1. Shop Floor Management Implementation Guide
  2. Processing Process Orders through Super Backflush

Processing Process Orders through Super Backflush

You can use the Super Backflush program (P31123) to enter completed and scrapped quantities by operation and employee. If the quantities that you enter exceed the quantity at operation, the system issues an error message. The pay point code that you define for each operation in the routing instructions determines what information is backflushed at each pay point. Pay point code B, for example, means that you issue material and report labor at the operation. You can also select to backflush material or labor only at a given pay point. The last operation in the routing instructions must be set up with pay point code B to ensure that all remaining materials and labor are reported before the process order is completed. The backflush procedure can perform these transactions by operation:

  • Issue parts to the process order

  • Record hours and quantities against the process order

  • Record inventory completions

In the processing options, you can set up the super backflush process to be performed either automatically or interactively. When you set up the process to run interactively, the system displays these programs after you enter the completion information on the Super Backflush form:

  • Inventory Issues (P31113)

  • Hours and Quantities (P311221)

  • Work Order Completions (P31114)

You can accept the information that appears on the forms, or you can revise it. For example, when the Time Entry Revisions form appears after you enter information on the Super Backflush form, you can review the labor recorded for the operation, as well as the quantity completed. The records created through Super Backflush are stored in the Work Order Time Transactions table (F31122) with a Processed Code of S. The system automatically updates the Work Order Routing table (F3112). If you add information on the Time Entry Revisions form, you must run the Hours and Quantities Update program (R31422) to update the Work Order Routing table. These records will have a Processed Code of P in the Work Order Time Transactions table.

When the system has an intermediate for the operation, all form quantities appear in the unit of measure for the intermediate. When the system completes the quantity, it deducts the quantity from the operation and adds it to the next operation.