Production Order Planning Inclusion#

To help you reduce the time spent creating and assigning materials to a given Production Order, Critical Manufacturing MES includes a Production Order property named Include In Planning. When enabled, this property triggers automatic Material creation when you performs the Start action on the Production Order.

Based on the Production Order quantity to be fulfilled, and the Product details defined for Material Lot Size and Yield, the system can create a lot sized to meet the Production Order Quantity at the end of the process — even considering potential yield loss along the Material flow path.

Scenario#

To continue the learning path for the Production Order module, this tutorial explores the same Use Case from the earlier sections of this tutorial: Production Order Creation and Production Order Execution. Only a few additional configurations are required here, as detailed in the following section.

Modeling#

The base model for this tutorial follows the same steps outlined in the first section of this tutorial.

When setting up the model in the same way, there are a few additional configurations required:

Include In Planning#

This Production Order property automates the Material creation process and ensures that Materials are properly assigned to the Production Order for which they are created.

Product Planning Details#

These Product properties define how Production Order material quantities (number of lots and lot size) are determined. Considering the Production Order quantity and the Product Planning details that can affect Material creation and yield during the manufacturing process, the system calculates the required number of Materials and their lot sizes accordingly.

Modeling Notes#

Execution#

The Include In Planning property allows the system to automatically create the Materials with the quantity needed to meet the Production Order quantity, even accounting for potential yield loss during manufacturing.

This action is triggered when selecting the Start button, which changes the Production Order state from Created to Released.

See below a video example illustrating this behavior:

Master Data#

This is the Master Data file used to create this model.