Manufacturing Mobile Best Practices

To take full advantage of the Manufacturing Mobile SuiteApp, you should follow the suggested best practices.

The following sections highlight best practices for specific features:

• Manufacturing Preferences

• Manufacturing Mobile Preference Settings

• Trigger Builds

• Backflush Work Orders

• Report Data

• Default Work Order Location and Work Center

• Over-pick Work Orders

• SCM Mobile App Customization

Manufacturing Preferences

• If you set the Manufacturing Issue Based on Commitment to Limit to Committed, you should enable the Manufacturing preference Allow Overage on Work Order Transactions.

  This best practice helps you avoid potential build failures. For more information, see Manufacturing Preferences.

• Manufacturing Mobile does not support component commitment functionality.

Manufacturing Mobile Preference Settings

Before Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order, make sure you configure Manufacturing Mobile Preferences at an account level.

Trigger Builds

• You should Trigger Builds based on how often data needs to be pushed to NetSuite.

• By default, the Real Time Build box is checked and enabled for all types of work orders.

  While Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order, you can disable real time build.

  Note:

  To report data through Manufacturing Mobile, it is advisable not to disable the Real Time Build box.

• To disable default real time build for all work orders you create or all work orders you create from sales orders, review Manufacturing Mobile Preferences.

Backflush Work Orders

• While Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order, you can automatically consume all work order components at the standard BOM quantities by checking the Backflush box.

  • You can enable backflush with or without real time build and WIP work orders.

  • If you check this box, you cannot reporting consumption in the mobile scanner. You can only report production.

  For more information, see the following topics:

  • Backflush Logic

  • Consumption with Backflush

• Backflush is at a work order level, not at a component level.

  If there are any serial controlled components, you cannot enable backflush.

• To avoid build failures when you enable backflush, when you report production quantity, ensure that there is sufficient component quantity available in the staging bin.

Report Data

• Make sure you review Manufacturing Mobile Work Messages for common reporting scenarios and correcting scenarios.

• To ensure proper finished goods costing, you should report consumption before you report production for non-WIP work orders.

Default Work Order Location and Work Center

To assign a default work order location and work center, you must define at least one static employee group. For more information, see the following topics:

• Creating a Static Employee Group

• Assigning a Default Work Order Location and Work Center

Over-pick Work Orders

• If you use Manufacturing Mobile with Warehouse Management, you can pick more than the quantity in the WMS app for the following work orders:

  • WIP work orders with routing

  • Both WIP and non-WIP work orders with work centers assigned

• If you want to enable over-picking through a mobile device for the supported work orders, make sure you configure the following:

  • Creating a WIP Bin for Manufacturing Mobile

  • Activating the Allow Over-picking for Work Orders System Rule

Mobile Customizations

Before you can enable no-code solution supported by the SCM Mobile framework, you must set a maximum number of line items for a no-code solution. For more information, see

Mobile Device Requirements and Customizations.

Related Topics

Logging In and Out of Manufacturing Mobile

Manufacturing Mobile Interface

Manufacturing Order Types and Features

Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order

General Notices