Production Order Processing

What makes Progression streamlined manufacturing solution special is the different ways it can be used to support your operations and the different sized companies it can accommodate. For very small companies and those running with minimal staff, the entire process of taking a sales order, creating multiple levels of dependent production orders, and recording multilevel completions can be accomplished in only three transactions. Yet, the system can also be used by much larger firms with discrete responsibilities in customer service, materials management, production planning and control. And it is parameter driven to allow tailoring of the system to fit your unique environment.

The key is that Production Order Processing is a flexible manufacturing planning and execution system that supports multiple business environments, company sizes, and types of industry.

Seamless Integration With Other Modules

Progression’s streamlined manufacturing solution integrates your production needs by allowing you to pull a production order from Order Entry (O/E), copy one from Material Requirements Planning (MRP) or enter one manually. If you are not using MRP, you can manually create orders, or consolidate O/E orders using an order advice file that calculates the demand of a manufactured item over a user-defined set of periods. Lower level manufacturing orders can also be created for dependent material using item settings. With POP, you can tie Production to Customer Demand, Inventory Transactions, and General Ledger (G/L) Accounting Entries for inquiry and reporting purposes.

Value-Added Cost Maintenance

POP's Value Added Cost Maintenance File allows you to define numerous cost types to represent value added costs applied during production. These include units of measure, cost per unit of measure, and multiplication factor. These value added costs can then be associated with a manufactured parent. This provides you additional breakdown of costs that have traditionally been posted to a work-in-process (WIP) variance account. This provides further granularity that impacts the reporting of cost of goods sold and cost of expenses within your income statement.

Detailed Production Order Inquiry Capability

POP takes advantage of Progression's extensive drill-down capabilities. The Production Order Inquiry links information about production orders with information related to their source, component makeup, and transaction generation. Several components of this inquiry are also used in other Progression modules. Drill-down push buttons allow you to drill-down and access multi-level standard and captured costs, customer order, reported production, and dependent order information.

Three Options for Processing Orders

You can enter production orders three ways in POP. POP can pull orders from Progression O/E, you can copy orders from MRP, or you can enter orders manually. When you enter orders manually, you specify the quantity and due dates for the item being produced. You can manually create a production order by viewing records in the Production Order Advice File. Simply click on a line item and period in the Production Order Advice File to create a production order.

You can also release and print production orders in one step. A Production Advice Report prints a report showing backorder amounts per manufactured item and optionally provides detailed backorder information per customer order. Use this report to determine item quantities when entering reports manually. Once unreleased production orders are created, the user can generate a Production Order Schedule Report that lists all production orders in start date sequence so that the production planner knows what orders to release and work on each day to ensure timely completion and delivery to the customer. There is also a Visual Scheduler that allows the planner to visually see the load on the shop floor and reschedule production orders to take into account changes in schedule or capacity using drag and drop.

Once units are completed, POP uses a backflush transaction to update raw materials and finished goods inventory. The user can enter additional transactions to account for scrap and excess usage. The POP backflush also includes the Value Added Costs to ensure that these costs are included in the cost of the finished goods.