Hi Shahjahan,
The Manufacturing Workflow is a fairly complicated and complex process. Most organizations want to retain control over which job to load onto which machines and don’t want to give away that control to the ERP system.
Does an ERP make a single workorder for the entire sales order? Or does it make multiple workorders for each operation? How does it allocate the operation to a workstation, especially when multiple workstations can perform an operation and a workstation can perform multiple operations?
Different organizations have different approaches and standard operating procedures.
I’m curious to know how SAP, Oracle ERP, Infor, Netsuite, Dynamics and the other big guys manage this process. Would people that have familiarity with these packages post here? Or if there is enough traction we can start a separate thread for this discussion.
Shahjahan: Sorry for the diversion, but your best bet is to leave it to the shopfloor the discretion of loading jobs on machines. Use a Job Card for the shopfloor to record this information during the flow of material through various operations and workstations and then finally capture this in a single stock entry and multiple stock entries.
I know it’s not a great answer, but check out Rohit’s initiative here: [Proposal] Manufacturing Roadmap Apr - Jun 2020 and try and influence him to incorporate what you’re looking for.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Jay