Release Shop Order
Explanation
This activity is used to release a planned shop order. Once the order is released, you can begin processing it.
If the shop order is created from a shop order requisition, where the shop order requisition type is Material
Requirements Planning (MRP), a check should be performed. If alternate components are used, then you should modify
shop order components to avoid shortage problems.
To release shop order(s) from Shop Order, Shop Orders,
Disposition Shop Order, Shop Orders Materials Availability pages and
Production Line Management/Shop Orders tab, click Status and then
Release.
To release shop order(s) from Material Availability Summary, Machine Load,
Labor Load, Machine Operations Scheduling and Labor Operations
Scheduling charts, select the segment(s) representing the order(s) to release and click
Release.
When releasing a shop order, you can perform an availability check on that order by enabling the Automatic
Availability Check option. This tells the system to perform an availability check on the selected shop order.
(Note that the availability check will occur only if you have met the conditions outlined in the Prerequisites
section below.) If you do not want to perform the availability check, disable this option.
Prerequisites
- This activity requires the existence of a shop order with status Planned.
- To perform an availability check, the value of Auto avail check of shop order must be either
Yes or Allowed on the Parameters for Supply Chain and Manufacturing page.
- If the value is Allowed, then the Availability Check option is editable.
- If the value is Yes, then the Availability Check option is enabled and cannot be
edited.
- If the value is No, then Availability Check option is disabled and cannot be edited.
- The Availability Check option must be enabled in the Supply and Demand Controls
section on the Inventory Part page for the materials in the shop order, in order to perform the availability
check.
- The Expected Lead Time must be defined for the part in the Lead Times and Supply Dates
section on the Inventory Part page.
- If the shop order is connected to a project activity in IFS/Project, the activity must be
released.
System Effects
As a result of this activity:
- The status of the shop order changes to Released.
- If an outside operation is included, the system will release the outside operation, if this was not already
done during the planning of the shop order. This will create an associated purchase requisition or purchase order
depending on the selected value in the Outside Op Supply drop-down on the Shop
Order/Operation tab. Outside operations are not handled for component repair orders (CRO). An external
service order (ESO) is created for any outside work.
- If the shop order is connected to an activity that is not released, a message appears when you attempt to
release the shop order.
- If you perform Next Level Demand planning, a single level material plan will be created. The part planned
will be sourced using make/buy splits and supplier part information to determine the order proposals. If the net
requirement is for a part that is sourced from a multi-site planned internal supplier, then a distribution order
will be created. If the part is sourced from a make/buy split with supplier splits this process would result in
the creation of a combination of outputs in the form of shop requisitions, distribution orders, and purchase
requisitions. Otherwise, the inventory part type and the inventory part supply type will determine the type of
requisition or order to create.
- If planning alerts exist, the Planning Alerts option on the Shop Orders page
will be enabled.
- If MRP has used alternate components, the Alternate Component Used option on the Shop
Orders page will be enabled.
- Note that if the shop order is connected to a project activity, the shop order will begin to report Committed
Cost and Hours to the project, once it has been released. Committed Cost and Hours will be reported through
the project cost element that is based on the posting control type for Work-in-Progress.
- If the shop order has material lines supplied from a DOP order with parts in temporary inventory, the parts
will be automatically reserved to the material line. However, if the parts reserved to DOP temporary inventory
are included on a transport task they will not be delivered until the transport task has been executed.