The Production Order Processing module gives users the ability to control production in a quick-turn environment. POP integrates production needs and allows entry from a variety of sources - Pull from Order Entry, copy from the MRP manufacturing module, and manual entry. If MRP is not in use, Production orders can be manually created using an order advice file that calculates the demand of a manufactured item over a user-defined set of periods and displays the needs for each period.
Users can click on a line and create production orders automatically for each item and period.
Production orders can be created in unreleased status. Unreleased production orders created from all sources are displayed and can be released in one screen. Production reporting can be performed for each dependent order at the dependent order level, or performed at the parent item level and cascade down through the captured bill of production. Linked inquiry screens display all important information related to a production order, including customer order information, multi-level standard and captured costs, reported production, inventory transactions, and dependent orders. Users can specifically assign and calculate a value added cost per parent item so the total difference between the standard cost of the parent and sum of the standard costs of the components is not forced into the WIP variance account when production is reported.