Production operations are used to provide your complete control over your production operations and manufacture orders on production lines, materials and semi-products.
The decision about the items and their quantities to be produced is made as a result of your
Planning operations and production orders are issued accordingly. You can save your bills of material on a production order basis particularly if you operate on order basis, to avoid that your production orders are not affected by the modifications on the bills of materials. You can obtain the required materials from the warehouses by means of picking lists, monitor the material onhand quantities and production order quantities-to-deliver.
Consumptions can be automatically issued from the bill of material during the production operation or with manual changes from the proposed bill of material. In this way you will be able to run the most accurate consumption, waste, etc. calculations, get comparative reports with the bill of material and reflect the differences to your costs.
Automatic receipt and issue operations and also consumption of available inventory can be run for phantom (auto) semi-products.
The instant production planning application will collect your existing customer orders and manufacture orders, compare them with your inventories and instantly report about material shortages. In this way you will have full control over your inventories. This operation can be deemed as a practical material requirements planning operation without a time axis.
The capability to monitor the traceability from the receipt of the material through to the shipping of the product, the linchpin of customer satisfaction and services after sales, can be attained with the
series-lot application .