In this task your work center supervisors will assign job sequences to workers.
Education:
Shop Control Guide - Assigning Sequences to Workers
Screen Help - Work Center Schedule
Shop Control Screenshot Series
Video - Shop Control Guideline Worker Assignments
Training Task:
•Simulate worker assignment by changing some job sequence statuses from 'Ready' to 'Started'.
Worker Assignment Guideline
Assign job sequences in priority order
Jobs are automatically prioritized in the Work Center Schedule screen based on remaining sequence days relative to required dates. To optimize shop workflow and meet sales order required dates, it is essential that job sequences be assigned to workers in the suggested priority order whenever possible.
Do not change WC capacities to reflect daily deployments
In order for capacity metrics to have comparison value over time, it is vitally important that work center capacity settings – Total Hours / Day, Job Hours / Day, Buffer Days -- stay fixed and only get updated when capacity significantly changes, such as when you add or subtract a shift, machine, or workstation. These settings represent a potential or typical capacity and are not to be used to reflect actual hours being deployed or the existing queue days on any given day.
Give every BOM a routing
Every manufactured item has at least one process, so every BOM must be given a routing. This is essential for product costing, job days calculations, and shop control.
NOTE: This guideline does not apply to ‘Secondary’ and ‘Phantom’ BOM types, which do not have routings.
Common Questions
Can I simplify my jobs by not using routings?
Ignoring routings in the BOM is not a viable or desirable option because it severely limits your overall efficiency potential and increases your workload. Without routings, you must run the shop manually, which is much more difficult than using the formal shop control that is afforded by routings.
Light manufacturing systems do not include work centers and routings and focus solely on BOM components. Without work centers and routings, light systems cannot handle product costing, MRP, or shop control. Routings distinguish DBA from light manufacturing systems and are used for the following purposes:
•Work center hourly rates are applied to process setup hours and cycle times to calculate estimated and actual labor and manufacturing overhead costs.
•Subcontract supplier prices are translated into unit costs to calculate estimated and actual subcontract service costs.
•Routings provide detailed process instructions that print on the shop traveler for production guidance out on the shop floor.
•Routings provide detailed instructions to subcontract service suppliers that print on subcontract POs.
•Routings provide the estimated hours calculations that are used to establish item Job Days settings that drive MRP job generation and the master schedule.
•BOM routing specifications are copied to jobs as jobs get generated by MRP.
•Job routings group job sequences by work center within the Work Center Schedule screen to prioritize worker assignments.
•Job routing specifications are used to calculate estimated remaining job hours for job prioritization and job status metrics.
Can I assign jobs a manual priority?
A manual override to the job priority calculation is not provided nor is it needed. A manual override encourages expediting, which is a destructive practice because it favors expedited jobs at the expense of other jobs, which corrupts the master schedule.
