The Work Orders module enables you to manage manufacturing orders in discrete manufacturing environments.

Introduction
Defines work orders and discusses work order life cycles, restrictions, and other features.

Defining Control Settings
Describes using Work Order Maintenance and Master Schedule Order Maintenance as well as types of work order, work order status, routing codes, and BOMs/formulas.

Creating Work Orders
Describes how work orders can be scheduled manually and how lead time calculations and operation schedules are generated.

Scheduling Work Orders
Describes how work order schedules can be controlled manually, lead times can be calculated, and operations can be scheduled.

Modifying Work Orders
Describes how to modify work order bills and routings.

Releasing Work Orders
Outlines the circumstances under which a work order can be released, the effects of releasing an order, and how key items can be used to prevent an order from being released when there are component shortages.

Splitting Work Orders
Describes why splitting orders is sometimes necessary and how splitting an order affects order IDs.

Creating Picklists
Defines a picklist, outlines the basics of picklist logic, and describes printing and reprinting them.

Issuing Components
Describes how to issue components to a work order, how to issue and receive items at sites other than the order site, and work with subcontractors to complete operations.

Receiving Work Orders
Describes how to receive and backflush work orders and manage scrap.

Generating Reports
Describes how to generate types of reports using the Repetitive module.

Closing Work Orders
Describes how to close a work order using Work Order Maintenance or Work Order Accounting Close, as well as how to write procedures for period-sensitive closes and ledger ends.

Deleting Work Orders
Describes the necessary conditions for deleting and/or archiving work orders using Work Order Maintenance, Work Order Accounting Close, and Work Order Delete/Archive.