Special Processing

You must specify on the processing options what type of work order you will be working with, either equipment work orders or service work orders. Only one type can be analyzed at a time.

Also, on the processing options you need to specify the date to use when calculating the work order age (Work Order Age Basis), either Order Date or Planned Start Date.

For the Load reports, work orders are analyzed over the past 13 periods, with today's date falling into the 13th period. You can select whether periods are weeks, months or years. There is a processing option to set a default period type. For example, you can analyze work orders over the past 12 weeks plus the current week for the load reports.

There is a check box in the header (and a processing option to set the default setting) to show only work orders with open inventory commitments. This is useful for analyzing the type of work orders, their age, or related costs, for work orders waiting on parts.

Although the various delivered reports have specified criteria, the Data Model for all of the reports have a large variety of available fields to easily modify existing reports to analyze by other criteria. Since this module is available for both equipment and service work orders, the desired criteria might be quite different for each work order type for the same report.