Setting Up Work Center Capacity Information

Access the Work Center Master Revisions form.

Work Center

Enter a number that identifies a branch, plant, work center, or business unit.

Dispatch Group

Enter a category code to group work centers within an overall business unit.

For example, you can use this code to group similar machines that operate out of several work centers and report to one business unit.

Location Branch

Specify the branch plant of the location that is associated with the work center.

Prime Load

Enter a code that determines if a work center is machine- or labor-intensive. The system also uses prime load codes in Resource Requirements Planning and Capacity Requirements Planning calculations to develop load profiles.

Codes are:

L: Run labor hours only.

M: Machine hours only.

B: Run labor plus setup labor hours.

C: Machine plus setup hours.

O: Other (will not generate resource units).

Critical W/C (critical work center)

Enter a code that indicates whether the work center is critical or not critical when the system calculates capacity. Values are:

N: Not a critical work center.

1: A critical work center in calculating RRP only.

2: A critical work center in calculating RCCP and CRP.

3: A critical work center in calculating RRP, RCCP, and CRP.

The system also displays Type 3 work centers when you select Type 1 or Type 2 in this field.

4: Not a capacity work center. The system does not include this work center in capacity planning.

Note: The data selection is a system feature that processes certain groups of information with the RRP, RCCP, and CRP programs.

Resource Offset

Enter a value from the Resource Profile table (F3303) to determine the number of days that the actual use of a work center resource should be offset from the forecasted need date.

Standard Capacity

Enter the standard capacity level at which a production line usually operates. Capacity is stated in units per hour. This level is used for repetitive processing only.

Capacity UOM (capacity unit of measure)

Enter a unit of measure to express the capacity of a production line. Examples of units of measure include hours, number of stampings, coats of paint, and so on.

This item is used for repetitive processing only.

Minimum Capacity

Enter the lower limit of the capacity, beyond which the production line should not operate. Management sets this limit based on factors such as efficiencies, costs, and so on.

Capacity is stated in units per hour. This limit is used for repetitive processing only.

Maximum Capacity

Enter the upper limit of the capacity, beyond which a production line cannot produce. Capacity is stated in units per hour. This limit is used for repetitive processing only.

Queue Hours

Enter the total hours that an order is expected to be in queue at work centers and moving between work centers.

The system stores this value in the Item Branch table (F4102) table. You can calculate this value using the Leadtime Rollup program (R30822A) or you can enter it manually. When you run the Leadtime Rollup program, the system overrides manual entries and populates the table with calculated values.

Move Hours

Enter the planned hours that are required to move the order from this operation to the next operation in the same work center.

If the Routing Master values are blank, the system retrieves the default value from the work order routing. However, the system uses these values only for backscheduling variable leadtime items.

If you leave the Hours field on the Routing Revisions form blank, the system uses the value in this field for leadtime and scheduling calculations.

Replen. Hrs. (replenishment hours)

Enter the time that is required before a consuming location has a replacement kanban available from its supplying location.

This value is used only for kanban card processing in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management.

Efficiency

Enter a user-defined value that indicates how efficiently a work center operates.

This value usually refers to staff efficiency. When you enter a value in this field and the Modify Cost by Work Center Efficiency field in the Job Shop Manufacturing Constants table (F3009) is set to Y, the system creates a new cost component (B4) from the cost calculated from the direct labor cost (B1).

For example, if the constant is set to Y, the value of this field is 80 percent, and the direct labor cost is 10, the system creates a B4 cost component for two in the Item Cost Component Add-Ons table (F30026).

The Work Center Resource Units Generation program (R3007G) also uses this value as a default when calculating rated capacity.

Enter percents as whole numbers. For example, enter 80 percent as 80.00.

Note: The system expects that the routing times for each operator are the actual times it takes to complete an operation. Efficiency does not affect total cost. Efficiency does reassign some of the costs into different cost components. Efficiency does not change the duration or backscheduling of a work order.

Utilization

Enter a percentage that indicates how intensively a work center is being used. This value usually refers to machine use. It is the ratio of the direct time charged for production activities to the planned hours.

The Work Center Resource Units Generation program also uses this value as a default when calculating rated capacity.

Enter percents as whole numbers. For example, enter 80 percent as 80.00.