Work centers

Use this field to identify this work center. This is a production resource at which a routing operation is carried out. It is used for planning load times (preparation time, waiting time and post run time), and tracking production time.

You must define the manufacturing site at which this work center is operated, and associate this work center with a group of similar work centers.

Use this field to define the manufacturing site at which this work center is operated.

This long description is used as a title in screens and reports.

By default the short title, the long title or the column header of a data are recorded (on creation/update) in the connection language of the user.

You can add your translation in another language using the Translation function:

• Click Translation from the Actions icon in the corresponding field.
• In the Translation window, add a new language code with the translation in this language.

A user who logs on with this language will view the short description, long description or column header in their connection language if a translation exists. Otherwise, these descriptions will be available in the folder language.

The connection language must be defined as a default language for thefolder.

Short title used in the screens and reports. This title is recorded in your connection language.

By default the short title, the long title or the column header of a data are recorded (on creation/update) in the connection language of the user.

You can add your translation in another language using the Translation function:

• Click Translation from the Actions icon in the corresponding field.
• In the Translation window, add a new language code with the translation in this language.

A user who logs on with this language will view the short description, long description or column header in their connection language if a translation exists. Otherwise, these descriptions will be available in the folder language.

The connection language must be defined as a default language for thefolder.

Use this field to identify the group of work centers to which this work center belongs. Work center groups are used to review workloads.

This field identifies the type of operation that is performed at this work center. This might be a machine, a labor resource, or a subcontracted operation. Work centers of type Subcontracting are managed externally by subcontract suppliers.

Use this field to assign the workers shift pattern for this work center. For example, a time structure that defines a start time at 08:00 and a end time at 17:42, tha t is, 7 hours and 42 minutes of work.

Should you need to change a work center or its capacity once it is being used in the manufacturing process, you can change the weekly stru cture or assign a different weekly capacity using the Work centers modification function (FUNTDUPDW) or Variation of capacity function (FUNTDUVAR), as appropriate.

Calendars are used for calculating the capacity of a work center.

A calendar can be common to multiple work centers or specific to an individual work centre. It is made up of a succession of periods linked to weekly schedules.

Use this field to link this work center with your financial accounting. The costing dimension provides financial information on which the calculation of the provisional costs, and the production cost price are based.

Use this field to define the number that are required for an operation at this particular production resource. For example, if three people are needed to operate this (labor) work center, type in 3.

You must set this field to 1 if you are using the generic Finite scheduleradvanced interface. The Finite scheduler interface provides an integration connector to connect to Sage X3 Web Scheduling or to any web scheduling solution developed by an ISV (independent software vendor) for either cloud or on-premises solutions. The advance interface is active if the GFSA - Finite scheduler advanced activity code is active. Sage X3 Web Scheduling cannot optimize production times when multiple resources are assigned to a work center. This is a limitation of Sage X3 Web Scheduling.

This percentage defines the threshold being applied to automatically close the materials during production tracking.

For instance, if the value is 95% and the material requirement is 200 UN, the system will suggest to close the material if the consumed quantity is greater than or equal to 190 UN.

Use this field to define the default location of this production resource at the defined manufacturing site.

This value is used by stock movement transactions such as receipts, issues, and location changes. It is also used when a component is assigned to an operation where the allocation rule filters by location.

The qualification level is a 10-character alphanumeric reference field only.

Select this check box if this work center must continue running whilst the operator is on a break, or an exclusive indirect task.

This field is only available for work centers of type Machine.

A constraint work center is considered by the optimization function as a work center with finite capacity, whilst a non constraint work center has infinite capacity.

Select this check box to indicate that this work center is associated with constraints in terms of finite capacity (machine or labor).

Rough Cut Capacity Planning in the translation of the French abbreviation "PGC" (for "Planification Globale des Capacités").

This check box characterizes this work center. Select this check box if an operation at this work center is identified as being critical during the manufacturing process. A critical operation is particularly significant when generating macro-routings.

Efficiency is a way to measure compliance to the preset standards. It can be calculated over a given period by work center: Standard hours calculated for a given production divided by the actual hours worked.

Efficiency makes it possible to correct the standard times of the routing (multiplying factor) according to the used resource.

Two efficiency rates are managed depending on the following:

• Work center: The rate is applied to all the routing operations that will take place at the work center.
• Routing operation: The rate only applies to the considered operation.

