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alternate ways of closing WO's?
04/26/04 at 06:43:53
 
I'm wondering what ways there are to close work orders?  I do see enter finished production.  This appears to be too time consuming for us.  We have a number of small parts that make quite a few sub assemblies.  For all of them to have work orders and use "Enter finished production" would take some time.  Are the other ways?  Maybe enter a range of work orders and have labor close the work order?  Or better yet, have the entry of the last operation with the appropriate qty completed on the work order close the work order?
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Re: alternate ways of closing WO's?
Reply #1 - 04/26/04 at 07:29:20
 
You have to do Enter Finished Production to get the parts into stock so they can be issued to the next level work order.  You could use the IS Tech Batch Finished Production to process a group of work orders and if the WO Default is set to close the WO at Enter FP, then they will also be closed.  How are you issuing the materials to the work orders?  That is another step you need to do to have everything flow correctly.  If you have a lot of components and subassemblies, then backflushing and Batch FP is probably the best approach.
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Reply #2 - 04/26/04 at 08:12:10
 
We are issuing materials thorugh labor.  Every item that is used is tied to an operation on the WO.  That seems to work ok.  It would be nice if the qty reported done on the last operation on the WO would close the WO and enter those items in stock....
 
Is there a demo of the program you mentioned above I can look at?
 
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Reply #3 - 04/26/04 at 17:26:40
 
It is part of the standard IS Tech updates you can get for $35/month.  
 
It simply allows you to enter a list of work order numbers and completed quantities and then click process and it does the Enter Finished Production and if the quantity complete equals or exceeds the Work Order quantity and your defaults are set to close WO in Enter FP, it also closes the work order.
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Reply #4 - 05/13/04 at 05:30:00
 
That is nice but not exactly what I'm looking for.  When the last operation, and if all operations are done, can't the WO be closed and entered into finished production basied on the reported parts from the last operation?  We have about 40 WO's closing a day and it would be time consuming to lookup and type in each.  Yes, not too time consuming... but all I would be doing is running a report as to the status, printing it, then just reading and typing the informtion from the report that came from Evo anyway.
 
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Reply #5 - 05/13/04 at 06:37:00
 
The program could be modified to do that but that is not the way it currently works.  If you are either collecting labor through Data Collection or entering time sheets in WO-M then it would be a change to the labor posting program but there are a "ripple effects" to consider.
 
In its simplest form, when posting labor, if an operation is the last operation on a Work Order routing, automatically enter finished production for that quantity.  Once the quantity complete for that last operation meets or exceeds the work order quantity, close the work order.
 
However, the batch of labor entries being posted or the open/unposted labor file may also include entries for the same work order but an earlier operation - you can't close the work order until all labor is posted nor will the Enter Finished Production costing be accurate if prior operation labor hasn't been posted.
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Reply #6 - 05/13/04 at 09:51:53
 
I do see what you mean for most companies.  However, here we will not have that problem for the most part.  We have work orders that only one person works on, and when done they are not started by anyone else.  
 
In WO-F there is a option to specify is the sequence is complete.  This could then see that all sequences are complete and enter finished prod?  I'll use the compiler you sent me and try to come up with something.  
 
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