The production stages Release, Start, and Report as finishedare a part of actual production control. These stages direct or regulate the movements of goods through the complete manufacturing cycle, from the requisitioning of raw materials to the delivery of finished products.
You can raise a production order to the status Reported as finished through the standard production order update function or through the production journal . From the journal, you can update several productions simultaneously by selecting and posting them all. If has been selected, the status of all production orders included in this process is changed to Reported as finished.
Reporting
some of the items in the production order as finished
You can report that only some of the items in the production order are finished. If you report part of a production order as finished, work centers are made available for other production tasks. If you report a production order as finished through the standard production order update function, you can receive information about the quantity of items already produced and the number of units produced in error so that you know what has already been posted and how much is still missing.
