---
alias: user-guide-production-order-index
description: "Production Orders manage material flow, tracking quantities and states within a manufacturing process"
---

# Production Order

:lock: ProductionOrder.**Show**

## Overview

A **Production Order** represents a demand which is materialized through one or several **Materials**. The system will keep track of all Production Order Materials, their quantities and their state (*InProgress, Completed and Delivered*)

!!! info
	Order Management is a Critical Manufacturing optional module

A **Production Order** can be made restricted. A restricted **Production Order** cannot have **Materials** removed from or assigned to (with the exception of Split and Expand Material, which in effect keep the new Materials in the same **Production Order**).

A **Production Order** object keeps track of the following quantities - which are automatically adjusted to take into consideration unit changes - based on the Materials currently associated with it.

* In Progress Quantity
* Completed Quantity
* Delivered Quantity

A **Material** is considered *Completed* when it reaches a **Step** that has the option *Marks Product Completion* set to true. However, if the **Material** has a **Production Order** associated to it, the **Material** must have the same **Product** and *Units* as those defined in the **Production Order**.

A **Material** is considered *Delivered* when it is shipped to a remote or local **Facility** that has the *Terminate on Ship to This Facility* option set to true.

```mermaid
graph LR
subgraph Material In Progress
    A1[Step X]
end
subgraph Material Completed
    A2["Step Y<br><br><em>Marks Product Completion</em>"]
end
subgraph Material Delivered
    A3["Facility F<br><br><em>Remote<br>or<br>Local with automatic termination</em>"]
end
    A1 -->|Move Next| A2
    A2 -->|Ship|A3


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class Main1,Main2 mermaid_entity
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```

A **Production Order** can be closed if the completed quantity is greater or equal to the **Production Order** quantity and it is less or equal to (1 + over-delivery tolerance) and it does not contain any **Material** which is *InProgress*. A **Production Order** which is *Closed* cannot have its **Product** or quantity changed, and no **Materials** can be assigned or removed from it. All **Materials** associated with a *Closed* **Production Order** cannot have the **Product**, the quantity, the units (given by **Step**) or the Is Production Complete property (given by the **Step**) changed.

If required by Scheduling or other restrictions, namely for **Production Orders** that take a long time until completion, a **Production Order** can be split into a number of Production Order Steps, dividing the **Production Order** quantity into as many steps as required to fulfill the current **Flow** where the **Material** is placed, with a fraction of the **Material** quantity being placed in each of the **Production Order** Steps. As an example, a **Production Order** with remaining quantity equal to 100 units, bound to a specific **Flow** with seven **Steps**, where the first **Step** has a the Production Order Step Size property set to 20, can be divided into `100 / 20 = 5` Production Order Steps, each of them with seven different **Steps**.

## State Model

All **Production Orders** in the system follow the state model below.

```mermaid
graph TD
    Start1 -.->|Unterminate| A1[Created]
    A1 -->|Release| A2[Released]
    A2 -->|Unrelease| A1
    A2 --->|<em>Automatic</em>| N1[In Progress]
    N1 --->|<em>Automatic</em>| N2[Completed]
    Start2 -..->|Unterminate| N1
    Start3 -..->|Unterminate| N2
    N2 ---> N1
    A2 --->|Cancel| A6[Canceled]
    N1 --->|Cancel| A6[Canceled]
    N2 --->|Cancel| A6[Canceled]
    N2 --->|Close| A5[Closed]
    A5 --->|Reopen| N2

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class Start1,Start2,Start3 mermaid_start
class A1,A2,N1,N2 mermaid_initial_state
class A5,A6 mermaid_final_state
```

## Tying Everything Together

```mermaid
graph LR
    A1[Product] --- Main[Production Order]
    A2[Roles] -.- Main
    A3[Facility] -.- Main
    A4[Material] --- Main
    Main === L1[Production Order Material]
    L1 --- A4

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class A1,A2,A3,A4,A5,A6,A7,A8,A9,A10 mermaid_businessdata
class L1,L2,L3,L4,L5,L6 mermaid_entitylinked
class C1,C2,C3,C4,C5,C6 mermaid_context
class N1,N2,N3,N4,N5,N6 mermaid_nonbusinessdata

click Main "../../business-data/production-order"
click A1 "../../business-data/product"
click A2 "../../administration/security/roles"
click A3 "../../business-data/facility"
click A4 "../../business-data/material"
click L1 "../../business-data/material"
```

## Sequence Of Steps

The necessary steps for correctly using a **Production Order** are the following:

1. Mark the necessary **Steps**  with the *Marks Product Completion* property set to true.
2. Create the **Production Order**.
3. Assign **Materials** to the **Production Order**, or Create **Materials** for the **Production Order** or Change **Material Production Orders**.

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