Canceling And Parking Shop Orders —Extended Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Basic Data Setup

Discrete Manufacturing Overview Racing Engine

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the required data that will be used in the Discrete Manufacturing exercises. This sets up data for your site and needs to be done only once for the Discrete Manufacturing courses exercises.

  1. Set up your site for discrete manufacturing of racing engines.

General exercise for Overview of Discrete Manufacturing Data

Required Data

Shop Orders

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up a manually created shop order with the default information that will be modified in the main exercises below.

Windows:
Shop Order

Note: Record the shop order numbers so that it will be easy to identify the correct shop order for each exercise.

  1. Create one shop order for each of the parts shown on the table below, using the indicated lot size for the shop order. If the status of the shop order is Planned, release the shop order.
Site Part No Part Description Lot Size Shop Order Number Relevant Exercise
Your Site 21-230 Electrical System 5 Cancel a Shop Order
Your Site 21-230 Electrical System 10 Park a Shop Order

General exercise for Creating Shop Orders Manually

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to cancel one shop order and to park another shop order.

Windows:
Shop Order

You are the person responsible for planning shop orders. You want to:

Canceling a Shop Order

You want to cancel a shop order for 5 electrical systems because the 5 electrical systems will not be needed. You want to remove the shop order from the production process.

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for the shop order for this exercise. If you did not record the shop order number, query for your site, part number 21-230 and a quantity of 5. If the status of the shop order is Planned, release the shop order. Record the shop order number, if you have not already recorded.
  2. Right-click anywhere on the header and then click Cancel. If you select one or more shop orders via the Shop Orders window, right click and then click Cancel. The Cancel Shop Order dialog box opens.
  3. In the Cancellation Reason field, enter a cancellation reason or click List to select a valid reason from the List of Values.
  4. Click OK. The order is saved in the Cancelled status.

Note: Shop orders in the Planned, Released, or Reserved status can be canceled.

Enter a Park Reason for a Shop Order

You want to enter a park reasons for a shop order when the shop order is parked.

To perform this activity, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Shop Order Basic Data window and click the Park Reasons tab.
  2. Create a new record or search for an existing one.
  3. In the Park Reason field, enter a new park reason or search for an existing reason.
  4. Select the Include Shop Order as Supply, Include Material Requirements as Demand, Include in Workload Calculations, Enable Revision or Alternate to be Changed check boxes based on the features you need to enable.
    Note: The features selected cannot be edited once a shop order is parked.
  5. Save the changes.

Parking a Shop Order

You want to park a shop order for 10 electrical systems because you do not want work to continue on these electrical systems until some manufacturing decisions are made. You know that you may want work to continue on these electrical systems later.

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for the shop order for this exercise. If you did not record the shop order number, query for your site, part number 21-230 and a quantity of 10. If the status of the shop order is Planned, release the shop order.
  2. Right-click anywhere on the header and then click Park. If you select one or more shop orders via the Shop Orders window, right click and then click Park. The Park Shop Order dialog box opens.
  3. In the Park Reason field, enter a park reason or click List to pick a valid reason from the List of Values.
  4. In the Park Information area, it is possible to enter who/what is responsible to Un-park the shop order.
  5. Click OK. The order is saved in the Parked status.