Production Order

Represents a planned or active manufacturing order.

The Production Order business object represents a planned or active manufacturing order. It provides a central place to track the item being produced, quantity, production status, schedule, location, production lines, and notes.

Description

Use the Production Order object to plan and manage manufacturing work for a specific item. It can connect the order to an Item and Location, track the planned production period and actual finish date, define the quantity to produce, and maintain related production order lines.

Included Fields

Production Order

  • Production Order ID
  • Status
  • Quantity

Item

  • Item Reference
  • Description

Location

  • Location Reference
  • Location

Schedule

  • Planned Start to Planned Finish
  • Actual Finish

Production

  • Production Order Line

Other

  • Notes

Common Uses

  • Production Planning: Create manufacturing orders for specific items and quantities.
  • Production Scheduling: Track planned production start and finish dates.
  • Manufacturing Tracking: Monitor production orders through drafted, scheduled, approved, in progress, produced, and delivered states.
  • Location Management: Associate production work with a specific location.
  • Production Detail: Maintain individual Production Order Line records for the order.

Related Business Objects

Inventory

Operations

Documents

Included Features

  • Automatic Production Order ID generation
  • Production status tracking
  • Item reference
  • Item description lookup from the referenced Item
  • Location reference
  • Location lookup from the referenced Location
  • Planned production timeline
  • Actual finish date tracking
  • Production quantity tracking
  • Production Order Line attachments
  • Rich text notes