Obligate a Manufacturing Order

When you click Obligate in the Manufacturing Order Maintenance (MIM) or Material Usage Maintenance (MUA) program, you can obligate components for a manufacturing order.

Program behavior depends on whether components are controlled, your system options, and/or your program options:

If	Do this
No components are controlled OR You selected Y for the MIM controlled items auto-obligate? option in System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Manufacturing Options) for your manufacturing branch OR You selected A for the Select obligation mode Program option in the Material Usage Maintenance (MUA) program	The program displays the message All components that were not floor stock or special purchases have been obligated Click Close.
A component is controlled and you selected N for the MIM controlled items auto-obligate? option in System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Manufacturing Options) for your manufacturing branch OR You selected M for the Select obligation mode Program option in the Material Usage Maintenance (MUA) program	The program displays the prompt Component [item number] is a controlled item. Would you like the system to auto-select these for you? Click Yes to have the system select the quantity required or click No to select it yourself. If you click No, see Obligate Items.
You selected the Backflush components by operation seq? Manufacturing option (XM) for your branch.	The program displays the message All components that were not floor stock or special purchases have been obligated and you receive the manufacturing order number. However, if you check the Material Usage Maintenance (MUA) program, you will see that the quantity obligated is zero. Obligate is by-passed and occurs with picking as you complete each operation sequence in the WIP Movement (WIPM) program. See Background: WIP Movement.
A component is a bulk movement item and you selected: N for the MIM BMI items manual-obligate? in System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Manufacturing Options) for your manufacturing branch	The program prompts (Bulk movement item - move qty [quantity]) Component [item number ] is a controlled item. Would you like the system to auto-select these for you? Click Yes to have the system select the quantity required or click No to select it yourself. If you click No, see Obligate Items.
Y for the MIM BMI items manual-obligate? in System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Manufacturing Options) for your manufacturing branch	Select the quantity required See Obligate Items.
If the bill of material contains a parent component without a branch record	The program prompts Unable to create mfg order. Some of the components are not stocked in the mfg branch. Use the Branch Item Inquiry (IMBQ) program to make sure that all parent and component items in the bill of material are set up for your branch. If not, run Branch Item Maintenance (IMB) to add items to your branch record.
A component is unavailable	See Obligation Exceptions.
A component is available in consignment inventory	See Move Controlled Consignment Inventory to On Hand.
Consignment component has insufficient quantity on hand AND The System Options Maintenance (Inventory Control Options) (XM) for Auto-pick for consignment items?? is set to N.	The system generates an email to the planner of the work order parent item noting the exception. If the parent item does not have a planner assigned, or if the associated planner does not have an associated email address, the exception is emailed to the address entry for the System Options Maintenance (Manufacturing Options) (XM) for Email for mfg order notification.
One or more components are set up on the bill of material to be picked by operation sequence	Run the WIP Movement (WIPM), Labor Entry (LLE), or Labor Import (LEI) programs to process the operation sequences at which picking occurs.