Create Shop Order from Chart

Explanation

Use this activity to create a new shop order for the part record selected in a chart. The shop order will be backward scheduled. The start date is equal to the need date minus the total manufacture time.

Prerequisites

System Effects

As a result of this activity the system creates a new shop order for the selected part. When this happens, the system creates material requirements and schedules operations. It retrieves operations and structures according to the part, structure revision and alternative, and routing revision and alternative that you entered.

The shop order will be created with Revision/Alternate valid for the given supply date and the lot size entered.

Window

N/A

Related Visualization Chart Descriptions

Inventory Part Availability Planning

Related Window Descriptions

Create Supply from Visualizer

Procedure

  1. Open a visualizer enabled window and query for the site needed.
  2. If the Data View is displayed, click Visualization View on the title bar.
  3. Right-click and select Select Visualization. The Select Visualization dialog box appears.
  4. Double-click Inventory Part Availability Planning.
  5. Select one or several segment(s) representing the demand(s) you want to create a supply for.
  6. Right-click, point to Create Supply Order and then click Create Shop Order. The Create Shop Order dialog box appears.
  7. The sum of the demands for the selected segement(s) appears by default in the Supply Quantity field, but can be manually changed.
  8. The earliest due date from the selected demand(s) appears by default in the Due Date field, but can be manually changed.
  9. Click OK.