Labels in Manufacturing

If you design the job shop layout in a pull production-environment, you can decide to use Kanban labels to trigger the supply of intermediate products between work centers.

Use the Print Kanban Labels (tirou2402m000) session to create the Kanban labels that trigger supply in the job shop. For example, creating Kanban labels for every operation in a specific routing. After you finished working on products on a specific operation, the Kanban label serves as a means to ask for intermediate products of the previous operation so working can be continued.

Enter the label layout in the Label Layout field of the Print Kanban Labels (tirou2402m000) session. You must define the label layout in the Label Layouts (whwmd5520m000) session. The label layout contains the information type that is on the Kanban label. You must enter the information type by means of descriptions and specific codes. For more information, refer to Label layout and printing. The table below contains an example of descriptions and codes you can choose to use on Kanban labels.

To get the Kanban information printed on the label, Kanban information must be entered in the Routing Operations (tirou1102m000) session.

Production order labels in Manufacturing identify completed production order quantities. The labels are an aid to move the production order to the warehouse, and contain information such as the number of the production order, the kind of item in the production order, the warehouse to which the items must be transferred, and so on.

The label layout is defined in the Label Layouts (whwmd5520m000) session. The label layout contains the information type that is on the production order label. In Label layout and printing the codes are displayed that you can choose to use on production order labels.