Order grouping

An Job Shop 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, closing orders, processing outbound advice and recording operation and order statuses making order processing more efficient.

Order groups can be created in Job Shop Control, or during the planning process in Enterprise Planning, and used to track and process order groups to and within Warehousing.

They should be considered a flexible, dynamic capability that facilitates more efficient processing of JSC orders for the users. This includes confirming, transferring, printing, releasing, processing outbound advice and recording operation and order status.

You can create order groups in Job Shop Control or earlier in the process in Enterprise Planning.

Advantages of JSC order groups

If you group your production orders together in an Job Shop 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 Job Shop Control order groups this can also help you to improve your manufacturing efficiency in the job shop.

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

JSC order groups can come from one of two sources:

How to create an JSC 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 job shop warehouse, or orders with the same Planned Delivery Date.
  • You can group orders according to the end item or component items.

You must select criteria according to the way you intend to use the order group. 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 Orders to Production 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 Orders to Production 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 this session to remove any orders at a later stage as well, 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 Production Order Parameters (tisfc0100s000) session.

How to use production order groups

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