Setting Up Conventional Work Orders

NetSuite lets you use Conventional Work Orders with the Advanced Manufacturing tablet interface. Conventional Work Orders do not use Work in Process or NetSuite Routings.

To set up conventional work orders, an administrator must enable pre-requisite features. Then, you must set up your tablet, a work center, and then associate a work order with a work center.

Important:

Before you create a conventional work order, create NetSuite Work Center and an Advanced Manufacturing Work Center.

For more information, see Creating Manufacturing Work Centers or Groups.

To set up conventional work orders:

To enable prerequisite features, an administrator must go to Setup > Company > Enable Features and complete the following steps.
1. On the Company subtab, check the Locations box.
2. Click the Items & Inventory subtab, and then check the Manufacturing Routing and Work Center box.
  
  Conventional work orders do not use routings, but are associated to work centers through new fields on the record.
3. (Optional) Check the Bin Management box.
4. Click Save.
To set up conventional work orders to work with your tablet configuration, complete the following steps.
1. Go to Advanced Manufacturing > Administration/Setup > Tablet Data Collection Configuration. For more information, see Mobile Devices
2. Beside your tablet set up, click Edit.
  
  The AM Tablet Settings form displays your tablet configuration.
3. To enable the tablet to use conventional (non-routing) work orders, check the Show Conventional Work Orders box.
4. In the Conventional Work Orders Date Field, enter the field you want to display in the tablet work queue. For example, startdate or finishdate.
5. Click Save.
To set up work orders to use with conventional work orders, go to Lists > Relationships > Groups and then complete the following steps.
1. Select the work center group you want to use conventional work orders with. For more information, see Creating Manufacturing Work Centers or Groups
2. In the Advanced Manufacturing subtab, select the Location where you want to use Conventional Work Orders. This restricts conventional work order use to the selected location.
3. (Optional) Select an Issue Bin to identify the bin providing components.
4. (Optional) Select the Assembly Bin to identify the bin receiving the finished goods.
5. Click Save.
To associate a work order to a work center, go to Transactions > Manufacturing > Enter Work Orders and complete the following steps.
1. Complete the Work Order form. For more information, see Entering an Individual Work Order
2. Select the AM Work Center to associate with this work order.
3. Click Save.

To set up conventional work orders:

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