control |
Description |
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Revision |
Select the revision for the item if the item is revision-controlled and you want to manufacture a specific configuration of the item. This revision becomes the default when adding production IDs or production schedules. The revision defined on the production ID or production schedule determines the BOM used when producing the item. When you leave this field blank and no revision is specified on the production ID or the production schedule, the system uses the due date of the production to determine which BOM to use to produce the item. If the item's effectivity is not revision-controlled, this field is unavailable. |
Maintain PID (maintain production ID) |
Select if:
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Primary |
If this production area is the item's primary production area, this check box is selected and unavailable. Select the primary production area on the Area Maintenance - Summary: Primary Production Area page. |
Rate Qty per Shift (production rate quantity per shift) |
Use this field only for production schedules. It is unavailable if the Maintain PID check box is selected. |
Use the Select Primary Production Area for this Item page (SF_PRDNAREA_SEL_SP) to select the default location where the production item will typically be manufactured.
Navigation:
Click the Item Search button and click the Primary Production Area link.
This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Select Primary Production Area for this Item page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.
The primary production option identifies the primary production area for a specific BOM and routing code combination. This occurs because PeopleSoft Supply Planning enables you to plan for multiple BOM and routing code combinations. This primary production area option enables PeopleSoft Supply Planning to determine the production area that the production ID or production schedule to be manufactured.
This example illustrates how this works:
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Production Area |
BOM Code |
Routing Code |
Primary Production Area? |
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AREA1 |
1 |
1 |
Yes |
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AREA2 |
1 |
1 |
No |
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AREA3 |
2 |
2 |
Yes |
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AREA4 |
2 |
2 |
No |
Using this example, if PeopleSoft Supply Planning generates one supply record (such as a production ID) with a BOM and Routing code equal to 1 and one with a BOM and routing code equal to 2, then the system would use AREA1 for the first supply record and AREA2 for the second supply record.
Note: Because primary production areas are defined at the BOM and routing combination level and these combinations can be effective-dated, the production area is the primary production area only for the dates specified on the combination.
Field or Control |
Description |
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Primary Prdn Area (primary production area) |
If you enter the page and the correct primary production area is selected, then click the Cancel button to return to the Area Maintenance - Summary page. To change the primary production area, select the check box next to the production area that you want to designate as the primary location where this item is manufactured. When you click OK, the system accepts your changes. |
Use the Production Area: Accounts page (SF_PRAREA_ACCT) to define WIP accounts for production areas.
Navigation:
ChartFields that you define on this page are used as the debit or credit accounts when material is received or issued from the production ID or production schedule assigned to the production area. The accounts that you assign here track in-process inventory.
Important! Before you can associate accounts to the production area, you must first define ChartFields using the Define Values page. Select
Field or Control |
Description |
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Location Accounting Required |
To use location accounting, select the Location Accounting option when defining options on the PeopleSoft Inventory Options page. |
Production Type |
Select to define ChartFields. You can define a set of accounts for production, rework, and teardown production. |
Cost Element |
To define production area ChartFields, enter a different ChartField for each element of an item's cost, apply a single ChartField to all cost elements, or enter a combination of the two. For example, if item A has a material cost element of 100 and item B has a material cost element of 101, define ChartFields on this page for both cost elements. If you want to use the same ChartField, regardless of the cost element, leave the field blank. |
Cost Element, Account, Alternate Account, Operating Unit, Fund Code, Department, Program Code, Class Field, Budget Reference, Product, Project, Affiliate, Fund Affiliate, and Statistics Code |
Select the ChartFields appropriate for this production area. When you create accounting entries, the system debits the ChartFields specified here for any material consumption, kit issues, earned labor, applied overhead, or favorable variances, and credits the ChartFields for any end item completions to stock or to another production area, end item scrap, or unfavorable variances. Enter a value if you want the transaction quantity incorporated as part of the accounting information. Note: If you have the Combo Edit (combination edit) option set on the PeopleSoft Inventory Business Unit Options page, the system performs ChartField combination edits that you enter on this page. |
Save |
The system verifies that the ChartField combinations are valid. If the ChartField combinations that you enter are valid, the system accepts the entry. If the ChartField combinations that you enter are not valid, the system displays a message giving you a count of the ChartField combinations that are in error, with a check mark next to them. You can correct the combinations before you proceed. |
Use theProduction Area: Item Detail page (SF_PRDN_AREA_ITEM) to define production details for each item associated with a production area.
Navigation:
This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Production Area: Item Detail page. You can find definitions for the fields and controls later on this page.
Field or Control |
Description |
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Owned and Non-Owned WIP Locations |
You can change the values for these fields. |
Area Maintenance Detail
Field or Control |
Description |
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Item |
Appears for each production ID or production schedule. The item cannot be changed or deleted once a production ID or production schedule has been created for the item. |
Rtg Itm (routing item) |
Displays the routing used to manufacture this item. The end item may have its own routing or reference another item's routing for its manufacturing methods. The referenced routing can be assigned directly to the end item, its item group, or its item family. |
BOM and Routing codes |
You can change the values for these fields. |
Revision |
(Optional) Select a revision to use for this item. |
Rate Qty per Shift (production rate quantity per shift) |
Whether you can enter a whole number or a decimal in this field depends on the item's unit of measure and quantity precision combination defined in PeopleSoft Inventory. |
Source Cd (source code) |
Displays the value for the assembly item. Only items with a source code of Make or Buy can be assigned to a production area. |
Prdn Opt Cntl (production option control) |
Displays the value that indicates whether the item has been defined as using production options with the Item Attributes by Unit - Manufacturing page. |
Maintain Production IDs |
Deselect this check box if there is no existing production for this item and if you want to change from maintaining production IDs to maintaining production schedules. |
Primary Prdn Area (primary production area) |
The check box is selected and unavailable if this is the item's primary production area. Select the primary production area on the Primary Production Area page accessed through the Area Maintenance - Summary page. |
Component Issue Method |
Indicates how the end item's components are issued for production. See Selecting the Component Issue Method for Each Item. Note: The component issue method can be different in each production area for the same item. |
Status |
Select Active or Inactive. If you select Inactive, then new production IDs or production schedules cannot be defined for the production area or item. However, you can maintain any production that you've previously defined, and track any existing production in process until it's completed and closed. |
Completion Warnings |
Select a value to indicate the situations in which warnings should be sent during the completions process:
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You can delete an existing production area and item combination only if there are no production IDs or production schedules for that production area or item.
You can archive and purge production IDs and production schedules by using the Production Data Archiving process.