Creating Manufacturing Work Centers or Groups
A work center is a group of people that perform a specific step in the manufacturing process. After you define a work center group, that work center can be assigned to cover specific steps in the manufacturing process. For example, your assembly process might require the following groups: manufacturing, quality assurance, and packing machine.
You create work centers by creating a static group, and then identifying it as a manufacturing work center.
To create a manufacturing work center:
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Go to Go to Lists > Relationships > Groups > New.
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Select Static as the kind of group.
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Select Employee as the kind of members.
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Click Continue.
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On Create Static Employee Group page, enter a name for this group.
For example, enter Packing Machine Group. This name shows in work center lists on records and forms.
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Select the owner of this group.
Note:You are selected by default. Only the owner of a group can add or remove members or delete the group.
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Check the Manufacturing Work Center box. This enables this group to be used as a work center with routing records.
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Click the Manufacturing Work Center Settings subtab.
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Select one or more locations to associate with this work center.
If you use NetSuite OneWorld, you can select multiple locations within a subsidiary.
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Enter the number of machine resources for this work center.
If this machine is used in multiple work centers, enter a decimal amount. For example, if this machine is used by another work center for half the day, enter 0.5.
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Enter number of labor resources for this work center.
If labor is used by multiple work centers, enter a decimal amount. For example, if a welder spends only two hours in this work center in a day, enter 0.25.
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Complete any additional fields necessary for this group record.
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Click Save.
NetSuite uses the associated work calendar to schedule the operation tasks associated with each work center.
For more information about creating a static group record, read Creating a Static Group.