Closing Production Orders

If you close production orders, LN:

  • Calculates the actual end item unit cost.
  • Calculates the financial results of the production order and posts them to Financials.
  • Updates the history of the actual material and operation costs, the operation times, and the hours accounting.
  • Corrects surcharges based on actual costs.
  • Sends results to Warehousing if actual costing is used.

After you close a production order, the order status becomes Closed.

When a production order has the order status Closed, you cannot issue materials or account hours for the production order anymore.

However, you can reset the order status of a closed production order to Completed. See: Changing order status.

You can:

  • Calculate the financial results of the production order without actually closing the production order.
  • Print the calculated financial results of the production order without posting them to the general ledger.
  • Simulate the calculation and print the production results.

If you calculate the financial results of a production order without closing the production order, you can also choose whether you want to post the results to the general ledger, or only print the results.

Note

If you choose RPT items only, the production orders for customized items (non STO) and non RPT items are not closed.

Only Completed production orders can be closed. You can close an operation in the Report Operations Completed (tisfc0130m000) session.

When a production order is closed, the production order status changes from Completed to Closed. If you want to post additional materials and hours, you must change the status of production orders from Closed to Completed. You can reset the status in the Reset Production Order Status (ticst0203m000) session.

How to close a production order

You can close a production order in the Close Production Orders (ticst0201m000) session.

Before a production order can be closed, the following conditions must be met:

  • The production order must have the order status Completed
  • Allocated materials are issued
  • Warehousing orders are completed
  • Inspection orders are processed
  • Hours entered are posted
  • Subcontracting orders are processed
  • Purchase invoices for subcontracting are approved
  • Backflushing is performed

You must enter a valid closing date, before you can close a production order. See: Antedating.

Production order groups

If you are using order groups, you can close all the production orders in an order group at once. For production orders in an JSC order group, select the Production Order Group check box and enter the order group.

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