Release Production Orders by Production Line
Release Production Orders by Production Line and Manage Materials for Production Line have the same program name (qpbr003.p). You use the two browse collections in conjunction to resolve production line shortages. Both pull in additional browses.
Production schedulers can use Release Production Orders by Production Line to quickly determine if the production schedule is viable for the day, week, month, or any specified time period. Release Production Orders by Production Line provides quick answers for production schedulers when they need to know the following:
• Before releasing a work order (WO) to the floor, are all components available?
• For production orders scheduled over the next one+ days, are there component shortages?
For repetitive production schedules, you can determine if there are material shortages, which components are short and by when, or whether you have enough supply coming in to meet future demand. This is accomplished with a time-phased component shortage engine that calculates availability and lets you view work order component status in terms of shortage severity. That is, you can easily determine which components have a shortage and the level of severity for the shortage.
Because the system provides a time-phased view of component supply and demand, you can know your supply and demand based on any given date, work order, or production line. You can:
• View production schedule data by any combination of site; production line or operation; item, due, or release dates; quantity complete, open, or ordered; and more.
• View both planned and scheduled orders associated with a production line.
• Identify which repetitive orders have material shortages related to them.
• Identify the components causing the shortage related to a repetitive order.
• Locate and determine the cause of material shortages.
• View in-transit supply in the form of ASN receipts.
Release Production Orders by Production Line includes the following programs and browses:
• Work Order Browse - Lists selected work orders along with component shortage severity status. The WO component status that displays is the most severe component status found among the components. The browse is located at the top of the screen.
• Work Order Component Browse - Lists work order components for a particular work order. Each component listed has a component shortage severity status associated with it. The browse is a child of the Work Order Browse, and located in the middle of the screen.
• Work Order Component Details - Contains Supply/Demand Detail and Supply/Demand Summary. The browses are located at the bottom of the screen.
• Supporting Business Process Browses and Programs - The default browse collection contains other supporting browses and programs. For example, Schedule Maintenance is provided so that you can quickly access and modify a scheduled quantity if a material shortage exists. Net Change Materials Plan is also provided so that you can view results once you change the schedule, make a net change, and explode a schedule.
Example
As a Production Planner, you want to ensure that all work orders scheduled over the next week have enough components available. You run Release Production Orders by Production Line to look at work orders that have a release date during the next seven days. To do this, you set search criteria for work order release date for seven days away. You add secondary search criteria to find work order component status that contains a shortage.
The system displays all work orders with a status of 7 (Projected Shortage) or 8 (Shortage). You look at the Supply/Demand Summary Browse to see the cumulative supply and demand information for that work order component detail record. To get more information, you look at the Supply/Demand Detail Browse to view the MRP details the system used to calculate the work order component status.
You have several options to resolve the shortage. You can reschedule either supply or demand. For example, to reschedule supply you can reschedule a purchase order receipt if the component is purchased. Or, if the component is manufactured, you can reschedule a work order. To reschedule demand, you can reschedule a sales order or forecast demand.
Note: The functions and programs described are the defaults; however, you can add other core system browse and maintenance programs that help you resolve shortage problems.
Once you make the change, you refresh the data in Work Order Browse to determine if the shortage no longer exists for the component.