Production Orders Control and Reporting Features and Functions

• Multiple order types


• Identifies different types of work orders (such as stock, customer, expense, final assembly, detail parts, etc.) so they can be processed using specific requirements


• Sorts and categorizes manufacturing orders by type (e.g., custom order, replenishment, rework, stock, etc.)


• Batch and online access order headers that identify and detail manufacturing orders


• Work order contains information on the WIP account, cost center, and project


• Order status summary reports


• Splits and merges orders destined for production


• Manufacturing or work orders can be divided for production


• Accepts text and comments by users


• Manufacturing orders can be closed online


• Closes orders that have not been sent to inventory or which have been sent to inventory but will no longer be produced (close order short)


• Orders that are a part of a flow process are automatically closed by the system


• Completed units can either be sent to inventory for processing or moved into the next operation


• Flags material and labor discrepancies


• Displays in-process per-unit costs


• Assigns costs of a group of manufacturing or work orders to particular stations as each unit is produced


• Tracks the material and labor costs of a work order


• Generates reports based on design, plan, and actual building of products


• Closes work orders so costs, labor, or material cannot be added


• Generates reports on labor efficiency and material usage variances


• Automatically tracks and maintains inventory


• Items move from one operation to the next when a subcontract processing order is received


• Releases work orders as they are completed


• When an operation is complete, the product is automatically assigned to warehouse inventory, or reported to project or customer order as finished


• Records production variances in rate, usage, and method


• Automatically borrows or pays back material required to fulfill an order


• Records and monitors the material that was either consigned or borrowed for an order


• Moves items to the next phase of an operation, automatically


• Generates reports on operation yields, manufacturing time, and material efficiency


• Tracks and records operation transactions


• Uses subcontract PO receipts to log operation histories


• Generates detailed reports on the amount of time it takes for a work order to move through operations or the labor time involved


• Creates production reports by pay points


• Generates reports on hours worked


• Reports direct and indirect labor overhead costs


• Generates labor reports by shift, department, machine, and pay rate


• Labor time transfer to payroll, straight, OT, double-time


• Documents the actual material used in an operation and by lot


• Records material usage variance by lot and by operation


• Compares actual run time against planned run time, by order and workstation


• Reports setup, run, and rework times


• Units made


• Contract costs, earned value, and G/L data can be entered online


• Interfaces with data collection systems


• Collects data in real time


• Multiple data input options


• Generates report that specifies exceptions or discrepancies


• Generates reports on materials or productions that were rejected, by task, work center, or machine


• Monitors labor costs for rework orders


• Order cost variances by hours, materials, surcharges, and subcontracting


• Reports on the status of co- and by-products produced during any step in a process


• Provides standard production templates for reports


• Tracks and controls by- and co-products


• Calculates quantities produced at each step, regardless of their UOM


• Generates an edit report on shop floor transactions, including quantity variances, and quantity versus material received at a work center, and for an item, order, and operation


• Transactions are automatically posted to a work order header and operation detail records


• Records the standard, allocated, or actual hours involved in completing an order


• Documents and reports the number of planned, actual, and booked hours used by a work center or department


• Updates the labor costs of a current item, automatically


• Documents cost of overtime by department or work order


• Posts costs to G/L


• Posts transaction errors to error suspense file


• Posts transactions to history file


• Interfaces with cost accounting systems and documents production standards


• Generates reports on scheduling, production efficiency, downtime, and scrap


• Generates reports on production efficiency exceptions and work center utilization


• Generates reports on operation status, by manufacturing order


• Defines and assigns status codes for manufacturing operations


• Generates reports on transaction history


• Saves and stores errors in a file or database for later consideration and generates an error suspense file report


• Generates reports on production efficiency


• Generates reports on employee, work center, and work order efficiency


• Inquiries and reports on variances of queue inputs and outputs


• Documents the hours a work center is in operation


• Documents labor and overhead by calculating variance in rate, usage, and method


• Throughput calculations


• Calculates variances


• Generates reports on operation time lost due to maintenance, repair, or setup


• Compiles and details information on schedule performance, efficiency (production, exceptions), idle production time, and scrap yields by user-specified timeframes


• Archives production information for quality control or to rework products under warranty


• Reports aggregate estimated and actual results for product group histories


• Records the operation times of typical items


• Information can be converted and used by bar code interfaces


• Categorizes and identifies downtime, and scrap types and scrap yields by reason codes


• Items required for a work center or customer order can be moved to a bin on the line


• Documents the hours of milestone events


• Documents the hours of events during an operation


• Specifies consumption policies, including the delivery and use of materials (as outlined in the BOM) for continuous and automatic consumption


• Establishes consumption timetable as orders are completed


• Tracks, stores, and merges information on the movement of material that has been received and stocked


• Scrap or parts of scrap from a scrap transaction are removed either between or at count points


• Inventory is automatically reduced based on the configuration of an item, once the item is complete


• The labor and resources used in a routing is automatically recorded once the activity or process is complete


• Sends notification when over- or under-runs occur


• Generates reports when at a milestone, or when process is done


• Generates reports using item numbers or based on operations


• Raw materials and subassemblies are automatically deducted from inventory when an operation is completed


• Automatically deducts material from inventory (backflushing) on reaching a milestone or when receiving an inventory receipt


• Multilevel backflushing


• Defines milestones and count points


• Documents the use of unexpected material or labor


• Daily production schedule specifies when and where material will be used during operations


• Reschedules resources and operations based on capacity and work order


• Detail and summary views of work center loads


• Information can be displayed in graphical format, including tables


• Production rates and requirements, and capacity among other variables are used to create predictive production schedules


• What-if scenarios use finite forward methods to determine when a production run will end


• Production line runs are planned by using finite loading and forward schedules


• Changes in actual production and in the master schedule trigger changes to line and work center schedules


• Scheduling integrated to other planning and production modules


• Schedule and track engineering hours in the same manner as production work centers


• Planned production orders can be monitored, changed, and released at grouped level of style or style/option


• Manual entry of production orders for a style in matrix grid format


• Groups together multiple orders into a cut


• Groups together multiple orders into other aggregations (e.g., kitting order)


• Allocates raw materials to a grouped order


• Reports material usage against a grouped order


• Reports production operations against grouped orders


• Splits orders into bundles for a sewing line


• Outputs for printing bundle tickets


• Feedback production by bundle


• Opens interface to piecework payroll from bundle management