Production Orders

Production Orders can be created from a sales order or on their own. If a production order is created on its own, you are making to stock. Stock that has not yet been sold but should be in the future. If you create a production order from a sales order, the sales order may have a CTO recipe on it or a recipe template on it. The production order treats CTO and Recipe Templates the same. Any CTO production order that comes from a sales order will have a special system generated code for its item such as the above one SO512R101. This indicates that the output product code comes from sales order 512. 

Once the production order has been passed or scheduled by the Production Manager the process can then be taken forward with one or multiple production runs.

The production order above has already been posted and a production run has already been created on the production order. You can use multiple production runs or one to fulfil the production order. Once the production order has been closed (output units on order equals the total output units on all runs) the sales order that may be linked to it is marked as complete. This is important for user workflow and reporting. 

The production order above comes from a sales order and is linked to multiple sales invoices that may have been created from the attached sales order or from delivery notes. In all likely hood the invoices were created from the sales order and then the invoices were delivered on multiple deliver notes. A lot of companies like to invoice before they deliver. Should you have one invoice, I would guess that you have created multiple delivery notes from the attached sales order and then invoiced all the delivery notes.

If your production order came from a sales order that auto populated the warehouses on the production order you are able to change the warehouses on the output and input items. You may have created a sales order thinking that you want to produce an output item into one warehouse and using inputs from warehouses of your choice at that time. When you create a production order, you can change your mind and use raw materials from another warehouse and produce the output product to a different warehouse. You can change all of the warehouses (output and input) on the production order which will then inform all of the production runs.

The Price column indicates the cost at which the inputs are entering the production and the cost of the final product leaving the production run. 

Augtool is highly integrated in nature. If you change the warehouses on a production order that came from a sales order, the production order needs to inform the sales order that it can release its holds of items in other warehouses. When reporting on the sales demand of products in Augtool, the system needs to understand where the stock that is in demand lies. Demand for a customer can be created by a sales order or a sales invoice. Should the sales order create a production order, the products have still not been delivered and therefore are still in demand. Changing the warehouses on production greatly affects the demand of items previously created by the sales order in another warehouse.