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Start Production Order#

🔒 ProductionOrder.Start

Overview#

This operation starts a Production Order by creating as many Materials as required, according to the minimum and maximum Material size defined for the Production Order Product and the Production Order Quantity. The operation will also compute the BOM requirements and will create as many Materials as required for each BOM item, provided that the property Include In Scheduling for those Products is set to true. The BOM Explosion is performed recursively. The Production Order will be set to the state Released after this transaction is executed.

Note

If there is a BOM of scope Materials associated to a Material that has characteristics, the system will only display BOM Products that have the same characteristics defined for the selected Material.

Setup#

A Default Type and Default Form must both be defined for the Product of the Production Order to be started, as well as for any sub-component Products. It is also possible to specify the maximum material per Product and to define BOMs for the Product along the Flow.

Info

When Order Management is used, Due Dates are set at the Material level. If you do not want this behavior, you can use the following configuration /Cmf/System/Configuration/OrderManagement/ProductionOrderStart/IgnoreMaterialDueDate (defaults to false).

Preconditions#

  • The Production Order must be active and in the state Created.
  • The Production Order must have the property Include in Planning set to true.

Sequence of Steps#

  1. Optionally, review the Production Order details by expanding the Production Order section.

  2. Choose whether to activate the BOM explosion, recursively starting also Materials for the sub-components according to the BOMs defined for the Production Order Product standard Flow.

    Note

    For the BOM explosion, the system considers the following Assembly Types: Explicit, Explicit Long Running, Automatic At Track In, Automatic At Track Out, Packing, Weigh and Dispense and Mixed.

  3. If the Product has the Include In Schedule set as true, Scheduling Mode is Production Order and the Production Order has the Include In Planning = true, choose whether to perform a synchronization of the Production Order Steps through which this Production Order will be fulfilled. For more information, see Synchronize Production Order Steps.

  4. Select Start to complete the transaction.

Start Production Order

Note

When in planning mode, the default Flow Path starts from the Production Order instead of from the Product.