Release Production Orders by Work Center and Manage Materials for Work Center have the same program name (qpbr005.p). You use the two browse collections in conjunction to resolve work center shortages. Both pull in additional browses.

Production schedulers can use Release Production Orders by Work Center to quickly determine component availability for discrete work orders for a particular work center. Checking components by work center lets production schedulers know if the production schedule is viable for the week. Release Production Orders by Work Center provides quick answers for production schedulers when they need to know the following:

For discrete work orders, 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.

Release Production Orders by Work Center includes the same supporting programs and browses that Release Production Orders by Production Line uses.

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 Work Center 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.