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