Repetitive Completions
When a routing has many operations, there may be a few that are used to report completions, called milestone operations.
Milestone Operations
In Routing Maintenance (14.13.1), you can define any operation—including standard operations—to be a milestone. At a milestone operation, that operation and all previous non-milestone operations are backflushed when repetitive labor is reported. The last operation is always treated as a milestone.
The following rules govern reporting:
• You cannot report labor against a non-milestone operation.
• You can report setup, downtime, reject, and scrap against a non-milestone operation. However, this reporting does not affect WIP.
• If you report scrap or reject at a non-milestone operation, it will backflush at that operation.
If you do not report setup at non-milestone operations and report labor at milestone operations, the standard setup will be backflushed. If you report setup at the milestone operation, then no setup will be backflushed.