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Junhua Internal Training: A Brief Discussion on U9 Production Orders

Category: Company News, News Date: 2022-11-30 Reading volume: 36

Introduction:As the old saying goes, “a thousand threads end at one end”. Since the launch of U9 on September 1, under the leadership of Project Director Mr. Li and Project Manager Mr. Liu, and under the careful guidance of the UFIDA project team, all Junhua colleagues have worked diligently, pooled their wisdom and strength, and forged ahead. The U9 project is gradually getting on the right track! Looking back on the past, my thoughts are ups and downs, and I have a lot of feelings!

The production module, as a new module, is challenging in terms of the complexity and size of its basic data. As a new module, there are many things we need to learn, and production orders are a very important one. Whether production orders can be done well and executed well directly determines the operation quality of the production module, and is also related to the related businesses of other modules such as sales, procurement, and finance. Therefore, I have specially summarized the production orders, hoping to help colleagues understand production orders.

1. What is a production order

Production Order: Also known as manufacturing order or work order, it mainly contains information about material, production quantity, planned start and completion date, etc., providing a basis for workshop production. Production management uses production orders as a basis to balance the production capacity of various production departments, ensure material preparation, and promptly resolve abnormal situations to control production progress.

There are a few points to note when preparing a production order:1. Production orders are not only placed for finished products, but also for semi-finished products and even homemade raw materials;

2. During the manufacturing process, products undergo different tasks and undergo more than one processing step. For these different processing steps, we do not need to place a separate production order for each step. Instead, we can regard these steps as a process route of a production order.

There is no need to divide production orders too finely, otherwise too much energy will be spent on compiling material files, material lists, process routes and records required for production control, but no obvious improvement in efficiency will be achieved.

2. What types of production orders do we have

Our production orders are generally classified as follows:1. Standard production order

Processing production order: Applicable to ordinary self-made machined parts products, which must have a bill of materials and process route;R&D processing production order: Applicable to the R&D of machined parts and products, which must have a bill of materials and process route;

Semi-finished product production order: Applicable to homemade products such as ordinary granulation, extrusion, molding, etc., which must have a bill of materials but no process route;

R&D semi-finished product production order: Applicable to the R&D of homemade products such as granulation, extrusion, and molding. There must be a bill of materials but no process route.

The normal processing flow includes creating production orders, reviewing production orders, issuing production orders, picking materials for production, declaring commencement and completion, and completing production orders.

2. Rework/remanufacturing ordersA special business type that is suitable for handling defects that need to be reworked when the process or order is completed. It can be divided into:

Rework production order: The materials used in the rework production order are the defective production materials themselves, and the material numbers are the same before and after rework.Reformed production order: The materials used in the reformed production order are other materials, and the material numbers before and after the reform are different.

3. Production Order Preparation Process

1. Prepare production ordersThere are three methods for preparing production orders: planned order release, order generation and manual order generation.

Planned order release : Run LRP order and the production order generated after release;Generate by pulling orders : Applicable to situations where there are sales orders. Manually pull sales orders to generate production orders;

Manual production order : Applicable to the situation of no source documents, such as inventory orders, R&D orders without source, etc., and the production order is filled out manually.

Fill in the source document information, quantity, planned start date, planned completion date and other information in sequence. It should be noted that appropriate order margins must be given based on the product yield. For non-conventional products, the tail numbers need to be reduced as much as possible while ensuring the order volume.

2. Material preparation inspection

Check the material preparation information to confirm whether the material preparation quantity is accurate. If the material preparation quantity is confirmed to be incorrect, modify the actual required quantity and feedback to the BOM specialist, who will adjust the bill of materials;Confirm whether the available inventory is sufficient. If it is not sufficient, if the spare parts are self-made, you need to place a production order for the spare parts and repeat the “prepare production order-material check” action until the spare parts are in sufficient inventory or purchased; if the spare parts are purchased and the inventory is insufficient, place a purchase order to purchase them.

3. Process inspectionCheck the process information. If it is confirmed that the process route is incorrect, modify the process route and feedback to the process engineer, who will adjust the process route.

4. Production order reviewAfter confirmation, submit it and it will be reviewed by the reviewer.

5. Production order is issuedFor processing production orders, print “Process Flow Card”; for semi-finished product production orders, print “Material Preparation Notice”. Send it to the corresponding workshop to guide the workshop production.

4. Production Order Status

There are five common statuses for production orders, namely, Open, Approving, Approved, Started, and Completed. Their meanings are as follows:

Open: The status of a document that has been saved but not submitted;Approving: The status of a document that has been saved, submitted, but not reviewed;

Approved: The status of a document that has been saved, submitted, reviewed, but not started;

Start work: save, submit, review, and start work but not complete the document status;

Completion: The status of a document that has been saved, submitted, reviewed, started and completed.

5. Changes to production orders

Production order change means that after a production order is generated, the production order needs to be modified due to changes in customer delivery dates or workshop capacity issues. There are two ways to modify it: direct modification and order change.The data type of the production order is set to “Can be modified after approval” (this is the prerequisite for “Approved” and “Started” to be modified).

1. The direct modification method of production order is applicable in the following situations:

Production orders with status “Opened” or “Under Approval”; Production orders with a status of “Approved”;

Production orders with status “Start”.

2. The production orders with the status of “Approved” and “Started” are explained as follows:

The following contents cannot be modified in the order header: document type, order number, production department, salesperson, material, BOM production purpose; the following contents can be modified in the order header: production quantity, planned start date, planned completion date, etc. It should be noted that when modifying the quantity of an order with a status of “start”, the modified quantity must not be less than the quantity that has been started; In the material preparation information, materials that have not been picked up can be changed, but materials that have been picked up cannot be changed;

In the production order process, if the process feedback has been done, it cannot be changed, but if the process feedback has not been done, it can be changed;

In the production order output, you can only add new output, and cannot modify the existing output information;

Production order notes can be modified.

6. The Importance of Tracking Production Orders

“Three parts preparation, seven parts control”, the issuance of an order is not the end, but the beginning of production. It is necessary to do a good job of tracking the execution of production orders. Tracking is not the end, but the beginning. Only by constantly “tracking – discovering abnormalities – eliminating abnormalities” can we ensure that production is carried out efficiently and steadily.

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