Understanding Discrete Work Order Completion

When you finish producing discrete items on the shop floor, you need to record the completions to inventory. The completion transactions that you enter in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Shop Floor Management system update the item quantity records in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Inventory Management system. For items that are defined in a primary and a secondary unit of measure, you must enter the completed quantity in both units of measure.

You use the Work Order Completion (P31114) program to record completions. If you have already manually issued material for a work order, you perform a completion without backflush. You can either report all items as complete when the entire work order is finished, or report partial completions as they occur throughout the production process. The point at which you select to report completions depends on factors related to the production cycle time. Depending on the nature of the manufactured item, you can report partial completions or report total completions in one transaction.

When you report partial completions, you can also indicate the stage or progress that is being made on an order in production and identify any delays in the production process. The Work With Work Order Completions form displays completed and scrapped quantities and percent complete information for a work order.

When you use the Work Order Completion program to complete more than the quantity ordered, the system highlights the Completed Quantity field and warns you that completing the quantity that you designated will generate an over-completion. You can complete a work order to multiple locations. In this case, you enter the total quantity to be completed and then divide it among multiple locations.

When a previous completion exists for a work order, the system displays information in the lot, grade or potency, and status fields. Also, when you enter a quantity, the system adds inventory to the lot at the grade or potency and the current status.

You can perform full or partial order completions either with or without backflushing the parts. If you use backflushing, you report the issue transactions at completion or at operations that are defined as pay point operations for super backflush. For backflush to occur, the ingredient must be set up with an issue code that enables the item to be backflushed.

When you set a completions threshold in the processing option, the system updates the Update Status field on the Work Order Completion Detail form according to the threshold rules. If you use lot control, you can also specify a default value for the completion lot number, such as the work order number or the associated sales order number. You can override the default value on the form.

If you set the Consider Scrap for Completed Status Code processing option to include the scrapped quantity to set the work order completion status, the Update Status field shows the completion status to be complete when the total of completed quantity and scrapped quantity matches the threshold completion percentage (Release 9.2 Update).