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Production Order
Production Planning

Production Order

Authorized order to manufacture a specified quantity of an item using defined materials and operations.

Examples

  1. 01A production order for 600 brackets lists the material, the routing with 4 operations and a due date of 12 June.
  2. 02Before a production order is released, the planner checks that steel, tools and capacity are available for the planned week.
  3. 03In the daily meeting, any production order that has not started on its planned day is discussed with a reason and a new start.

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