Production plan

The purpose of this function is to record the production of a set of products jointly with a material consumption, on the basis of a work order or on the basis of a BOM without WO.

Prerequisites

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Screen management

This function is customized to the needs of your organization and your processes. The transaction you select determines the way in which you enter information and what information is displayed and printed.

If only one transaction has been set up you are not offered a choice, the default entry screen is displayed. The Production plan function contains a header information section into which you enter your selection (or filtering) criteria. The production tracking details will be built from the reference dates you provide.

Entry screen

Header information

This section makes it possible to enter the different criteria used to select a group of materials to be issued:

  • The production site: it is this site for which the tracking is carried out. This field is initialized with the production site associated with the operator.
  • End date ranges: used to select WO released products to be received in stock with an expected end date included in this date range.
  • WO number ranges: used to set a filter on the work orders to be processed in the operation workbench. This filter is only accessible if the tracking type "WO" is planned by the transaction.
  • Released product ranges: if BOMs are requested and not WOs, these fields are used to set a filter on the BOMs to be processed.
WO Tracking table

All the columns displayed in this table and their display order depend on the setup of the chosen transaction.

The products contained in the table are the released products and sub-products linked to the WOs of the selection, and/or the products manufactured on the BOMs of the selection and/or the lines entered manually in the table.

The pre-loading of the actual quantity fields with the planned quantities or the quantities remaining to be completed depends on the setup of the chosen transaction.

The available columns depend on the type of tracking to be carried out:

  • Posting date: by default the current date is suggested; it is possible to enter an earlier date than the current date but not a later date. Receipts to stock and potential joint stock issues will be posted on this date. The system validates that the entry falls in a period for which stock updates are authorized.
  • Tracking type, WO code, BOM code: in the case of a line entered in the table.
  • Actual quantity and closure flag.

If all the information required to complete the stock entry is not determined automatically, the product is colored in red and the information needs to be entered manually.

Specific actions

Error messages

In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :

The end range is less than the start date

Validation message on entry of selection by range.

Date greater than the current date

This message is displayed if the tracking date entered is greater than the current date.

Insertion impossible 

The entry transaction is used to limit the maximum number of lines in the table: this message is displayed when the table is full.

A material is out of stock and prevents the tracking of this WO (XXXXX)

This message is displayed when creating the tracking for a work order where a material is out of stock and the Release if shortage setup is set to 'No' in the product-site record.

It is only possible to track a WO with status "FIRM"

This message is displayed if the status of the work order is not set to 'Firm'.

Incomplete allocation. Tracking impossible

This message is displayed if the work order is not at a minimum allocated globally and the MKTALLMGT general setup makes this allocation mandatory.

The WO is not printed: Tracking impossible

This message is displayed if the production folder has not been printed and this is mandatory for production to start (according to the DOSFAB general setup).

Incomplete Work Order: Tracking impossible

This message is displayed if the work order is not complete (only materials or only operations) and the WO management plans to complete this order before releasing the production.

Excluded line

This message is displayed if an attempt is made to track an excluded material.

BOM does not exist!

Error message in BOM control mode.

Product blocked for stock count

Message further to product control.

Production reporting: Stock not updated

Error message when validating the table if, for one of the lines, quick entry has failed and manual entry has not been carried out (the product code is displayed in red).

Tables used

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