Overview
Whether a Work Order is planned by Material Requirements Planning or entered manually, the Work Order Routing Operations and the Work Order Component Records are sourced from the Engineering Item Master, Engineering Bill of Material, and Routing Master to create the Work Order Component and Operation records.
Navigation
Work Order > Extract Component & Operation Button
Application
When the Extract Components button is selected, the Engineering Bill of Material is copied and extended by the Work Order quantity to create the Work Order Component records. After the Work Order components have been “extracted,” they can be edited, added to, and deleted.
Manually Entered Work Orders – Extract Operations and Components
After a Work Order is “Manually Entered” and saved, the ‘Extract Operation' button is used to extract the Manufacturing Engineering Routing for the Parent Item, which is then copied and extended by the Work Order quantity to create timed Work Order Operations. The Work Order Routing Operations are “extracted” by first searching for an item’s Routing Master Record. However, if no item number routing master has been defined, the extract function uses the item’s “Inventory Commodity Code” Routing Item Master record. After the Work Order Operations have been “extracted” they can be edited, added to and deleted.
IMPORTANT When extracting the Routing Operations, if the Parent Inventory Item has the value for the 'Item for Routing Extract' field, then the system will extract the Routing for the alternate item defined on 'Item for Routing Extract' instead of looking for the Parent Item’s own Routing.
NOTE Before the extraction occurs, the User is able to enter an ‘Alternate Routing’ code. If used, this will cause the extraction to include routing steps that have been defined as ‘alternates’ when the routing master was created.
When the Extract Components button is selected, the Engineering Bill of Material is copied and extended by the Work Order quantity to create the Work Order Component records. After the Work Order components have been “extracted” they can be edited, added to, and deleted.
Max Sets Button
When Extract Components is performed and order is at least at status = 3, if you click on the Edit button, a button will appear labeled "Max Sets". Click on this and the system will look at the various components associated with the Work Order and will pop up a message box that informs the user what the maximum number of the Parent Item that can be produced based on the availability of the given Work Order components. If the Work Order is for a quantity of 10 and has 3 components, all 1 per, and for one of the components there are only 5 available in inventory, the User will be told they can produce 5 based on current inventory. In the popup, the User is given the option to change the order quantity (and associated components) to match the maximum number producible at that point in time. Click 'OK' on the message to have the system automatically adjust the order to the Max Set quantity.
MRP Planned Work Orders – Extract Operations and Components
When a Work Order has been “Planned by Material Requirements Planning”, its status is ‘Planned’ (Status=1). The item’s Routing Master and Operation have not been extracted and the item’s Bill of Material has been extracted. At the time the Planner adjusts the Work Order to a Firmed status (Status=2) the 'Extract Operations' button is presented for selection (See Work Orders > Mass Firm Work Orders page help). The ‘Extract Operations' button is used to extract the Engineering Routing for the item. The Work Order Routing Operations are “extracted” first from the item’s Routing Master Record. However, if no item number routing master is defined, the item’s “Inventory Commodity Code” Routing Item Master record is used. After the Work Order Routing Operations have been “extracted” they can be edited, added to, and deleted.
NOTE As with manually created Work Orders, the User is presented with the opportunity to also enter an ‘alternate’ code to extract Routing Operations that have been defined as alternates.
After selecting the Extract buttons, the resulting operations and components records can be edited, added to, and deleted in the Work Order section “Related Lists”.
Work Orders - Routing Extract/Operations: Alternate Operations
The Alternate Operation Code functionality provides the ability to select an Alternate Operation Code, which will cause operations having the selected alternate code to be extracted along with the Standard Operations. An Alternate Operation Code is not required to be specified during the Extract Operations process (See also Shop Floor > Routing Master for discussion of alternate operations).
Alternate operations codes are used when it is necessary to have pre-defined alternate (selectable) operations of manufacture or rework operations for an item.
NOTE It may be possible to route an item through different Work Centers and the decision as to which Work Center to use on this Work Order is decided at the time or ‘‘extract operation’’. Each alternate, or grouping of alternates, is given a ‘unique’ code and the desired alternate for this Work Order is chosen during routing extraction.
Key Concepts
SEE ALSO
Work Order Related Lists
Work Order Header Information
Work Order Sources
Work Order Overview
