Understanding Production IDs and Production Schedules

PeopleSoft Manufacturing's flexible model enables you to define, maintain, and track production by discrete batches or by production schedules. Production IDs can be used when it's necessary to track information using discrete orders or batches. Production schedules can be used when you want to manage production by day or shift. Alternatively, you can simply backflush an item within a production area even though a schedule has not been previously established, and the system automatically creates the supporting production schedule for you.

You can also use production IDs to create rework orders to track material, machine, and labor costs associated with the rework production. Teardown orders use production IDs to track costs associated with tearing down an end item into its component parts.

When you defined the production areas for the manufacturing items, you indicated whether you wanted to track production at a detailed level using production IDs, or at a summary level using production schedules. Production IDs also enable you to report intermediate completions at various operations in an item's manufacturing process. In addition, production IDs enable you set up any operation on the item's routing as a subcontracted operation.

If you use production schedules, you can create multiple schedule quantities per shift. You enter quantities for each day of the week, and the system determines the start date when the production schedule is added. This enables you to sequence production throughout the day.

If you are using PeopleSoft Supply Planning, you'll generate production ID and production schedule recommendations for regular production when you create the plan and schedule production. PeopleSoft Supply Planning sends recommendations to PeopleSoft Manufacturing in the form of messages.

You can accept and process recommendations (planning messages) to add new production or to apply changes to existing production. The planning messages that recommend changes to existing production include:

Term	Definition
Schedule changes	PeopleSoft Supply Planning recommends a scheduling change when start and end times are changed, when production calendars change, or when work centers or resources are no longer available for the originally scheduled production times.
Cancellation recommendations	PeopleSoft Supply Planning recommends cancellation when it finds that the specified production is no longer needed because the demand for an order or scheduled quantity no longer exists.

Important:

PeopleSoft Supply Planning does not recommend creating rework or teardown production. Create rework and teardown production IDs manually using PeopleSoft Manufacturing.

Before you create production IDs and production schedules, you need to determine the type of production. The following sections review production types and provide an overview of the production creation process—from generating planned production to scheduling production IDs and production schedules.