Feature overview
Business Value
Planners and production managers often move between planning worksheets, production orders, work and machine centers, production BOMs, and routings to complete routine work. Small gaps in page actions, fields, filtering, and error navigation add unnecessary steps and can delay production scheduling.
Details
These improvements place manufacturing information and actions closer to the records where you work. You can create released production orders directly from planning suggestions, monitor and calculate capacity calendars, correct uncertified production definitions from actionable errors, and find relevant manufacturing details with less navigation.
Create released production orders from planning suggestions
On the Planning Worksheet, run Carry Out Action Message and choose one of the new production order options:
- Released creates released production orders directly from the accepted planning lines.
- Released & Print creates released production orders and includes them in production order printing.
Calculate and monitor capacity calendars
You can run Calculate Work Center Calendar from the Work Center Card and Calculate Machine Center Calendar from the Machine Center Card. The reports open for the current center, so you don't need to return to the list page.
The Calendar Entries Available Until field on Work Center and Machine Center cards and lists shows the latest date for which calendar entries exist. A date earlier than the work date appears in the warning style so that you can identify calendars that need recalculation before scheduling fails.
Resolve uncertified BOM and routing errors
When a production order references a production BOM or routing that isn't certified, the validation error provides a navigation action:
- Show Production BOM [number] opens the affected Production BOM.
- Show Routing [number] opens the affected Routing.
Certify the document and retry the operation.
Find and maintain manufacturing information more easily
The following page improvements reduce extra navigation and prevent avoidable errors:
- Copy Production Order Document excludes the current production order from the Document No. lookup when the source and destination statuses match.
- Routing Link Code is available on Planning Routing, Prod. Order Components, and Prod. Order Comp. Line List.