A manufacturing shop order is an electronic document that authorizes the manufacture of a specified part. A manufacturing shop order can also produce by-products, and may result in substitute parts, i.e. the receipt of another than the intended part number. When you enter a shop order, the system creates material requirements and schedules operations. The system retrieves operations and materials according to the part, valid manufacturing structure/routing revision and selected alternate. The alternate may also be fetched based on the lot size, or the serial number that you entered.
A manufacturing shop order can be created manually, or from shop order requisition, DOP, batch balancing, customer order, project deliverable and Kanban.
The status code shows where the shop order is in the manufacturing process. It also controls what you can do with the shop order. You cannot manually change a shop order's status. The system does this automatically in response to actions performed on the shop order. When you enter a new shop order, the system sets its status automatically to either Planned or Released depending on the setting on the Site/Manufacturing page.
The following table summarizes the shop order status codes:
| Status | Description |
| Planned | A low-status shop order, e.g., an order for a part that you have planned but have not yet made the final decision to manufacture. You cannot reserve material or report operations for an order with this status. |
| Parked | A shop order that has been blocked and cannot/should not be further processed until the cause has been resolved. Depending on the park reason the order can release its reservations, load, supply and demand allocations. Unparking the order will set back the status to the same as before it was parked. |
| Released | A shop order that has been released for production. |
| Reserved | A shop order with at least one reserved material line, but no issued material, or reported operations. |
| Started | A shop order with issued material and/or reported operations. |
| Closed | A shop order that has been completed. No additional quantity can be reported or received unless it is re-opened. |
| Cancelled | A shop order that cannot be further processed. Cannot be re-opened. |