Delete One or Several Manufacturing Orders

This document explains how you delete one or several manufacturing orders (MO).

Outcome

The MO is deleted. The information about the order and the load and material have been deleted from M3. In addition, the work center schedule has been changed.

These files are affected:

Manufacturing order headers, stored in (MWOHED)
Manufacturing order operations, stored in (MWOOPE)
Manufacturing order materials, stored in (MWOMAT)
Planning group work/year, stored in (MWLOAD)
Detailed load for rough-cut capacity planning, stored in (MCPSPE)
Capacity/load per resource and week, stored in (MCPSUM).

Before you start

See Work Center Scheduling Manufacturing Order

Note: Using 'Manufact Order. Delete' (PMS030) and 'Manufact Order. Mass Delete' (PMS640), you only can delete MOs which have a status lower than 90 and with no active picking lists.

Follow These Steps

Select one of these options:

To delete one MO, follow steps 1-6.
To delete several MOs (mass deletion), follow steps 7-17.

To delete one MO, start 'Manufact Order. Delete' (PMS030).
Select the desired product number and MO number.
On the File menu, click New. The E panel is displayed.
Select whether you want MOs on lower levels to be deleted as well.

The field is only displayed when lower levels exist.
Check the fields. If the values are correct, press Enter to display the B1 panel.

If the values are not correct, you can go back to the B panel to find the MO you want to delete.
Check the MO in the table. If it is the correct MO, click Finish to delete the MO.

If you do not want to delete the MO, select option 4=Delete Entry.
To perform a mass deletion, start 'Manufact Order. Mass Delete' (PMS640/E).
Enter interval values in the selection criteria fields on the E and F panels.

For example, if you want to delete MOs with responsible IABAB0, you have to enter IABAB0 in both fields.
If you have marked several selection criteria, you must select a sorting order. Enter a number in the ‘Sorting Order’ field after the selection criteria fields on the E and F panels.
Select the Break check box after the selection criteria field on the E and F panels if you want a new page break for every new selection criteria on the report.

11 Select the Break check box after the selection criteria field on the E and F panels if you want a new page break for every new selection criteria on the report.

The G Panel
Select the Update check box if you want the selected MOs to be deleted.
Select the generating method as the criteria for the MOs you want to delete.

For example, if you want to exclude an MO generated via manual entry, you select 0 instead of 1, customer order 0 instead of 2, etc.
Select whether you want the name of the item or just the item number printed on the report.
Select a date format.
Select a report layout
Enter the report text.
Press Enter to finish.