Shared work centers
A shared work center is a work center that can be deployed for different logistic companies. Typically, this is required for expensive resources that are used for multiple factories.
Instead of using sales and purchase orders to subcontract work between companies, fictional local work centers are used to pretend that the operations are performed in a different company than the company in which the operations are actually performed. In this way, the work performed at the shared work center in company A on behalf of company B is managed directly by the production order in company B, as if the work is performed at company B.
Example
Your organization produces medical equipment, and you have a large autoclave facility used to sterilize equipment from several different factories, which are in different companies. If you do not use shared work centers, every time you want to sterilize some equipment you must subcontract this operation through purchase orders.
Not only does this create lots of extra administration, but it makes capacity planning for the autoclave difficult. Instead, you can define the autoclave as a primary work center, and assign a percentage of its capacity to each of the other companies that need to use it, creating a secondary work center in each of the other companies.
See To define shared work centers for information about setting up shared work centers.
The use of shared work centers and Job Shop by Site is mutually exclusive. The use of shared work centers must be disabled before you can activate the Job Shop by Siteconcept.