Order grouping

An 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. Once a group is formed, you can use it to carry out actions on all the production orders within the group at the same time, for example, reporting orders as completed, printing order documents, or closing orders.

Advantages of SFC order groups

If you group your production orders together in an Shop Floor Control order group this gives greater efficiency in data-handling in LN- for instance you only need to perform one action to report a whole group of production orders complete. If you organise your production using Shop Floor Control order groups this can also help you to improve your manufacturing efficiency on the shop floor.

Example

You can increase material utilization, or decrease tool changeover times. If all orders using the same tooling are grouped, you have to change tools less often. You can also see the physical location where a task is carried out for all the production orders in a group. Your administration can also be more efficient. All material requirements can be printed on one combined report for the entire order group.

How to group production orders

SFC order groups can come from one of two sources:

  • Transferred from the Enterprise Planning package. For more details, refer to Order grouping in Enterprise Planning.
  • Created in the Shop Floor Control module. More details given in the rest of this Help topic.
How to create an SFC order group

Use the Create Production Order Group (tisfc3250m000) session to define criteria by which the orders are grouped.

  • You can add orders to the group individually.
  • You can group orders according to a wide variety of criteria, such as orders belonging to the same routing group, orders processed in the same shop floor warehouse, or orders with the same Planned Delivery Date.
  • You can group orders according to the end item or component items.

You must select critera according to the way you intend to use the order group. For instance, if you want to simultaneously report the operations of all the production orders in a group as completed, you must select criteria related to the routing of the orders. However, if you want to use order groups for material issue, it might be more sensible to group orders that share the same component items.

If you click Create Group in the Create Production Order Group (tisfc3250m000) session, the Assign Production Orders to SFC Order Group (tisfc3151s000) session starts. In that session you can fine-tune your selection: you can accept or reject individual orders.

After you have made your final selection in the Assign Production Orders to SFC Order Group (tisfc3151s000) session, you can view the contents of the order groups in the Production Order Group - Production Orders (tisfc0501m100) session. You can also use the Production Order Group - Production Orders (tisfc0501m100) session to remove any orders at a later stage, for example, if they fail quality control and you then cannot report them as completed with the rest of the group.

Note

You must define the default number group and series for order group numbers in the Shop Floor Control Parameters (tisfc0100s000) session.

How to use SFC order groups

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