We have an issue whereby job cards are raised for parts that are set to arrive back from the factory for a service before being shipped back out again. The first department on the job card tends to be in Inspection where all the parts will eventually be run to as soon as they arrive back at the factory.
However, as soon as the job card is raised the part shows as āCurrentā on the Production Management Screen for the department despite it not physically being run into the area yet.
Is there a way to create job cards and then āhideā them so that they can be released only when the parts have physically arrived into the factory?
wellā¦ this is a tricky question. The answer may be just as tricky.
only jobs that are released will show
the first operation is always ācurrentā work when the job is released
Soā¦ there are a few options:
Donāt release the job until all the materials are available. This method does workā¦
ORā¦ add one extra operation at the beginning of the job. The operation is āmaterial validationā or something like that. Then you CAN release the job, but it will sit in the validation operation as ācurrentā until someone marks the op as complete.
@bordway But what if we want to unrelease a single operation and not the whole job. As some of the operations in our job are independent of each other.
As far as I know releasing the job will apply to all the ops.
Might be a pain butā¦ wonder if you could rework your methods?
Break out problem ops like this - separate as bub jobs - demand type āmake to jobā. Give you more control over releasing to mfg?
