Job Steps

You can use jobs, also referred to as manufacturing work orders, to track specific manufacturing processes, including labor, material, machines, cost and scrapped, work in process, and finished goods inventory.

Order of Events

You can follow these steps to track your production using jobs. These are general guidelines; there are several methods and sequences in which to use jobs in the system.

Create a Job Order. There are many ways to create a job; typically, you firm a planned order into a job.
NOTE: If you are creating a co-product job order, see Creating a Co-Product Job Order.
Define the job routing and bill of material.
If necessary, create jobs for any subassemblies in the BOM.
Release the job.
Run the Scheduling activity. This activity allows you to generate dispatch lists for the next few days and also fine-tune the job completion dates generated by the MRP or APS Planning activity.
Print the Job Packet.
Create a Job Pick List.
Enter material transactions on the Job Material Transactions form to issue materials to the job. These transactions are posted immediately when you enter them.
NOTE: To minimize the number of transactions to enter, you can set up selected materials to be issued automatically through backflushing. See the Backflushing help topics listed in the "See Also" link for more information.
Enter job operation transactions to record:
- setup, move, and run duration
- pieces completed or scrapped
- materials moved to the next operation
- finished goods moved to inventory
- an operation as being complete
NOTE: Job operation transactions are not posted automatically. However, you can backflush labor and/or machine hours on an operation to be posted automatically.
Post the job operation transactions on the Post Job Transactions form. Any materials you set to backflush on the operations will be posted automatically at this point as well.

Job Steps

Order of Events

Related Topics