Types of Manufacturing

Discrete, process, and repetitive manufacturing all use bills of material and routing instructions. The bills of material contain individual parts or components, such as nuts, bolts, wire, plastic, or metal parts of a fixed or variable quantity. Products can be broken down into subassemblies that go into various larger assemblies. The routing instructions include the operations to be performed, their sequence, the various work centers involved, and the standards for setting up and running the operations.

All types of manufacturing use the term item for both the raw materials and finished goods. Not all items are planned, scheduled, or produced in their primary unit of measure. To accommodate this fact, full unit of measure capabilities are enabled throughout the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system. Most entry programs have a Unit of Measure (UOM) field next to the quantity fields. The unit of measure is stored in the database tables with the quantities.

Throughout JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management, the system uses the values in three fields in the Item Master table (F4101) as default values in entry forms:

• Component Unit of Measure

• Production Unit of Measure

• Primary Unit of Measure

The value in the Primary Unit of Measure field must be the smallest of the three units of measure.