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Production Orders

A read-only list in Manufacturing → Production. The records are written by the work that produces them; this screen is where you read them, narrow them and take them somewhere else.

Where to find it

Module: Manufacturing
Group: Make
Section: Production
Screen: Production Orders

Address in the console: /mfg/production-orders

Read-only list · 10 columns · 7 actions

This list is read-only: its records are written by the work that produces them. A correction, where one is possible at all, is made where the record was created.

What the list shows

These are the columns of the list, in the order they are drawn. Any of them can be sorted on, filtered on, hidden, or exported.

Column	Kind	Field name
Order	Code	`order_no`
Item	Code	`item_no`
Product	Text	`item_name`
Qty	Number	`quantity`
Done	Number	`qty_completed`
Due	Date	`due_date`
Pri	Number	`priority`
Pegged to	Code	`source_demand`
Cost center	Code	`cost_center_code`
Status	Status	`status`

What can be corrected

The fields offered when an existing record is edited. Whether the button appears at all is decided per record — see What may be changed.

Field	Type	Choices	Notes
Due date	Date
Priority (1 = highest)	Number
Quantity	Number
Demand reference	Text
Notes	Long text

What you can do here

New production order primary

On the toolbar, above the list.

Asks for: Finished item (needs an active BOM)* Quantity* Due date Priority (1 = highest) Demand reference (e.g. OPP-000002)

Cancel

On each row of the list. Offered only on records where it applies.

Cancel this document

Asks for: Reason*

Availability

On each row of the list.

Release

On each row of the list. Offered only on records where it applies.

Asks for: Shortage override reason (optional)

Issue materials

On each row of the list. Offered only on records where it applies.

Asks for confirmation: Pull BOM components from inventory (FEFO) into WIP?

Complete primary

On each row of the list. Offered only on records where it applies.

Receives finished goods, relieves WIP, and opens a quality inspection.

Asks for: Good quantity* Scrap quantity Finished-goods bin* Output lot number (required for lot-controlled items)

Genealogy

On each row of the list.

* required

The rules that apply here

Everything on this screen obeys the platform rules rather than rules of its own. The ones worth knowing before you use it:

Narrowing a list — search, conditions, sort, totals, export and saved views.
What may be changed — the five grounds a record may not be edited on.
Companies and business units — what the switcher above this list is doing to it.

Walk through this screen step by step