Understanding the Manual Issue of Material for Production-Controlled Items
You use the Work Order Inventory Issues program (P31113) to manually issue material that is associated with a work order.
The Production Number field and Query by Example (QBE) line appear in the detail grid of the Work With Work Order Inventory Issue form. The Production Number field also appears in the header of the Inventory Issue Revisions form.
Before issuing inventory, you can review on-hand availability of production-controlled items by item number, production number, branch/plant, location, and lot serial number. To access the Production Number On Hand form, select the Prod No. Location option from the Row menu of the Inventory Issue Revisions form. The Production Number On Hand form displays relevant information from the F41021T table.
During work order inventory issues, the production number is an attribute of the inventory and not an attribute of the order. The production number is an attribute of the work order when submitting direct inventory transactions.
When you issue inventory for production-controlled items, the system restricts you from issuing production-controlled inventory in excess of what is currently on hand for a location in the F41021T table.
You use production number related inventory when issuing production-controlled inventory to the work order. When the required quantity of the specific production-controlled or generic inventory is not available, the system enables you to consume the remaining required quantity from another production number. You consume the remaining required inventory for production-controlled items using either blind or interactive mode.
You set the Production Number On Hand Consumption processing option for the Work Order Inventory Issues program to blank to activate blind inventory issues.
When the Work Order Inventory Issues program is run to issue inventory blindly for production-controlled items, the algorithm:
Allocates generic inventory.
Generic inventory is inventory for items that are not production-controlled and, therefore, are not associated with a production number.
Allocates inactive production numbers.
These are production-controlled items that have the Production Number Status set to I in the Production Number Master File table (F34401).
Allocates orphaned production numbers.
These are production-controlled items that are no longer associated with a supply or demand.
Allocates production number by end item demand date.
This is the demand date of a production-controlled item that is the farthest in the future. The system then replans the end item to meet the demand.
If you set the Production Number On Hand Consumption processing option to a value of 1 to interactively issue inventory, then the system displays the Select Inventory for Consumption form. You select the specific inventory and quantity to consume.
You must complete the Secondary Quantity field if the item you are issuing is set up with dual units of measure in the item master record.
After you select the inventory to consume, you can access the Select Inventory to Consume form to review or redistribute inventory. You must have a value in the Issues field to access the Prod No. Consumption option in the Row menu.
During inventory issues, the system passes production number information only to component items that are set up as production number controlled in the Item Master (P4101) or Item Branch (P41026) programs. If you issue a non-production-controlled component item to the work order, the system does not label the item with the production number.
The system uses the production number from the work order to maintain the on-hand quantity in the F41021T table. The system also updates the Item Ledger File table (F4111) with corresponding production numbers for transactions.
If the system is set up to perform work order blind issues using backflush or the Super Backflush program (P31123). The system then follows the blind consumption logic by default.
Use the Select Multiple Locations form to select inventory by lot, location, and item branch/plant. You use the Select Multiple Locations form to split the required quantity for material issue between two or more locations based on availability.
In the case of unplanned issues, you cannot specify the production number during work order issues. The system uses the production number of the work order if the unplanned line is a production-controlled item. If the unplanned line is for a nonproduction-controlled item, then the system issues generic inventory.
For direct inventory transactions using the Inventory Issues (P4112), Inventory Adjustments (P4114), and Inventory Transfers (P4113) programs, a reversal of production-controlled inventory transactions increases or decreases the on-hand quantity of the production number used in the transactions. For inventory issues using the Work Order Inventory Issues program (P31113), a reversal of work order issues for a production-controlled item increases the on-hand quantity of the production number inventory in the F41021T table for the production number on the work order (Release 9.2 Update).
The on-hand quantity for production-controlled inventory in the F41021T table goes to zero but does not go negative. All on-hand quantity for production-controlled items must be consumed before the on-hand quantity of generic items goes negative.
If the Negative Quantity on Hand processing option on the Edits tab of the Work Order Inventory Issues program is set to blank to allow negative on-hand quantity for an item, then discrepancies may occur in the F41021T table because quantities do not go negative for production-controlled items.
You can manage production number inventory through the Production Number Workbench program before issuing inventory.