Background: Picking Confirmation
Use the Picking Confirmation (MPK) program to pick all components required for a manufacturing order, partially pick component sets, and change manufacturing order information. When you click Component, you can add a component to a manufacturing order, change component quantities, pick selected components, substitute components, and close a component short. See Road Map for work flow.
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Comparison with Secured Picking (SMPK)
Picking Confirmation is similar to the Secured Picking (SMPK) program. Use Secured Picking if you do not want the operator to:
Modify fields on a shipment header.
Delete a shipment.
Reverse confirmation to be able to modify the quantity picked after confirmation.
Picking Confirmation allows the operator to perform these tasks.
Obligation
Obligation assigns specific components and raw materials to a manufacturing order. You cannot create a shipment and confirm picking until the components have been obligated.
If the Picking Confirmation program displays the message No new lines were obligated to be shipped, components must be obligated. Click Component, select a component, and click Obligate.
Pick Complete
If you want to pick all components required for a manufacturing order, you first need to create a shipment of components and raw material from inventory to the shop floor. To do this with Picking Confirmation, enter NEW for the Shipment number. The program displays a message with the shipment number. If this is the first shipment, the number is 001.
When you click Confirm, the program updates inventory. Confirmation changes the on-hand, obligated, and committed quantities for the components picked.
Partial Picking
You may not be able to make the entire quantity ordered in the current week or you may not have room on the shop floor for all those components. You can pick the components required to build a quantity of the parent item.
Suppose the manufacturing order is for a quantity 100. When you click Partial for the Include all material not currently on a shipment and obligated through [date] prompt, the program prompts you to enter a quantity. Enter the number of sets of components you want to pick. If you enter 25, the system creates a shipment for the components needed to build 25 parent items. When you click Confirm, you pick 25 sets of components.
Pick Selected Components
You may want to pick one or more components so that you can start work on a manufacturing order.
Click the Component button on the first screen to display the components for the order. You can obligate one or more components. Then click the Pick button, which creates a shipment and picks all obligated components.
You can over-pick a component when necessary. You can also under-pick and then close the component. You can also select a substitute for a component if you do not have enough supply or want to use another component in place of the one on the bill of material.
Change Quantities after Confirmation
If you need to change the quantity of a component after you confirm picking, you must first click Reverse to reverse confirmation. When you click Reverse, the status of the order changes from Picked to In picking. The components are still obligated but not picked. After you change a quantity, click Confirm to pick the new quantity.
You can change the quantity of a component, over-pick, or under-pick even if you have partially received the manufacturing order. However, you cannot change the quantity after you run the Manufacturing Order Picking Register (MPKJ), which updates the general ledger.
Delete a Shipment
If you encounter a problem with confirming a shipment, you may need to delete the shipment and start over. For example, the program may display a message that some lines do not match obligated quantities. When you delete a shipment, the program un-obligates the components on that shipment. You need to re-obligate them and create a new shipment.
Print Shop Paper
If you selected S for the Shop paper release time option for your manufacturing branch in the System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Manufacturing Options) and set up the Document Output Parameters Maintenance (TDOC) program, shop paper prints when you create a shipment with this program. If you selected O for the system option, shop paper should already be printed.
If you selected Y for the Print new orders immediately? field in the Document Output Parameters Maintenance program, shop paper prints on the output device you selected in that program. If you selected Q for that field, run the Shop Paper Print Queue Maintenance (MSPPM) program to process the print queue.
You can run the Shop Paper Print (MSP) program to print or reprint shop paper for a specific manufacturing order. Alternatively, you can click Shop paper in the Manufacturing Order Maintenance (MIM) program at any time to output or queue shop paper for the displayed order.
Audit Trail
To activate an audit trail, select one of the files listed below in the Audit Trail Maintenance (XAT) program. The system records all transactions. You can then run the Audit Trails (ATR) program and select that file to print a report of these transactions.
MP9: Mfg Order Components
O1S: Shipment Header
O1SB: Shipment Addresses
O1SL: Shipment Lines