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.

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. See Creating a Job Order.

There are many ways to create a job; typically, you firm a planned order into a job.

If you are creating a co-product job order or a co-job order, see Creating a Co-Product Job Order or the topic on Creating a Co-job Order.
Define the job routing and bill of materia. See Creating Routings and Bills of Material.
If necessary, create jobs for any subassemblies in the BOM. See Creating Sub-Jobs.
Release the job. See Releasing a Job.

At this point for co-job orders, a batch definition is created automatically and referenced back to the job operation.
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. See Printing the Job Packet.
Create a job pick list. See Creating 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. For more information, see the Backflushing help topics listed in the Related Topics below.
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.