Manufacturing Order

Manufacturing order (MO) is a broad term used when manufacturing one or several products. A manufacturing order can either be planned or released. A planned order, in turn, can be fixed or automatically replanned by M3. Manufacturing orders can be created for Product which are defined in the product’s basic data. Information about the planned order such as lead time, capacity requirements planning, and resource demands are based on the product structure that is defined in product data. The product structure forms a combination of Material and routing lists.

When a manufacturing order is released, the product structure is copied in product data to create a unique structure in the manufacturing database. Material, routing lists, and lead times are therefore unique for each released order.

Engineering changes that are specified after a manufacturing order is created directly affect planned orders by referencing the same product structure in their basic data. For released orders, where the product structure is unique, the changes can only be activated if you delete the order and then recreate it.

Generate manufacturing order

A planned manufacturing order can be created manually or automatically, depending on requirement calculations. Released manufacturing orders are created through manual entry, or through manual or automatic release of planned orders. Also, manufacturing orders (planned or released) are automatically created when one of these orders is created:

Superior manufacturing order (if it is an order-initiated manufacturing order)
Customer order, direct or through planned order from product configurator
Project order, direct or through planned order from product configurator

General information about the manufacturing order

A manufacturing order contains general information such as planned start and finish dates, times, start and finish points, ordered quantity and unit, status, priority, reference to the demand source, order type, order documents etc.

Status of the manufacturing order indicates where the order is in the manufacturing flow.
Manufacturing can take place in user-defined units and material can be supplied in user-defined units.
Reference – manufacturing orders or the origin of the order:

Superior manufacturing order
Customer order
Project order

To simplify and ease management of an order, an order type that defines characteristics of the order can be connected to every order; for example, the number series that will be used when an order is assigned a number, how the order should be calculated, or how the picking list should be handled.
The proposed number and specific order documents are printed per released MO. Changes can be made at the time of printing.

Material

Items are called routing when they are part of a product. Material for a manufacturing order is connected to the routing in which it is used. The link makes it possible to reserve material up to the connected operation begins. Material can be controlled and managed in different ways, depending on how it is coded. Some of the valid codes are:

In-house manufactured semi-finished or purchased material.
Order-Initiated Manufacturing Order item, for which a manufacturing order is automatically created when a manufacturing order is created for the superior product.
Phantom bill of material item, which in turn is made up of a product structure which, along with the released order, is copied in the superior product.
Yield calculation which is included in the yield calculation.
Active item which contains a potency or concentrate.
Bi-product which becomes usable extra material when the product is manufactured.
Co-product which becomes an extra product when the main product is manufactured.

Routings

Routing on the manufacturing order contains information on which work center will be affected, run time and setup time, production rate, number of resources, planned scrap, piece rate prices, fixed lead time, and so on.

For each operation, an unlimited number of operation elements can be specified to represent the rate, tools, documents, or project message.

For product structures, alternate routing and routing lists can be specified. For both planned and released orders, an alternate choice may be selected.

Material and routing lists can be dimensioned and chosen at the same time a product is configured.

If the MO being received has an order type that supports Dynamic aging (AGIG=2), a user can update the manual reclass date and time that would have defaulted from the MO or was calculated from the Aging parameters from the Item-warehouse. This date and time will populate the planned reclass date and time on the lot being received.