Production orders (form)

Article
05/05/2014

Applies To: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Feature Pack, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Click Production control > Common > Production orders > All production orders. Select a production order. On the Action Pane, on the Production order tab, in the Maintain group, click Edit.

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Click Project management and accounting > Common > Item tasks > Project production orders. Select a production order. On the Action Pane, on the Production order tab, in the Maintain group, click Edit.

Use this form to view, change, or create new production orders. Production orders are requests to start manufacturing an item. All information associated with the item to be produced is contained in the production order. This includes information from the bill of material (BOM), operations resources, routes, and operations.

Production orders are generated by the system when you specify a quantity in the Item form. You can also generate a production order directly from the Master planning module, the Project management and accounting, or from a Sales order line.

Tasks that use this form

Create production orders manually

Navigating the form

The following links and tables provide descriptions for the controls in this form.

The tabs and controls that were added to this form for the Warehouse management features in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 are not described in this topic. For information about these features, see Warehouse management.

Tabs

Tab	Description
General tab	View or modify identification and production information, status, scheduling dates, and production pool groupings for the selected production orders.
Setup tab	Define the criteria that you want to use to process the production order. These include the date that the BOM becomes effective, the route number on which the production is based, production scheduling information, the method for posting the order to the ledger, and the measurement factors of the item being produced. You can view all related productions. This includes the number of the top-level production that the production order is a component of and the alphanumeric identifier of the planned order. All fields are read-only.
References	View references to other modules in Microsoft Dynamics AX for the selected production order.
Update	View the latest updates to the current production order. All fields are read-only.
Financial dimensions	View information about financial dimensions, such as the default dimensions and where the dimensions are used in account structures and advanced rule structures.
Inventory dimensions	View information about inventory dimensions, such as the configuration and physical location.

Buttons

Button	Description
Split	Split the selected production order into two or more production orders. For more information, see Split (form).
Estimate	Run an estimate of how much the selected production order will consume in material and capacity costs. For more information, see Production - Estimation (class form).
Release	Release the selected production order to the shop floor. For more information, see Production - Release (class form).
Start	Send the selected production order into production on the shop floor. For more information, see Production - Start (class form).
Report as finished	Report all, or a part of, the selected production order as finished. For more information, see Production - Report as finished (class form).
End	Finish the selected production order and change its status to Ended.
Log	Access functions that are required to update the status of the production order. These functions include estimation, operations scheduling, job scheduling, release, start, reported as finished, and end. Updates follow the sequential flow in the life cycle of the production order. You can also access the price calculation, the production log, and the reset status functions.
Reset status	Reset the status of the selected production order to an earlier status. For more information, see Production - Reset status (class form).
Inventory button group	Access submenus to view inventory information related to production: Transactions, On-hand, Lot, Serial numbers, and Marking.
BOM	Update the bill of material for the item being produced. Changes can be made to the specified fields as required.
Route	Update production routes for the item being produced. Changes can be made to the specified fields as required.
All jobs	Obtain an overview of all jobs associated with the production. Related tabs in the Jobs form, General and Scheduling, contain read-only fields that display system-generated information about the production jobs.
Schedule operations	Create and run an operations schedule for the selected production order.
Schedule jobs	Create and run a job schedule for the selected production order.
View button group	Use the Gantt chart to view your production orders graphically. Production orders are grouped by resources. Note If the Gantt chart button is not available, make sure that the scheduling status is not set to Operations scheduling on the General tab.
Dimensions	Select the dimensions that you want to display.
Net requirements	View information about the net requirements for the selected production order. This includes, for example, product dimensions and the current coverage settings. Also included is each requirement that is calculated and the resulting projected inventory levels.
Explosion	View the requirements explosion for the selected production order.
Multilevel pegging	View information about upstream and downstream multilevel pegging.
Non conformances	Create, change, or view items that do not comply with the predefined performance, or with the quality standards specified for the selected production order.
Quality orders	View or specify test results, and test for items on the selected production order.
Related information button group	View and make inquiries about the results of production calculations, for example, price calculation, route transactions, reference list, capacity reservations, net requirements, BOM explosions, explosion tree, and production posting.
Journals button group	Open a selection of journals used to report material and time consumption, in addition to productions reported as finished. These journals are directly linked to the ledger system because posting to them involves posting to the ledger.

