Create Work Center

Explanation

Use this activity to create and revise a work center. The information you enter is used when you work with operations, shop orders, master scheduling, MRP, and cost estimates.

Once you have created a work center, you can use the Setup Matrix tab to create a setup matrix. See Activity description for Create a Setup Matrix.

For outside work centers, a supplier can be entered, but it is not mandatory. If a supplier is entered for an outside work center, then this supplier will be used when creating Purchase Requisitions or Purchase Orders for outside work centers.

The outside operation report level option is set as a default for outside operations using the outside work center. Updating the values on an outside work center will not change setting on previously created operations and routings using the same work center.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• You must have created a site to which you can connect the work center.
• If you want to use a calendar for the work center other than the site calendar, this calendar must be defined before you create the work center.
• If you want to connect the work center to a production line or department, this information must be registered before you create the work center.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The system creates a new work center.
• When you enter an internal work center, cost sets 1, 2, 3, and 4 are automatically created for it.
• The work center can be linked to a production line.

Window

Work Center

Related Window Descriptions

Work Center

Procedure

1. Open the Work Center window.
2. Click New on the toolbar.
3. Type the short code of the work center in the Work Center combo box. This code can consist of up to five alphanumeric characters.
4. Type a description of the work center in the Description field.
5. In the Site field, specify the site at which the work center is to be used. Use the List of Values to select from available sites.
6. Specify the work center's Queue Time.
7. In the Work Center Code list box, specify whether the work center is internal or outside.
8. In the State list box, specify whether the work center is to be an active, planning or inactive work center.
9. Select a calendar for the work center in the Calendar ID field. Use the List of Values to select from available calendars. The site calendar appears as the default.
10. Type the work center's percentage of use in the Utilization field. The default value is 100 percent.
11. Select a Unit of Measure to be used for the work center's capacity. If the work center's usage code is Active, its unit of measure must be Hours. If its usage code is Planned or Inactive you can use any unit of measure.
12. In the Sched. Capacity list box, specify whether finite or infinite schedule capacity is to be used.
13. Select the suitable value from the Outside Reserve/Backflush option to decide if reserve and/or backflush should be allowed further down in the reserve/backflush hierachy.
14. If you want to link the work center to a production line, type the ID for the production line in the Production Line field in the Detail tab window. Use the List of Values to select from available production lines.
15. Specify the work center's average capacity in the Average Capacity field in the Detail tab window.
16. If you want to link the work center to a department, type the number of the department in the Department field in the Detail tab window. Use the List of Values to select from available departments.
17. Specify the work center's maximum hours per operation and day in the Max Hours Per Operation field in the Detail tab window.
18. If you want to link the work center to a cost center, type the cost center ID in the Cost Center ID field in the Detail tab window. Use the List of Values to select from available cost centers.
19. Save the changes.
20. If the work center code is Outside Work Center, Supplier field will be enabled. Entering a value in the Supplier field is optional. Use the List of Values to select from available suppliers.
21. Enter any additional necessary information in the Cost, Resource, RRP Capacity, Location and Emissions tab windows.
22. Save the changes.