Job Orders

A job order is a manufacturing order for making a quantity of an item on your shop floor. Job orders usually originate from "planned orders," which the system generates in response to a demand such as a customer order or forecast when you run the MRP Planning or APS Planning activity, Material Planner Workbench, or the MPS Processor. You create a job order by "firming" a planned order, or you can create a job order manually on this form. In either case, you can then use this form to adjust, launch, and monitor the job order.

The form includes these tabs:

• Use the References tab to view or change information about the customer order, estimate, or parent job to which this job is linked.
• Use the Scheduling tab to view or change the following information:
  • Last date on which a material transaction or a job transaction has been posted to this job
  • Other related scheduling information
• Use the Cost Detail tab to split your work-in-process (WIP) account into various cost components. This functionality allows you to identify the components involved in the total cost of a product. The system uses the following cost components:
  • Material
  • Labor
  • Fixed overhead
  • Variable overhead
  • Outside services
• Use the Co-products tab to maintain a co-product job order.

The Actions menu includes these options:

• Use the Go to Demand Detail Chart APS option to display a graphical representation of how the system uses supplies, on-hand inventory, and resource capacity to satisfy the demand at each level of the bill of material.
• Use the Generate Document option to open the Infor CPQ Document Automation interface, where you can generate configurable documents.
• Use the Remove Config Hold option to indicate that the configuration for an job is no longer on hold. This option is enabled only when the Config Hold check box is selected for the job.
• Use the Post Configuration Status utility to process those post configuration records with a status of not completed.

The Actions menu also includes options to filter the data to show only jobs where the start date is 7, 14 or 30 days in the future, and an option to show only jobs where the start date is any number of days in the past.