Production Order on Hold

[former_member588587]

Hi All,

I need to know how is it possible to put a production order on hold. Basically at present there are few MTO production orders, which are needed to be put on hold, and all the respective requisitions that have been generated must also be deleted.

I have tried to TECO the production orders concerned, but when I reran the MRP the system generated new planned orders to replace those TECO'd production orders. Do I also need to make any changes in the schedule line of the sales order? How am I supposed to go about this issue. I am not sure if this is right way.

Could someone please guide me on this issue.

Regards,

G. Coelho

[Former Member]

Hi,

Not sure if i have understood your query, but check if the below meets your need.

Set the status as locked, i.e. LKD. menu path > Functions - restrict processing - lock.

Regards,

Vivek

[former_member588587]

Setting the status to lock does not temporarily delete the requirements of that production order. I was wondering if there was a hold status to temporarily delete all the MRP requirements, until the lock has been revoked.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Cant figure out your business need, as i find it not normal. Anyways you can flag the FI indicator for each component & once you want demand to be active again, then uncheck the indicator.

Another thought, if this is not required to be processed, then why not just delete the order & create it when it is needed ?

Regards,

Vivek

[former_member588587]

ok let me explain the business requirement very clearly. A customer has asked to manufacture a component A which has a BOM with components B, C, D. So the sales guy raises a MTO order for component A.

Now MRP runs and, planned orders and purchase requisitions are generated for the bom components. In our current business scenario, if the requirement is for 5 pieces of component A, there must be 5 planned orders generated. Now we begin, the part of converting the planned orders to production orders. And procurement also begins at around the same time. But now half way through production customer for some reason does not want the goods at the moment, but after a very long time. So the production has to stop prematurely. Simultaneously even the procurement for these BoM components must come to hold.

I was wondering if there was a way to put the production order on hold, and somehow MRP could delete the requisitions that were created for the production of component A, until further notice.

Because right now we have many such orders that have come to hold, and a lot of such requisitions that needs to be handled.

[Former Member]

Hi,

In this case, you reverse out any confirmations posted & components issued to these orders if any done. Then set deletion flag to these orders.

If there is no postings done, then it is more easier to set the deletion flag. Now remove the demand for A if there is any which exists. Once you get the demand again at a later date, then it should be business as usual.

Hope it clarifies.

Regards,

Vivek

[Former Member]

Godwin,

To add to Vivek's answer, if the customer does not want his product until far into the future, I would think that Sales would ALSO want to change the Sales docs to reflect that fact, eg change the First date of the sales order items to reflect the true date that the customer actually wants the product. Once this is done, your standard exception report would tell you which production orders and purchase reqs/orders need to be managed.

Rgds,

DB49

Edited by: Dogboy49 on Jan 28, 2010 8:44 AM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Just a wild thought.

Eventhough, you have made TECO, during next planning run, it's creating planned order.

Is it correct to deactivate the planning file entry for this material in MD21/MD22?

I am sorry, if I am wrong.

Madhava