Shop Floor Control

You can monitor the progress of the production progress, for example, the production orders, quantities, and operations that are complete, and the quantities that are processed in specific operations.

In manufacturing processes it is often necessary to plan the production of more product than you actually need, because some of the product may be outside specification. Some of th components can also break or be unsuitable for production. this effect is modeled by means of scrap and yield.

Production order planning provides the facility to modify and preplan the production order. The planning is a process of determining the start and end dates of the individual operation and production order. When the production order is planned, the lead-time of the operations and the production order is calculated. The load on the corresponding machines and work centers is also calculated and displayed.

Subcontracting is a common practice in manufacturing industries.

Production orders executed for the manufacturer are indicated as "subcontracting" production orders. You can receive materials owned by the manufacturer for these orders. Those items are stored against a certain value using the current valuation logic. You can issue items to a subcontracting production order. The actual costs of those items are zero when they are consumed in a production order. The WIP of a subcontracting production order is partially owned by the manufacturer, this is visible to the user.

The entering of issues as part of the order procedure for production orders is required to issue the necessary materials from the warehouse to the shop floor. Issuing can be done manually or by the system while the estimate is being built up. When backflushing applies, issuing of inventory is automatically performed.

The automatic issue of materials from inventory, or accounting for the hours spent manufacturing an item, based on theoretical usage and the quantity of the item reported as complete.

A stock of inexpensive material present on the shop floor that can be used in production without recording each issue of material individually. Floor stock is not backflushed and is not part of the estimated costs. To account for floor stock materials, a surcharge is added to the cost price of an end item. A Kanban triggers the supply of floor-stock items to the shop floor. You can create a warehousing order of type SFC Production in which you determine from which warehouse and to what work center the material must be shipped.

SFC warehouses are a special kind of warehouse that store and control the materials needed for production. An SFC warehouse is linked to a work center by which materials needed for operations can be pulled from inventory in the SFC warehouse linked to that operation for example, a location in the line.

Production order costing deals with the production order costs for all items of all production types whose production orders are handled in the Shop Floor Control module. The costing functionality for order costing of standard items and customized items is the same.

You can use input/output control to judge how efficiently your machines or work centers are operating. You can compare actual input with planned input to find out when there is not enough work at a work center or machine, which leads to poor productivity. You can compare actual output with planned output to discover problems at a work center or machine.

A Shop Floor Control order group is a group of production orders, defined by the user. You can add production orders individually, or specify criteria to ensure the orders with common features are grouped. After a group is formed, you can use it to perform actions on all production orders within the group at the same time, for example, report orders as complete, printing order documents, or close orders.

To optimize the use of the various machines available for the production process in a factory and minimize changeover due to other product characteristics, functionality is available to sort production orders based on set-up classes (such as color).

A production order split allows you to split in-process production orders into multiple production orders. You can select the split-off quantity that goes to the new child order or split off rejected items.

Costing breaks are defined to override a project peg distribution of actual supply orders and move the related costs to different WBS nodes on the same project.

In the bill of material (BOM), costing breaks can be applied to routings, operations, work centers, or cost types. Multiple costing breaks can be applied to a specific BOM.