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description: "This documentation guides process flow management and material sorting within a manufacturing system"
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# Routing & Dispatching: How To

In any manufacturing environment, it’s necessary to define in a controlled manner the different process flows that can be assigned to products and materials. These process flows can also include rework flows to recover material from certain problems.

Dispatching provides a mechanism to define flexible material sorting rules for a step or for a resource so that the operator knows what is the next material to be processed, or the next resource for a material. Dispatching works based on services. Resources provide services and materials require services at certain processing contexts (Step, Flow, Product, etc.). When there is a match between the service required by the material and the service provided by the resource, the material can be dispatched and processed in that resource.

## Available guides

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| Module | Title | Guide | PDF |
| ---- | ---- | -- | :-: |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Add a Storage Service to a Step](howto_addstorageservicetostep.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_addstorageservicetostep/howto_addstorageservicetostep.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Associate a Service to a Resource](howto_associateservicetoresource.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_associateservicetoresource/howto_associateservicetoresource.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Associate a Step to a Service](howto_associatesteptoservice.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_associatesteptoservice/howto_associatesteptoservice.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Create a Flow](howto_createflow.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_createflow/howto_createflow.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Create a Reason](howto_createreason.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_createreason/howto_createreason.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Create a Service](howto_createservice.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_createservice/howto_createservice.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Create a Step](howto_createstep.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_createstep/howto_createstep.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Dispatch](howto_dispatch.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_dispatch/howto_dispatch.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Manage an Off-Flow](howto_manageoffflow.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_manageoffflow/howto_manageoffflow.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Manage the Reason-Step relation](howto_managereasonsteprelation.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_managereasonsteprelation/howto_managereasonsteprelation.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Manage Step Logical Names](howto_managesteplogicalnames.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_managesteplogicalnames/howto_managesteplogicalnames.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Move Next](howto_movenext.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_movenext/howto_movenext.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Record Loss/Bonus](howto_recordlossbonus.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_recordlossbonus/howto_recordlossbonus.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Rework Material](howto_reworkmaterial.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_reworkmaterial/howto_reworkmaterial.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Send Material to a Temporary Off-Flow](howto_temporaryoffflow.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_temporaryoffflow/howto_temporaryoffflow.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Track-In](howto_trackin.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_trackin/howto_trackin.pdf) |
| Routing & Dispatching: How To | [How to: Track-Out](howto_trackout.md) | How To | [:fontawesome-solid-file-pdf:](howto_trackout/howto_trackout.pdf) |

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