This section provides overviews of the Production planning business process components, lists the forms associated with each business process component, and discusses the tasks associated with each business process component.
Schedule production activities
Production business process component forms
The following table lists the forms that support the Production business process component. The table entries are organized by business process component task and then alphabetically by form name.
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Business process component task |
Form name |
Usage |
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Finalize engineering |
Create production order |
Create and define a new production order. |
Schedule production activities |
Job scheduling |
Production - Job scheduling- Create and run a job schedule. |
Operations scheduling |
Production - Operations scheduling- Create and run an operations schedule. |
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Issue materials |
Release |
Production - Release- Release production orders that are ready for the shop floor. |
Produce and test incl. subcontracting |
Start |
Production - Start- Send production orders into production on the shop floor. |
Release product for delivery |
Bills of materials |
View posted or unposted inventory transactions. |
Report as finished |
Report BOM as finished- Report a bill of materials as finished. |
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Calculate production costs |
End |
Production - End- Finish production orders and assign them the status. |
Estimation |
Production - Estimation- Select a production order and run an estimate of how much it will consume in material and capacity costs. |
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Analyze production costs |
Price calculation |
Production - Price calculation- Calculate the estimated cost and sales prices for production lines. |
Production posting |
View a list of posted production orders. |
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Variance form |
Analyze the production variances. |