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:
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In the Tasks pane of the Setup and Maintenance work area, click the Manage Work Order Statuses task.
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In the Setup and Maintenance work area, use this path:
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Offering: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management
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Functional Area: Manufacturing Master Data
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Task: Manage Manufacturing and Maintenance Work Order Statuses
A work order status can be either predefined or user-defined. Here are the predefined statuses:
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Unreleased
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Released
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On Hold
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Completed
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Closed
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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.
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.
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.