Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 14 · Work Execution
Creating and releasing work orders
Lesson 136 of 188 · 13 min
Open Work Execution and check the organization context. Manage work orders, create a standard work order — item, quantity, start date — and show the work definition pulling in operations, materials and resources. Review the scheduled dates and show the calendar and capacity driving them. Save, select the work order and release it, then show what release changes: reservations, dispatch list visibility, transactability. Create a non-standard work order for comparison. Release is the gate. An unreleased work order is a plan; a released one is a commitment that reserves material and appears on the shop floor. The scheduled dates are the payoff of the calendar and capacity modules. If they look wrong, that is where to go — not into the scheduler. Do not release everything at once. Releasing early reserves material that could be used elsewhere — and that reservation is invisible to the person who then cannot find…
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In this module: Module 14 · Work Execution
- 1Work order types and the execution model
- 2Creating and releasing work orders
- 3Material availability and reservations
- 4The dispatch list
- 5Operation transactions
- 6Material transactions: issue and backflush
- 7Resource transactions
- 8Completion, scrap and rework
- 9Work order close and exceptions
- 10What breaksFree preview
- 11Lab: run the plant