Labor and Material Transactions Overview

You can use Shop Floor to perform labor and material transactions. All labor and material transaction forms are designed for use with a touch screen or mouse, and you can also use scanners to input data. There are two primary navigation forms from which employees can access labor transaction forms: the Work Center Navigation Home form, which also includes material transactions, and the Work Center form, which only involves labor transactions. The Work Center Navigation Home form provides links for employees to all labor and material transaction forms using a touch-optimized interface. The Work Center form provides a list of available and active jobs and allows employees at a work center to perform labor transactions involving a selected job either by opening the relevant transaction form, with the job information pre-filled, or by executing the transaction directly from the Work Center form.

You can perform these labor transactions:

• Start Setup : start setup activities for a job operation
• End Setup : stop setup activities for a job operation
• Start Run : start a job operation
• End Run : stop a job operation and report any completed or moved quantities
• End Run Only : report completed or moved quantities for a job that has not started
• Start Indirect : start an indirect task
• End Indirect : stop an indirect task
• Start Just-In-Time: start Just-In-Time production
• End Just-In-Time : stop Just-In-Time production
• Start Machine : start a job operation for a machine
• End Machine : stop a job operation for a machine and report any completed or moved quantities
• Start Production Schedule: start a production schedule
• End Production Schedule: end a production schedule
• Start Project Labor : start reporting labor hours for a project
• End Project Labor: stop reporting labor hours for a project
• Start Service Labor : start reporting labor hours for a service order
• End Service Labor: stop reporting labor hours for a service order
• Start Team Run : start a job operation for a team
• End Team Run : stop a job operation for a team and report any completed or moved quantities
• Team Member Reporting : stop a job operation for a team and report any completed or moved quantities; quantities reported are evenly distributed among all team members
• Workset Maintenance : start and stop worksets, and add and remove job operations, tasks, activities to worksets

You can perform these material transactions:

• Job Material Issue : issue material to jobs
• Job Material Return : return materials from a job operation back into inventory
• Job Move : move completed items from one operation to the next
• Job Receipt : receive completed items from jobs into inventory
• Work Center Material Issue : issue material to work centers
• Just-In-Time Production : receive completed items into inventory that are not associated with a job or production schedule
• Production Schedule Receipt : receive completed items from production schedules into inventory
• SRO Material : issue material to and recall material from service orders
• Visual Serial Assignment: assign serialized component material to a serialized end item

Two new validations are added on the Shop Floor Control Parameters form which allows the user to check if the Job Operation is eligible to complete or the Job Order is eligible to close.

BOM item issue status validation: This new validation can be added for both Completed Qty and Scrapped Qty fields to check if the sufficient BOM item(s) has been issued to meet the cumulative quantity completed (current complete quantity + quantity that has been already reported) and scrapped quantity (current scraped quantity + scrapped quantity at operation). If the quantity issued is not sufficient to report current quantities, the application displays an error message.

Reported quantity validation: This new validation can be added for Good Qty if the cumulative quantity completed and scrapped is less than the released quantity, an error message is displayed