How You Manage Work Order Statuses

If you're a production controller or supervisor, you can define and update work order statuses to support enterprise-specific business processes. To do so, use the Manage Work Order Statuses page. Here are two ways to find the page:

In the Tasks pane of the Setup and Maintenance work area, click the Manage Work Order Statuses task.
In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use this path:

Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
Functional Area: Manufacturing Master Data
Task: Manage Manufacturing and Maintenance Work Order Statuses

A work order status can be either predefined or user-defined. Here are the predefined statuses:

Unreleased
Released
On Hold
Completed
Closed
Canceled

Define a New Work Order Status

To define a new status, click the Add icon. You must provide a unique name and code for the status, and associate it to a system status. For example, you can define the new status Materials_Unrel, and associate it to the system status Unreleased. This helps you sort, manage, and report work orders more effectively.

Note: You must name the new status in a way that the user understands which system status it's associated to. You can add a prefix or a suffix of the system status. For example, you can use the name UNREL_MATERIAL_UNRELEASED to indicate that the new status is associated to the system status Unreleased.

Edit a User-Defined Work Order Status

You can only update the Name and Description attributes for both system statuses and user-defined statuses. For a user-defined status, you can't update the Code and System Status attributes.

Note: It's recommended to not update the name of the system status. However, if you want to, you must do it in a way that the user can understand and associate it to the original name of the system status.