In Production Planning and Control, Engineering information is translated into activities for actually accomplishing the work.
Production Planning and Control receives the engineering information in the form of engineering releases. The engineering release contains engineering release line items, or lines, which identify the drawings, bills of material, and other data that are being released. Some of the release line items, or lines, require routings to be created. This is done in Production Planning and Control.
Features:
Creates shop work orders from the planning work order(s)
Purchases the item or items on the planning work order(s)
Designates that the planning work order(s) is covered on another engineering release
Designates that the planning work order(s) will be superseded by a another release (such as design engineering errors)
Substitutes an alternate item
Combines the planning work order with an existing work order
