Is it harmful to release jobs without material?
The job release process makes it much easier to manage actual work in process out in the shop. It ensures that all new jobs have sufficient material to get started and that job finish dates are updated to correspond with actual release dates.
Whenever the Job Control Panel screen is launched, a batch process allocates component stock on hand to all open jobs. Material is allocated first to Released status jobs in Planned Start date order and then to New status jobs in Planned Start date order.
It is vitally important that you only release jobs for which material has been fully allocated to all job components. If you ignore the allocation and release a job anyway, the released job “steals” allocated material from non-released jobs and the rescheduling function is compromised.