Fields

Field	Description
Production	Displays the unique identification of the production order. When new production orders are created, the number is either allocated by the system or entered manually. For more information, see the Create production order (form).
Item number	Displays a unique identification of the item that will be produced. This field cannot be changed. The item to produce is defined when production is set up. For more information, see the Create production order (form).
Name	Displays the descriptive name of the item that will be produced. You can change the name.
Type	The possible production types are as follows: Standard – The production does not have a specific attachment to an order, another production or vendor, or a planned order. Vendor – The production is produced by a vendor, and the production order is attached to another production. You can find a reference to the production order in the Reference type and the Reference number fields.
Quantity	Displays the scheduled production quantity.
Delivery	Displays the desired delivery or finish date for the production. You can use the delivery date in the production's operations or for job scheduling, where the scheduling can be selected backward from delivery date. If you perform operations scheduling or job scheduling for a production order that has automatic creation of underproductions defined in the bill of material, the delivery date for the underproductions is set to the date when the items will be used in the production. The underproduction will then have operations scheduled backward from the delivery date. Note If a production order is created from a sales order, the Delivery is set to the Ship date of the order line.
Time	The delivery time.
Color	The color that is used in the Gantt chart if the color is defined in the color setup.
Status	Shows where the production order is in the overall production cycle. The system updates the production status every time an update or scheduling is run on a production order. The order of production status is as follows: Created, Estimated, Planned, Released, Started, Reported as finished, and Ended.
Scheduling status	Displays the scheduling status of the production: Operations scheduling – The least detailed of the two types of scheduling available in the production system. Operations scheduling is frequently used when you want a rough estimate of the duration of the production process. Note To enable the Gantt button, the scheduling status must not be set to Operations scheduling. Job scheduling – The more detailed of the two scheduling types available in the production system. For more information, see Jobs (form).
Remain status	Displays the remainder status of the production order.
Quality order status	Displays the status of the related quality orders.
Pool	Production pools are used to group productions with similar characteristics, for example, the type of item to be produced or the person who created the production orders.
Production group	Each production can be attached to a production group. The production group can control posting of item consumption, items in process, and operations resource consumption and resources in process. The group can also be used as a limit in reports. You can select a group from the created production groups. If you want to use productions groups without any accounting consequences, you should use production pools instead. For more information, see Production groups (form) and Production pools (form)
Start date	The scheduled start date.
End date	The scheduled end date.
Start time	The scheduled start time.
End time	The scheduled end time.
BOM date	Controls the bill of material (BOM) version that is active for the item when the production order is created. You can define which lines are to be copied from the current BOM version through this date.
BOM number	Indicates which BOM has been used as the basis for the production order. There may be several versions of a BOM item, but for each production order, there is always only one BOM that is current and used as the basis for the production order.
Reservation	Specifies how to perform automatic reservation for the component items identified by the BOM lines. The value is proposed on the BOM lines, but can be changed individually for each line. The reservation is made the first time a production order is cost estimated.
Route number	The route used when you create a production.
Jobs	Select this check box to check whether route jobs been generated for the production.
Check route	Select this check box to test the route.
Property	Type or select a code for the item characteristics created in the Properties form.
Locked	Select this check box to lock the production for re-scheduling.
Priority	The production priority. The larger the number, the higher the priority.
Ledger	Shows how the production order is posted in the ledger, for both items and work in process, and also to the costing of the production order. The field can be changed for productions if the Status is earlier than Reported as finished. The field can also be specified by using the Create production order (form). Select from the following options: Item and resource – Post item consumption according to the settings in the Item group (form). Operations resource consumption posting is based on the value in the Resources (form) and the Resource groups (form). Item and category – Post item consumption according to the settings in the Item group (form). Operations resource consumption posting is based on the value in the Cost categories (form). Production groups – Post item consumption and operations resource consumption according to settings in the Production groups (form).
Profit-setting	Displays the profit setting that was used, or that will be used, to calculate a sales price for the production order The price is calculated when doing estimating and cost accounting.
Height	The measurement conversion factor for the height dimension.
