What is a work order in Production Scheduling?

Article code: PSHDA03
Tags: Work Order, Terms, Definitions

Answer

A work order in Production Scheduling represents a contract that you have with your customer to produce an item for a specific quantity by a specific date. For example, you would create a work order to document an agreement between you and your customer that you will produce 10,000 units of a finished good item by the end of the month. Another common name for work orders could be projects. 

In Production Scheduling, you will typically use work orders to do the following:

• Plan how many hours and how many workers are needed to complete production for each work order
• Create a production schedule to meet the deadline of all work orders
• Edit the production schedule to include unplanned downtime or interruptions that occur during production that take workers away from the production line
• Communicate and share the production schedule with other workers at the facility
• Schedule workers to complete production for each work order
• Review the status of work orders every day to ensure work orders are completed on time

Before you can start using Production Scheduling to create your production schedule, you will need to load work orders. Depending on the plan you have with Nulogy, there are two different methods to load work orders to Production Scheduling:

• Import data via CSV Imports
• Sync data via integration with Nulogy’s Operational Solution (please refer to this article if you are using both Nulogy Operational Solution and Nulogy Production Scheduling)
  

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