Canceling Range of Production Orders

Introduction

Sometimes, you need to dispose of multiple production orders, for example, in the following situations:

• A customer has canceled several sales orders, and the related production orders are not required anymore.
• Many production orders with production order status Created were accidentally released prematurely.

Materials

If you remove production orders, LN can perform one or more of the following additional actions, depending on user settings and conditions described later:

• Cancel the issue of materials from the warehouse.
• Return issued materials to the warehouse.

Cancel the issue of materials

If you remove a production order, LN tries to cancel the outbound process for the production order's materials.

Note that LN cannot always cancel this process; that also depends on the setting of the warehousing functionality.

Return issued materials

If you select the Return issued Materials check box, LN tries to return the materials that had already been issued. Note however, that the warehousing functionality does not always permit the return of issued materials.

Set production order to Completed

In some situations, LN can no longer delete a production order, or example, if hours have been reported for the production order. In that case, you can change the production order status to Completed and set the quantity completed to zero.

If some production orders cannot be deleted or canceled, and you selected the Complete remaining Orders check box, LN sets those production order to Completed.

If LN sets production orders to deleted, LN also tries to cancel the issuing of materials and optionally tries to return issued materials to the warehouse.

Delete, cancel, or set to completed

If you remove production orders, LN can perform several actions:

• Delete production orders
• Cancel production orders
• Set production orders to completed, with a completed quantity of zero

The actions that you can perform on a production order by using this session, depend on the production orders'production order status. For more information, refer to Production order status.

The following table shows which actions you can execute.

To determine which of the possible actions this session will execute, select or clear the following check boxes:

• Delete
• Cancel
• Return issued Materials
• Complete remaining Orders

Selection of production orders

You can select the production orders that must be removed in two ways:

• Specify ranges of characteristics of production orders.
• Specify an order group. For more information, refer to Order grouping.

Selection ranges

You can specify ranges of characteristics of production orders. Every range you specify further restricts the set of selected production orders.

Some examples of selections of production orders:

• You can remove all production orders for a particular item.
• You can remove production orders for all production orders linked to a particular shop floor planner, planned to start next month or later.

Report

If you remove production orders or simulate the removal of production orders, LN prints a report that indicates what LN did with every selected production order.

The following table shows which actions the report can contain.