Production Order overview

The Lawson Production Order application allows you to manage, plan and track assembly and production processes to fulfill demand for finished goods.

The Production Order application is integrated with the Inventory Control applications so that needed components are designated for the production process. For information, see the Inventory Control User Guide.

The Production Order application interacts with the Lawson Warehouse application to process document demand. Customer orders and internal requisitions are created in the Order Entry and Requisitions applications. For information, see the Lawson Distribution Management User Guide or the Requisitions User Guide.

These are the major features and benefits:

• Define the bill of materials for the finished goods

• Determine how to calculate and track burden costs

• Track inventory component and packaging usage

• Schedule demand to create work orders

• Explode a bill of material to show total components and costs

• Allocate the components required to produce goods

• Substitute components on work orders

• Perform picking feedback to update inventory

• Use offsite locations and components

• Track by-products and expense component waste

• Track components, finished goods, and by-products by bin, lot, sublot, serial number, and multiple unit of measure

These sections provide an overview of this chapter: