Understanding Work Order Scheduling and Rate Schedules

As part of scheduling activities, you can monitor work order progress, manage work order releases, and update the status of any order to ensure the validity of the material requirements planning (MRP) and master production scheduling (MPS) schedules. When you work with schedules, you can display manufacturing work orders by item, planner, customer, parent work order, status, type, priority, or a combination of these. You can display work orders by start date or requested date. You can also access related information, such as associated work orders, sales orders, purchase orders, parts lists, and routing instructions.

Note: If you use the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Capacity Requirements Planning system, it reads the routing instructions for work orders and rate schedules and monitors the load on the involved work centers. This process enables you to manage the loads on the work centers to maximize production and meet scheduled demand.

After you have established the production schedule, you print scheduling information and run the production in a work center.

Repetitive manufacturing involves consistent demand for a family of products that can be built on dedicated production lines. To use the capacity of the production lines efficiently, you schedule and sequence items using the Line Scheduling Workbench (P3153) and the Line Sequencing Workbench (P3156) programs.