Advanced Planning and Scheduling: Process Activity

The following activity will walk you through the process of advanced scheduling production orders.

Process Overview

In this activity, you will do the following:

  1. On the Production Order Maintenance (AM201500) form, you will create a production order to be scheduled.
  2. On the APS Maintenance Process (AM512000) form, you will run the maintenance process of advanced planning and scheduling.
  3. On the Rough Cut Planning (AM501000) form, you will schedule the created production order.
  4. On the Work Center Schedule (AM000001) form, you will view how the system scheduled the production order considering other open production orders.

System Preparation

Before you start making changes to a bill of material by using engineering change control, do the following:

  1. Launch the MYOB Acumatica website, and sign in to a company with the SalesDemo dataset preloaded. You should sign in as the system administrator with the admin username and the password for this user valid for your instance.
  2. Make sure that the Advanced Planning and Scheduling feature in the Manufacturing group of features has been enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
  3. In the info area, in the upper-right corner of the top pane of the MYOB Acumatica screen, make sure that the business date in your system is set to today’s date. For simplicity, in this activity, you will create and process all documents in the system on this business date.

Step 1: Creating a Production Order

To create a production order to be scheduled, do the following:

  1. On the Production Order Maintenance (AM201500) form, add a new record.
    Tip: To open the form for creating a new record, type the form ID in the Search box, and on the Search form, point at the form title and click New right of the title.
  2. In the Inventory ID box of the Summary area, select MGWIDGET.
  3. In the Qty. to Produce box on the General tab, enter 5.
  4. On the form toolbar, click Save.
  5. Memorize or write down the number in the Production Nbr. box. You will need this value in the following steps.

Step 2: Performing APS Maintenance

To update work center schedule and clean up history before running scheduling, do the following:

  1. Open the APS Maintenance Process (AM512000) form.
  2. In the Selection area, select the following check boxes:
    • Update Work Center Schedule from Calendar
    • Cleanup History
  3. On the form toolbar, click Process. Wait till the system performs maintenance. On the Process History tab, the system updates the dates and usernames in the Work Center Schedule and History Cleanup sections.

Step 3: Scheduling the Production Orders

To schedule the production order, do the following:

  1. Open the Rough Cut Planning (AM501000) form.
  2. Make sure that the Release Orders check box in the Selection area is cleared.
  3. Make sure that the Exclude Planning Orders and Exclude Firm Orders check boxes in the Selection area are selected.
  4. Schedule the production order you created earlier in this activity as follows:
    1. Select the check box in the unlabeled column of the row for the production order.
    2. Make sure that Schedule is selected in the Action box of the Selection area.
    3. On the form toolbar, click Process.

      The system opens the Processing dialog box and runs the process of the production order scheduling.

    4. Close the Processing dialog box.

Step 4: Viewing Work Center Schedule

To review the schedule of work centers where the MGWIDGET will be produced, do the following:

  1. Open the Work Center Schedule (AM000001) form.
  2. In the Selection area, select the following:
    • Order Type: RO
    • Production Nbr.: The number of the production order you created earlier in this activity.

    In the table, the system displays only rows related to the selected production order.

  3. Notice that in the row for the WC10 work center, the system scheduled 5 blocks (30 minutes each) and specified the start and end time of the operation.
  4. Notice that in the row for the WC100 work center, the system scheduled 3 blocks (30 minutes each) and specified the start and end time of the operation

You have scheduled the created production order by using advanced planning and scheduling.