Create an Outside Service Operation

When you click Operations in the Routing Maintenance (RTM) program and select an outside service operation type, you enter and change details about work you send out.

  1. Enter data in these fields:

    Note
    A number of the displayed fields are not active for outside service operations.

Field Name

Type / Max Length

Action / Description

Operation code

Required
4 alphanumeric

Accept the displayed code or change the code if the new code is the same type as the original code (P = outside service).

Work center no

Display only

Defaults to Vendor for outside services

Vendor number

Required
10 alphanumeric

Accept the displayed vendor number, enter a different vendor, or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the vendor from a list.

Oper desc 1 - 4

Optional
20 alphanumeric per line

Accept the displayed description of this operation or enter a one- to four-line text description of the process performed in this operation. This description prints on the shop paper.

Note
When a PO is created for an outside operation the first line of the description entered here is the purchase order line description.

Cost per piece

Optional
14 numeric in the format 999999999.99999

Enter the cost that the vendor charges to perform this operation.

Manufacturing cost reporting programs use this field to calculate the standard cost for this purchased service and receiving programs use it as a default cost for a purchased service.

Std/Alt oper

Required
1 alphanumeric

Select S if this operation is standard or select A if you expect to use it occasionally.  

Click Chg oper in the Manufacturing Order Maintenance (MIM) program when you release an order to select an alternate operation in addition to or in place of a standard operation. You have the option to recalculate standard labor cost based on the alternate operations you select.

Alternatively, click Alternate in the WIP Movement (WIPM) program. This method adds the selected alternate operations to actual labor cost but does not recalculate standard labor cost.

Move time

Optional
7 numeric in the format 99999.99

Enter the number of days needed for the manufacturing order to be ready for the next operation. For outside services, this is the total time that elapses from shipping the work to the vendor to receiving the completed work back from the vendor.

Release Outside Services (WOS) calculates the purchase order date wanted and date promised as the system date plus the number of days you enter. If do not enter a move time (i.e., it is zero), wanted and promised dates default to one day after the PO is released.

Capacity planning, priority dispatch and the Accumulated Lead Time Calculation (MLT) program use this field.

Send ahead qty

Optional
10 numeric in the format 9999999999

Enter the quantity that you can send ahead to the next operation, splitting lots into a smaller quantity in order to begin the next operation before completing the current operation.

Capacity planning programs use send ahead quantity when calculating load.

  1. Choose the appropriate options:

To

Do This

Change a field

Move the cursor to the field and make changes. Click Apply to accept changes or click Cancel to reject changes.

Delete a saved record

Click Delete. See Delete.

Enter notes for this operation

Click Notes. See Enter Notes.

Go to a related program

Click Jump. See Jump.

Display the standard purchased service operation

Click Std operation. See Create a Standard Purchased Service Operation. Click OK to return to this program.

Associate a tool with this operation

Click Tools. See Associate a Tool with an Operation Sequence.

Display changes to this operation

Click Audit.. See Display an Audit Trail. Click OK to return to this program.

Note
The Audit button displays if audit trail logging for the Routing Operation Detail (RTGD) file is activate.

Accept the data

Click OK. The program prompts Operation seq no. Enter another sequence or leave blank to exit.