Advanced Production Control

Advanced Production Control - Order status

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All production orders: Order status

Update order status

Production control > Periodic > Production order status update > Update order status

The production order field Order status is updated for all production orders except for ended orders. This batch job is typically setup to run 1x per hour depending on the rhythm of the production. It traverses all actual production orders and batch orders (for formula items) and determines the current order status.

Use the field "Order status" for setting up other batch jobs like production order Release and start to automate the administrative process.

Order status on list page All production orders

Production control > Production orders > All production orders

Production control > Production orders > Delayed production orders

Production control > Production orders > Productions scheduled

Production control > Production orders > Productions started

Production control > Production orders > Productions released

In the ribbon tab Production order, group Production details, select a set of production orders and press Update status to retrieve relevant actual information from various sources.

Or set up a batch job (e.g. 1x per hour) in Production control > Periodic > Production order status update > Update order status

Field	Description	Remark
Delayed	Checkmark that indicates that the delivery date is not possible: the countdown hours is less than the remaining time to finish	Action required on material supply, working hours or committed due dates

Order status	Icon and text to indicate the status of the production order
- Asterisk	- Created	Production order is created manually. Remember to estimate beforer the MRP run, otherwise material demand is not taken into account
- Red X	- Material shortage	Material shortage for production order that is on critical path. Remaining lead time > countdown hours and not all physical materials are reserved. Go to Production BOM
- Red diamond	- Delayed	Replaced by a checkmark Delayed
- Yellow triangle	- Warning	One or more components expected late
- Green block	- Ready to release	All materials are available

- Grey block	- Wait for warehouse	Production order is in a warehouse wave, raw material picking not started
- Forklift	- Picking materials	Raw material picking in progress
- Green circle	- Ready to start	All materials are picked
- Black circle	- Ready to subcontract	Delivery note can be printed upon Start
- Arrow →	- Started	Production order has started
- Share \|↗	- Subcontracted	First not-finished operation is type Vendor and operation has started

- Yellow !

- Not reserved materials

Production order has started but some materials are not reserved. Go to production BOM

- Person + document

- Invoice expected

Production order is reported as finished but one or more purchase lines for components or services do not have status Invoiced yet. Do not end the production order if actual costing is used

- Checkmark	- Finished	Production order is reported as finished. If all materials and hours are posted the production order can be ended
- Checkmark in circle	- Completed	Production order is ended and there are no purchase order lines for which an invoice is expected
Allocated	Allocated against on hand or pegged supply (dynamic plan)	All physical materials for this production order and its sub-production orders (multi-level) are allocated in the dynamic plan against on hand or pegged supply
Reserved	All physical materials in the production BOM are reserved	Best practice is to reserve all materials before releasing the production order. If materials are reserved upon release or start, check that all materials are allocated by dynamic plan
Picked	Raw material pick work ready and line stock at resource was auto-picked
Countdown	Number of hours to deadline (rounded down)	The production order must be completed in n hours. See calculation logic below.

Resource

Current resource

Resource on which the dynamic plan scheduled the current operation

Tab Production order

The Print Production order report button is added to the list page. This report with BOM and routing information for the current production order or batch order can be printed at any moment in the process.

Tab Warehouse

Button Wave and work:

Displays all wave lines for the raw materials production order, incl. the wave and wave status.
Displays all work lines incl. location, work status and target LP for:
- raw material picking
- finished goods put away
- co-/by products put away
- cross docking
- sales order lines related to this production order
- transfer order shipment lines related to this production order

Button License plate labels:

Displays all labels for this production order:
- raw material pick labels
- finished goods put away labels
- co-/by product put away labels

Form Production BOM

Production control > Production orders > All production orders > Ribbon tab Production order > BOM

In the form Production BOM, new columns are added for a quick overview which materials are physically reserved, and if there is a confirmed receipt date on the reference purchase order line. This data is refreshed when Update status is executed on the list page All production orders.

Field	Description	Remark
Location	Location (can be switched on with Inventory > Display dimensions)	The location can be defaulted from the production inventory status setup

Inventory status

Inventory status (can be switched on with Inventory > Display dimensions)

The inventory status can be defaulted from the production inventory status setup table

Allocated

All open transactions are allocated by the dynamic plan

When reservation is auto-executed upon Release or Start: it is desirable that materials are allocated from on hand stock to this production order before the production order is released or started.

Reserved

All materials are physical reserved

When reservation is manual, or auto-executed upon Estimation or Scheduling: it is desirable that materials are reserved before the production order is released or started.

Confirmed

Confirmed receipt date on the purchase order line

There must be a direct reference from the production BOM line to the purchase order line. The reference is created upon Estimation when BOM line type = Vendor, or can be set by the master planning when the coverage group has type requirement.

Form Current operations

Production control > Operations > Current operations

Production control > Operations > Current operations for batch orders

In the form Current operations, the factbox Operation material displays a grid of the materials (standard Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations displays only the first material).

The button Update status recalculates the status of all current operations.

The button Quality orders opens the quality orders for the selected operation.

Additional columns

Field

Description

Remark

Operation status

Icon and text to indicate the status of the production order operation

Red: action required

Yellow: attention required

Green: ready for next step

Grey: in progress

- Red X	- Waiting
- Red diamond	- Delayed	Operation scheduled end time has passed
- Yellow triangle	- Delay warning	Operation will probably not be finished in time
- Green circle	- Operation ready to start	All operations for this production order with a lower number are finished
- Right arrow →	- Operation started
- Checkmark	- Operation finished	Only visible if the form is filtered incl. Reported as finished

- Half star

- Quality order

Open or rejected quality exists

Calculation logic Count down hours

The calculation of the Countdown hours depends on the demand order that is supplied by this production order:

If a reference to sales order line exists:

Prio 1: dock appointment time of the load
Prio 2: scheduled ship date and time of the load
Prio 3: confirmed ship date and time* of the sales order line
Prio 4: requested ship date and time* of the sales order line

*) start time for calculating delays according to MRP parameter

If a reference to a main production order exists (socalled pegged supply by a sub production order):

Countdown hours of the main production order minus lead time hours of the main production order

If no reference to a sales order line or production order exists:

Production order delivery date and time

The remaining leadtime is calculated as the summarized setup and process times of the primary operations, and are always rounded up to full hours.

The countdown is always rounded down to full hours, based on 24 hours per day.

The countdown sequence is not necessarily equal to the scheduling sequence, because the scheduling takes into account resource capacity, and production order due date at the time of creation, but ignores any changes on the sales order ship date after the production order was created.

Use the countdown as an indication and sorting sequence which of the production orders need to be finished first.

The countdown is on the safe side, as long as the status is updated recently (e.g. every hour).

Examples:

If the unrounded countdown is negative, a delay checkmark is visible
If the unrounded leadtime is 3:05 and the unrounded countdown is 4:55, both are rounded to 4 hours. This production order is on the critical path, and a delay checkmark is visible.
If the unrounded leadtime is 3:05 and the unrounded countdown is 5:05, the production is not on the critical path.