Width	The factor for the measurement dimension width.
Depth	The measurement conversion factor for the depth dimension.
Density	The measurement conversion factor for the density dimension.
Reference type	Displays connections to other modules. This includes the item reference type of the production. If the production is created to an order line, the Sales order is displayed. If the production is created for a purchase or a project, the Purchase order or Project is displayed. If there is a reference to another production, the Production is displayed. You cannot change this value.
Reference number	Displays the number of the sales order, purchase order, or production from which the production is derived. If there are no connections, the field is blank. You cannot change this field.
Reference lot	Displays the numbers of the reference lot and the item lot to which the production belongs. The item to be produced goes into inventory and from there, into the lot that is specified here. It is not relevant that the item does not physically reach the inventory.
Reference production	If the production is included directly in another production, this field displays the number of the main production. The level of this production in the production hierarchy is displayed in the Reference level field. If no references exist, the current production number is displayed. If the production has a connection to another production, the field displays the level of the production relative to the main production. For example, if the level of the main production is zero, the derived productions are at level 1, level 2, and so on. If there are no references to other productions, the value is 0.
Reference level	When this field is marked, references to subordinate levels are also estimated. Therefore, a change can affect the attached references. Subordinate levels indicate derived productions. This means that their level number is later than that of the current production. You will find more information about production levels on the Reference level tab.
Master plan	Identification of the plan.
Number	This field, together with the Master plan field, contains the reference system for the master scheduling proposal. If the production was derived from the Item requirement statistics (form), the field will contain the number of the planned order that generated the production. If the field is blank, no reference exists for the planned order. The field cannot be edited.
Original production	The original production that the current split production is based on.
Created date and time	The date and time when the record was created.
Estimated	The latest date when the production order was estimated.
Quantity	This field appears next to the Estimated field, and displays the quantity that cost estimation is based on. This quantity can differ from the quantity that has been planned, started, or reported as finished.
Scheduled	The last scheduled date.
Started	Displays the date when the start of a production order occurred.
Quantity	This field appears next to the Started field, and displays the start quantity. The start quantity is updated automatically with the quantity that is started.
Reported as finished	The date when the production order was reported as finished.
Quantity	This field appears next to the Reported as finished field, and displays the quantity that was reported as finished at the Reported as finished date.
Ended	Displays the date when the production order status was updated to End.
Quantity	This field appears next to the Ended field, and displays the quantity that was completed at the Ended date.
Lot ID	Displays the number of the lot that the production is attached to. You cannot change the lot ID.
Dimension No.	Shows the identification of the item's dimensions.
Direction	The scheduling direction that was used last.
Scheduling date	The most recent date that scheduling was performed.
Scheduling time	The most recent time that scheduling was performed.
Report remainder as finished	The quantity remaining to be reported as finished.
Configuration	Shows the item configuration. The item configuration specifies specific attributes for the item.
Size	Specifies the size of the item.
Color	Specifies the color of the item.
Site	The identification of the site where the warehouse is located.
Warehouse	The identification of the warehouse where the items are stored.
Batch number	Enter the batch number dimension. If you select Edit lines and Explode lines in the upper section of the Shipment or Receive form, you can change the batch number for the transfer order line.
Location	The location inside a warehouse. If you select Edit lines and Explode lines in the upper section of the Shipment or Receive form, you can change the location number for the transfer order line.
Pallet ID	The unique ID for the pallet (Serial Shipping Container Code).
Serial number	Displays the serial number dimension. If you select Edit lines and Explode lines in the upper section of the Shipment or Receive form, you can change the serial number for the transfer order line.
Department	You can define department, cost center and purpose on a production order. If production order dimensions exist, they are automatically transferred to the route. However, if the production order dimension fields are left blank, dimensions will default from the operations resource used.
Cost center	You can define department, cost center, and purpose on a production order. If production order dimensions exist, they are automatically transferred to the route. However, if the production order dimension fields are left blank, dimensions will default from the operations resource used.
Purpose	You can define department, cost center, and purpose on a production order. If production order dimensions exist, they are automatically transferred to the route. However, if the production order dimension fields are left blank, dimensions will default from the operations resource used.