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Start Material Creation#

Overview#

When a Production Order is started physically, it is required to track the physical units in the line.

Concept#

In order to create/start the Materials of the Production Order, the user should go to the ProductionOrders List and select the ProductionOrder.

The user should see the button "Start Materials" (requires a feature)

This button will open the wizard and prompt the user with some information regarding the Production Order. When the user finishes the wizard it will create a Material based on the the information of the Production Order or fallback to the Product information.

When Materials are started for a Production Order there will be different modes, that will be defined at the Product level:

  • Creation – The system generates a Material, the batch, that represents the quantity to be produced.
  • Reassignment – The system expects Materials that exist in stock to be provided upon reassignment, either:
    • Manually - by the operator
    • By automation - given by the API that performs the reassignment

Preconditions

  • The Product must have the attribute MaterialStartMode set
  • The ProductionOrder or the Product must have the FlowPath set
  • The ProductionOrder must have the Facility set

Administration#

To use this feature, the config /SMT/StartMaterialsForProductionOrder/IsEnabled/ must be enabled. The user will also need to have the SMT.StartMaterialsForProductionOrder feature in order to access the wizard.