Overview

Use Production Management to manage, plan and track assembly and production processes to fulfill demand for finished goods.

• This solution is integrated with Inventory Control so that required components are designated for the production process. See the Inventory Control User Guide.
• This solution interacts with Warehouse to process document demand.
• Customer orders and internal requisitions are created in Item and Order Billing and Requisitions.

  See the Financials and Supply Management Data Interface Guide and the Requisitions User Guide.

This list shows the major features and benefits of this solution:

• Define the bill of materials for the finished goods
• Determine how to calculate and track burden costs
• Track inventory component and packaging usage
• Schedule demand to create work orders
• Explode a bill of material to show total components and costs
• Allocate the components required to produce goods
• Substitute components on work orders
• Perform picking feedback to update inventory
• Use offsite locations and components
• Track by-products and expense component waste
• Track components, finished goods, and by-products by bin, lot, sublot, serial number, and multiple unit of measure