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alias: tutorials-production-order-planning-inclusion
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description: "Automates material creation linked to production orders, considering quantity and yield variations"
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# 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: [[tutorials-production-order-creation]] and [[tutorials-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.

!!! info
    To review the base configuration model for this tutorial, see: [[tutorials-production-order-creation]]

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.

![Screenshot showing a street address with the text "7 Demo Coowes St" and an unclear character.](../images/po_include_in_planning.png)

### 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.

![Screenshot showing a table with product planning details, including "Belgas [A2] A (Default) + 2 (Effective)" and "TRANSFER INFORMATION".](../images/po_product_planning.png)

### Modeling Notes

!!! note
    If the Material Product Yield is less than 100%, the Material Quantity will not exactly match the **Production Order** Quantity.
    In this case, the system will over dimension the Material Quantity and may create more than one lot, depending on the defined Minimum/Maximum Material Size.

## 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:

<!-- Video filename: po_planning_production_order.mp4 -->
{% set video_id = 'e32fa8090c245e61dd9213beac746255' %}
{% include-markdown 'includes/cloudflare_stream.md' %}

## Master Data

This is the [Master Data file](../masterdatafile/po_material_creation.xlsx) used to create this model.

!!! note
    - This feature was first made available in version 11.0.
    - The model was created in version 11.1.7.

!!! tip
    To continue learning, see other use cases: [[tutorials-production-order-bom-explosion]]