The Produce / Manager production orders list provides an overview of open production orders. To access it, select Production orders from the main menu on the left.The table covers all data related to production orders, including any active custom fields that you have picked for display in the Column selector. On top of the list, there is a quick filter that allows you to display all orders (which is the default setting) or those that have not been started yet.The All orders option of the quick filter lists all the production orders if there is no column filter set. If, however, any column filter(s) are set, the list will be filtered accordingly. The Not started orders only option displays a list of orders that have none of their operations started yet. Again, any column filter setting also applies.The three columns that may need some explanation are Status (the very last column), Operation status and Priority. We also devote a separate section below to custom fields.StatusYou can check and set the overall status of a production order in the rightmost column. It may have the following values:- The order is waiting for your approval and cannot be seen by operators on the shop floor. It is in Planned status in SAP Business One. This is the default status of production orders. Approving an order (by moving the slider to the right) will release it in SAP Business One and will make it available on the shop floor in the operation list of Produce / Operator.- You have approved the order, thus it is in Released status in SAP Business One and is displayed on the operation list on the shop floor in Produce / Operator. However, no operator has started working on it. You can still unapprove the order by moving the slider to the left.- At least one operator has started working on the production order. The order is visible in Produce / Operator, and it remains in Released status in SAP Business One.- All operations in the production order have been completed. If you press this button, and then the subsequently displayed tick () symbol, the order will be finalized, i.e. pushed to Closed status, with the registered time and material data saved in SAP Business One. It will be taken off the list of production orders. Closed production orders are not listed in Cloud Apps.Operation statusProduce processes production orders by operations, which are the equivalents of the route stages specified in the production orders in SAP Business One. Therefore, to get a production order processed in Produce / Manager or Produce / Operator, it is mandatory to specify at least one route stage in it in SAP Business One.It is not recommended to change or delete a route stage in a production order in SAP Business One after the production order has been released. However, if this is necessary, and transactions have already been entered (i.e. materials and/or resource time have been issued for a route stage=operation), the best practice is to close the production order and create a new one. Transactions are not lost, as they can be viewed in the production order in SAP Business One.The Operation status column shows the progress of each operation in the production order. The circles indicate the following: - Not started - Started (in progress)- Partially completed- CompletedThe Operation status filter shows production orders that contain at least one operation with the selected status.PriorityIn this column, you can check the priority of a production order (based on automatic or manual priority assignment) or change the priority manually. By default, priority is assigned automatically.When using the filter of the Priority column, the system displays production orders with both automatic and manual priority assignments.Automatic priority assignmentThe system automatically sets the priority of each production order to low (), medium () or high () based on the Priority settings. Automatic priority is calculated or recalculated in the following cases:A production order is created.If the Start date or Due  date of the production order is changed.Every night.Manual priority assignmentThe priority of the production order can be changed manually by clicking in the corresponding cell in the table. You can toggle through the priority settings low (), medium () and high () - each represented by the same symbol as their automatic counterparts, but on a colored background.When you click on a cell that is set to manual high priority (), it will push the production order from manual to automatic priority setting, indicated by the symbol which, in a couple of seconds, will be replaced by the symbol of the priority that is automatically calculated for the production order based on the Priority settings in Produce / Manager.Yet another click will switch the order back to manual low () priority, etc.To change the priority of multiple production orders at the same time, select the necessary production orders and click Change priority on the bar displayed on the top. In the drop-down menu select the desired priority.Custom fieldsIf you selected and activated any custom fields in your Produce / Manager settings, those fields are available in the Column chooser in the Production orders list. You can select them for display
.cf0{font-family:Segoe UI;font-size:9pt;}, filtering and sorting as any other, "standard" column.Material availabilityYou can also use the production order list to check if the materials for one or more production orders are available. To do so, select your production order(s) and click the Material availability button on the bar displayed on the top.The Material availability table will be displayed.In the Status column the system shows the availability of the materials as follows:- The total stock level is higher than the planned quantity.- The sum of the total stock and the incoming quantity is higher than the planned quantity.- The sum of the total stock and the incoming quantity is less than the planned quantity.The total number of materials for each status is displayed in the top right-hand corner.The Planned column displays the planned quantity of a material in a production order.
In the Completed column you can see the issued quantity of a material in a specific production order. In the Outgoing and the Incoming columns the system shows the corresponding data retrieved from SAP Business One.Production order detail viewProduction order numbers displayed in the list have a link on them. Clicking on that link will open a detail view of the selected production order.On the left, the detail page contains the following data about the order:status (Not started, In progress, Completed, Closed)processing periodcustomerquantities (planned, completed, remaining, scrap)the content of any active custom fields (indicated by the red frame in the screenshot below).In case there are no active custom fields, the corresponding section is not displayed.On the right, the page provides the same details about each operation contained by the production order. It also shows the resources and materials used for the operation, as well as the transactions associated with it. You can see the percentage of difference between the expected and actual (issued) resource and material usage.If no operation has been started on a production order, you can approve or unapprove the order using the toggle switch in the top right corner of the order detail page.As you register work for an operation, you can see the operation's status and the quantities updated accordingly.When a production order has been fully completed, the   button will become active in the top right corner of the detail screen.After finalization, the page will show that the order has been closed, both by a green banner notification and a red status label in the top right corner of the screen.At this point, the order will disappear from the list of production orders.