Labor Requirements Generation

Labor requirements are generated through one of three conversations:

·     Manufacturing Order Maintenance (Inventory Control)

-    When a planned order created by the Requirements Planning module is firmed or released.

-    When adding an open or firm order.

·     Manufacturing Order Release (Inventory Control)

-    When a planned or firm order is opened.

·     Labor Requirements Maintenance (Shop Floor Control)

-    When generating the standard labor requirements for an order.

Labor requirements are created from the routing that was defined for the part by the Manufacturing Engineering module.  The labor requirements generation program copies this routing information (from the Routing File) and creates labor requirements records for the order (on the Labor Requirements File).

The user may choose to copy not only the primary routing records, but also any comments or alternate routings for the part on the Routing File.  Refer to Exhibits A and B, immediately following this appendix, for an illustration of the types of records on the Routing and Labor Requirements Files.

Alternate operations remain "inactive" for scheduling and reporting purposes until the user activates them through the Labor Requirements Maintenance conversation.  Two options are available for activation:

·     For a primary operation, the user may choose to activate all the alternate operations, or may select only specific alternates for activation.

·     A set of alternate operations may replace all the primary operations.

When an alternate is activated, the primary operation that it replaces is automatically deleted from the Labor Requirements File.  The validation is the same as that applied to manual maintenance of the Routing File.  Once a primary operation has been replaced, it is deleted from the Labor Requirements File and cannot be reestablished.

The generation process selects only routings that are in effect on the order start date.  If a start date is not supplied for an order, it is calculated using the order due date and the lead time, which is held on the Part Master Record for the parent part.