Production orders - functional overview
A production order comprises the order to produce an item and the conditions under which manufacturing takes place, such as the routing that is used, the delivery date, and the order quantity.
A production order can be used for:
- Production of anonymous items
- Standard-to-order production
- Production of customized items
If multisite functionality is active, production orders are generated for one or more sites.
Manufacture details may vary between sites.
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Origin of production orders
A production order is usually generated by a planning algorithm, such as master-based planning or order-based planning, and is subsequently transferred to a manufacturing module. You can also manually create production orders in Enterprise Planning
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Processing new production orders
When a new production order is created, the master data for the product is copied from the company level to the site where production takes place.
For more information on item data with multisite activated see: Item data
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Duplicating production orders
Click in the menu or the toolbar to duplicate the production order, which means that the production header information is copied. The production order's original material and operations are not copied for a number of reasons:
- Some materials in the job shop bill of material, or some operations may be invalid because of engineering changes or changes in the planning cluster.
- The warehouses, item definition, standard cost, may have changed, which can lead to inconsistent orders.
- Operation texts or drawings can be linked to the production order. Note: LN cannot determine which data must be copied because this can differ for every occasion. LN cannot make a distinction between original and modified data.
- Production order costing can be different for the original and the duplicated production order, the production order may be manufactured at a different site in the same planning cluster, but linked to a different enterprise unit.
- All warehouse orders and related data must always be regenerated.
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Order status
Production orders go through a number of order statuses, such as:
- Created
- Printed
- Released
The order status determines which actions can be performed on a production order.
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Estimated and actual costs
The estimated costs for a production order are based on the BOM and the routing (estimated costing). During production, the hours that are actually spent and the materials that are actually used are posted (actual costing). When the production order is closed, the result of the production order is calculated.