Maintain Components of a Manufacturing Order

Use the Material Usage Maintenance (MUA) program to add a component to a manufacturing order, change component quantities, pick selected components, substitute components, and close open components. See Background and Road Map for more information.

The program displays the manufacturing branch and prompts for Mfg order no.

  1. Enter the manufacturing order number or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the manufacturing order from a list.

If the Skip MUA header maintenance? Program option is set for your user ID, See Add or Change a Component on a Manufacturing Order. If the option is not set, the program displays information about the manufacturing order:

Field Name

Displays

Mfg order no

The manufacturing order you selected followed by its status and whether or not the bill of material is approved:

Open

No components have been picked

Printed

Shop paper has been printed or queued for printing

In process

Some components have been picked to the order

Partial

Some have been received into on-hand inventory

Pending close

The order quantity has been received but has not been received to stock with the Receiving and Inspection (IRI) program.

If Process excess/short components is R (set in System Options Maintenance - Manufacturing Options), the order may be received to stock but its status still Pending close because not all components have been picked.

Complete

The order quantity has been received into on-hand inventory

Closed by user

User clicked Close order in the Manufacturing Maintenance (MIM) program

Closed by rcv

Received less than quantity ordered and clicked Close order? in the Receiver Maintenance (IRC) program

Parent item no

The number of the item ordered followed by its description

Qty ordered

The quantity of this item ordered

Qty received

The quantity that has been received with the Receiver Maintenance (IRC) program

Qty rejected

The quantity of this parent item rejected during inspection

Qty stocked

The quantity of this parent item that has been received into inventory

ECL

The engineering change level for the parent item

RRL

The routing revision level for the parent item

Firm

A check mark indicates that the order is firm; it cannot be rescheduled or cancelled

Priority

The priority management assigned to this manufacturing order

Inspection?

A check mark indicates the item must be inspected after it is received

Order type

R Regular order
P Repair order
W Rework order

Demand order type

The order type of the demand order

Demand order no

The first demand order associated with this manufacturing order

If the order number is a sales order, the customer name is displayed.

Due date

The date this order is due or the revised due date

Reason date chgd

The reason the due date changed

Added by

The user who made the change

Date released

The date this order was released

Original due date

The original due date for this manufacturing order, which you can compare to the current due date

Start date

The date work is scheduled to begin on this order

Date picked

The date that components were picked for this order

Date completed

The date that the finished goods were received into inventory or the order was closed short

Last activity date

The date this order was last worked on

Last picking no

The number of the last picking

Sales order demand

The sales order associated with this manufacturing order

S/O line

The sales order line number associated with this manufacturing order

  1. Choose the appropriate options:

To

To This

Enter notes for the order

Click Notes. See Enter Notes.

Enter or change data in custom fields your company uses

Click User. See Enter Data in User Fields and Shadow File Fields.
This button displays only if you have set up user fields for this program in the User Fields Maintenance (XMO) program.

Go to a related program.

Click Jump. See Jump.

Display changes made to this order

Click Audit to display changes in the order header. See Display an Audit Trail. Click OK after you view the audit trail to return to this program.

Note

Audit trail logging must be activated.

Review, add, pick, change, substitute, or close components

Click Component. See Add or Change Manufacturing Order  Components.

Display work in process information for this order

Click WIP status. See Display Work in Process Information. Click OK to return to this program.

Display component requirements for this manufacturing order and current supplies of these components

Click Comp req. See Display Component Requirements. Click OK to return to this program.

Display the supply order for this manufacturing order

Click Supply. See Display the Supply Order. Click OK to return to this program.

This button is available only when the order has an associated supply order.

Display the linked demand order

Click Show demand. See Display the Demand Order. Click OK to return to this program.

This button is available only if a demand order exists and you selected the Link mfg orders to demand in MIM? option in System Options Maintenance (XM) program (Manufacturing Options).

Display serial or lot control numbers on an order and other transactions for those numbers

Click Ctrl info. See Controlled Item Tracking or Display Pre-Assigned Control Numbers. Click OK to return to this program.

This button is active only when there are items on the order with control numbers.

Display receivers for this manufacturing order

Click Receiver. See Display Receivers for Orders. Click OK to return to this program.

This button is available only when receivers exist for the order.

Display disposition of rejected material

Click MRB. See Display Rejected Items. Click OK to return to this program.

This button displays only when rejected items exist for the order.

Display the return material authorization for a repair order

Click View RMA. See Display an RMA. Click OK to return to this program.

This button displays only when a repair manufacturing order was created from a return material authorization.

Display the parent item's ECOs

Click ECO. See Display ECOs By Item. Click OK to return to this program.

The ECO button is active if there is an engineering change order for the item.

Obligate all available components

Click Obligate. If any components are have control numbers, the program offers to auto-select them.

View or import documents associated with the manufacturing order

Click Documents.

  • Click View to view archived and imported documents, See Display Document Archive. The View button is active only if archived documents are available.

  • Click Import to import a document.

See Document Archiving and Document Import for more information.

Specify a different manufacturing order

Click OK.

Exit the program

Click Exit.