If both factors are entered, they add up. The calculated operating time is corrected in the following way: work center efficiency * operation efficiency * time.

The WSTEFFINH - Work center efficiency history parameter (GPA chapter, MIS group) is used to specify whether the efficiency defined at work center level should be used on the routing operation.

• If WSTEFFINH is set to Yes, the efficiency entered in the work center is suggested by default when creating the routing operation with this work center.
  The calculated runtime = runtime entered * 1 / operation efficiency.
• If WSTEFFINH is set to No, the efficiency entered in the work center is combined with that entered in the routing operation.
  The calculated runtime = runtime entered * 1 / work center efficiency * 1 / operation efficiency.

This percentage is used to balance the quantities on the production operations based on the released quantity.

It is possible to introduce a shrinkage percentage on the work center, which is used to weight the planned runtimes for an operation using this work center by a loss or gain on the quantity produced for the work center.

This field displays the total estimated time for operational work at this work center.

This field displays the total operational time at this work center.

Use this field to assign this work center to a specific cost type. Cost types are used by Project management. In a labor context, a cost type defines the types of labor resource that can affect a project such as operator costs.

Type in, or select the first date of the period of non-availability of this work center. For example, a specific date this work center is not available because of maintenance, or the first date of an operator's leave of absence.

Type in, or select the last date of the period of non-availability of this work center. For example, a specific date this work center is not available because of maintenance, or the last date of an operator's leave of absence.

Use this field to define the workers shift pattern against which this exception to the availability of this work center applies. The default shift pattern is the shift pattern defined in the Structure field (TWD).

For this exception to the availability of this work center, use this field to define the variation to the number in the No. of resources field (WSTNBR) that are required for an operation at this particular production resource. For example, if 3 people are defined as needed to operate this (labor) work center but an operator is not available for the defined Capacity variation dates, type in 1.

Click Text from the Actions icon to view, enter or modify text associated with this exception to the capacity of this work center.

Click Operation loads from the Actions icon to display an overview of the load in progress for this work center.

Click Variations and loads from the Actions icon to modify the capacity of this work center. Operations will be adjusted and rescheduled for this exception. Optionally you can reschedule an associated work order without modifying the operation.

The dates of this specific capacity variation are uploaded to the Work center/capacity variation function (FUNTDUCAP).

Type in, or select a suitable work center that can be used instead of this work center should this work center breakdown or a bottleneck occur, for example.

The description of the work center.

Use this field to prioritize this replacement work center. The value must be a number.

This field identifies the group of work centers to which this work center belongs. Work center groups are used to review workloads.

This field identifies the type of operation that is performed at this work center. This might be a machine, a labor resource, or a subcontracted operation. Work centers of type Subcontracting are managed externally by subcontract suppliers.

Use this field to assign an optimization matrix to this work center. An optimization matrix links products and attributes defined in setup time matrices to define reduced setup times for products with like products to optimize production.

This field is only available if the GFSA - Finite scheduler advanced activity code is active, and the No. of resources field (WSTNBR) is set to 1.

This field identifies this setup time matrix.

This field contains the processing period end date.

This field displays the selected date.

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from firm work orders.

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from planned work orders.

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from the material requirements planning calculations.

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from the master productions schedule calculations.

Processing period start date.

Click Load in progress from the Actions icon for a node on the graph to view the load for this work center from the work order operations assigned to this work center for the selected date.

Click the Load in progress action to view the load in progress for this work center.

Click the Variations and loads action to access the Work center/capacity variation function (FUNTDUCAP) in order to modify the capacity of this work center. You can use the Work center/capacity variation function to adjust and reschedule operations where the number of resources required for the operations being processed at this work center are changed, and where a capacity variation is defined. You can also use this function to reschedule an associated work order without modifying the operation.

You can also access the Work center/capacity variation function from the Variations and loads action on a line in the Capacity variation table in the Variation section. If accessed from the Actions icon, the dates of the specific capacity variation are displayed.

Click the Recalculate loads action to recalculate the load on this work center. A log is displayed at the end of the recalculation run.

Sage advises that you run this process if there is an ad-hoc variation to the capacity of this work center, such as a change to the assigned weekly structure, or the default number of resources that are required for an operation at this particular production resource.