Use this activity to create a new shop order for a specified part. When you create a shop order, you specify whether the shop order should be scheduled backward or forward. With backward scheduling, the system schedules material requirements and operations based on the need or finish date that you enter. The start date is equal to the need date minus the total manufacture time. With forward scheduling, you enter the earliest start date. The finish date is equal to sum of the earliest start date and the total manufacture time.
Note: You cannot create a shop order manually if you have a multilevel configuration.
The part that you want to manufacture must have been entered in the Inventory Part window. For the system to automatically create allocations, the part must have a buildable structure. If a routing is used, it must be in the Buildable state. For prototype shop orders, you can use a structure/routing in the Tentative state as well. The system cannot reserve, issue to, or receive an order if there are no allocations on it.
As a result of this activity the system creates a new shop order for the selected part. When this happens, the system creates material requirements and schedules operations. It retrieves operations and structures according to the part, structure revision and alternative, and routing revision and alternative that you entered.
Initially the Revision/Alternate fields will be filled by the application once the lot size is entered. You can modify the application suggested values. If you navigate or enter values for any of the Revision/Alternate fields, those values will not be changed by the application when the start date changes as a result of entering the lot size. The ability to specify values for Revision/Alternate that differ from the ones suggested as a default by the application allows you to manufacture either future or past revisions of the part. Once the record is saved, you can change the Revision/Alternate values by using the Update Allocations and/or Operations right mouse button option.
When the manufactured part on a manually created shop order does not have an appropriate buildable structure revision/alternative, enter the part revision in the Structure Revision field and add components later in the Material tab.
Shop Orders
Shop Order
Shop
Order/Material
Shop Order/Operation
Shop Order/Operation Tools
Shop Order/Detail
Shop Order/Byproduct
From the Shop Order window:
Note: If you have specified a value in the Close Tolerance field of the Inventory Part/Manufacturing tab, it will display in the Tolerance field of the relevant shop order by default.
From the Shop Orders window:
Note: You have to manually enter the structure revision and routing revision in order to create prototype shop orders. That is, no automatic fetching of structure/routing revisions takes place according to the date/serial effectivity of the part. You can use either the Prototype or the Manufacturing structure/routing type when you create prototype shop orders.