Cumulative Order Close

Use Cumulative Order Close (18.22.10) to select and close open cumulative orders according to various criteria. You can optionally create successive cumulative orders and transfer WIP queue balances to them. Cumulative orders must have an end effective date on or before the End Effective value you enter. Orders with a blank end effective date will not be selected.

Note: To close orders with blank end effective dates, first enter an end effective date using Cumulative Order Maintenance (18.22.6).

Closing a cumulative order performs the same processing as the Post Accumulated Usage Variances transaction. Variances are calculated, posted, and reported. When Transfer WIP is Yes, WIP queue balances are transferred from the closed cumulative orders to new cumulative orders.

To close a cumulative order before its end effective date, use Cumulative Order Maintenance to set the end effective date to yesterday’s date. The system creates a new cumulative order for the balance of the period if the End Eff Default Method is set to 1 or 2 in Repetitive Control (18.22.24).

To transfer WIP values and quantities from closed orders to new cumulative orders, set Transfer WIP to Yes in Cumulative Order Close. The system searches for a cumulative order with the same profile (site, item number, production line, routing, and product structure code) and a start effective date equal to the day after the end effective date specified in the selection criteria.


If	Then
An open cumulative order exists,	it receives the WIP quantities of the cumulative order being closed.
A closed cumulative order exists,	WIP quantities do not transfer.
There is no cumulative order,	the system creates a new one to which WIP is transferred.

Cumulative Order Close does the following for each operation in the cumulative orders selected for processing:

• When Transfer WIP is Yes, this is the WIP Transfer account specified in Repetitive Control.

2 Records the posting event by creating an operation history record of type Close.

When Transfer WIP is Yes, the system transfers WIP queue quantities from each cumulative order operation that meets the following conditions:

The system follows these steps to transfer WIP queue balances from closed cumulative orders to new orders:

1 For each operation with a WIP quantity to transfer, the system searches for an operation in the receiving order with the same operation code. If it finds one, it proceeds with the transfer. Otherwise, it ignores that operation and does not transfer the WIP.

Note: For the system to transfer WIP to the first operation in the receiving order, the corresponding operation in the transferring order must also be the first operation, in addition to having the same operation code. Unless both these conditions are met, the system ignores the operation and does not transfer WIP.

2 The system transfers the WIP queue quantities from the old cumulative order operations to the output queues in the receiving order operations.

3 The system records the transfer by creating an operation history record of type Transfer.

4 The system generates the appropriate GL transactions to transfer the WIP value to the new cumulative order.

5 When the cost of the WIP queue inventory for an old cumulative order operation differs from the cost at the receiving operation, the system posts the difference to Method Variance.

After these calculations are complete, a residual value may remain in WIP. This is because when the system debits WIP during repetitive reporting transactions, fractional values may remain in WIP due to rounding differences. These residual values accumulate in WIP until the cumulative order is closed. Cumulative Order Close posts the residual WIP value from each closed cumulative order to Method Variance.