Automatically Generate Work Orders

You can create new work orders, as needed, in response to open sales orders, inventory reorder information, projections, or manual work order changes. The Auto Generate Work Orders task uses information from MRP Generation to create the work order and then increase a firm-planned work order's planned quantity, if the demand from the sales order is increased.

Auto Generate Work Orders updates all firm-planned work orders based on the appropriate lead times and changes in the number of items and with the default Cost Completion Method in Work Order Setup Options. MRP assumes infinite capacity in the work centers.

Before You Begin

Every active bill of material must have an attached routing, or a work order cannot be generated for that item.
To avoid making work orders too far into the future, set the demand sources and cutoff dates in MRP Generation to be just slightly more than normal lead/build time. If the Pull In Work Orders or Push Out Work Orders check box is selected in the MRP Options window, when the MRP Generation process runs, work orders completed to inventory, and sales orders are rescheduled, if necessary.
If changes have been made in MRP Options or in other modules integrated with MRP, or if data has been added since the last MRP Generation, MRP Generation should be performed before using Auto Generate Work Orders.

To automatically generate work orders

Select Material Requirements Planning Main menu > Auto Generate Work Orders.
In the Next Work Order Number field, enter the next work order number to use. For more information, see Auto Generate Work Orders - Fields.
Make any desired changes for the work orders in the appropriate fields. The default values for the fields in this window are entered in MRP Options, but can be changed in this window.
Click Print to print an Auto Generate Work Orders Register.
After the Auto Generate Work Orders Register prints, a message appears asking if you want to update the Auto Generate Work Orders Register. Click Yes to update the register.

The work orders listed in the register are created, deleted, or modified.