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A work ticket contains instructions, material requirements, hours and cost budgets, and scheduling activities used to create an item. Detailed costs for labor, materials, miscellaneous charges, purchases, and Accounts Payable invoices can also be tracked in a work ticket.
Work tickets are broken down into logical sequences called steps. Steps can be used to identify a task necessary to produce a product, or to identify an outside process performed by a vendor.
Parent items generally refers to an item manufactured for inventory. The cost of the parent item is the sum of costs of the non-chargeable work ticket materials, labor, and direct costs applied to the work ticket.
Work Ticket Transactions
There are multiple ways to enter transactions against a work ticket. In Work Ticket Transaction Entry, you can enter the following transaction types:
- Completion transactions record the completion of all or part of the work ticket's finished product.
- Closing transactions record the completion of all or part of the work ticket's finished product and to close the work ticket.
- Materials transactions record the issue of inventory or miscellaneous items used in the production of the finished good. This method requires printing a register to update the transaction so that it is reflected in the work ticket and inventory.
- Labor transactions record the labor hours expended on a work ticket.
Transactions can also be entered in the following ways:
- In Work Ticket Entry, you can change a work ticket's material quantity used. This creates a transaction record in the work ticket, and an additional transaction record is written to the Daily Material Usage Register.
- In Labor Entry, you can record labor hours, identify the employee or crew, enter comments on work performed, enter the parent item's quantity completed on a step, and change the status code for a step. If the Production Management module is integrated with Payroll, you can also use these records when processing payroll.
- If the Production Management module is integrated with Accounts Payable, you can distribute direct costs to work tickets in A/P Invoice Data Entry and Manual Check and Payment Entry.
- Each time a step's status is changed, a status change record is created.
