Route Plan

A route plan indicates which work centres a manufactured item pass through during the manufacturing process. You can enter a lead time (in hours) for each work centre to indicate how much time the item spends in the work centre before moving to the next work centre.

Note: The manufacturing functions don't use the work centres and lead times entered in the route plan. They're not used to calculate costs relating to factory orders.

Options Reference

Each option and field on the form is described below. Mandatory options and fields are highlighted in red.

Code/Description

These fields default to the code and description of the parent item of the bill of material.

This field is read only.

Total lead time

This field displays the total lead time using the lead time hours entered for each work centre in the route plan.

This field is read only.

Details/Work Centre

Select a work centre from the list.

Details/Description

When a work centre is selected, this field defaults to the description of the work centre.

Details/Lead time

Enter the lead time (in hours) of the work centre. This is the amount of time the manufactured item is expected to spend in the work centre before it is ready to move to the next work centre.

Details/Is fixed

Select this option to indicate that the lead time will not vary based on the quantity of the item that is being manufactured.

If you don't select this option, when the total lead time for a factory order is calculated, Greentree Desktop multiplies the lead time hours by the factory order required quantity.