Routing Maintenance: Ability to move operations up / down, insert and delete, just like line items in Purchase Orders.
Currently MAS200 does not allow for moving routing operations. This functionality should be standard since manufacturing often requires many steps.
Since manufacturers often have process improvements, this creates the need for equally frequent operation changes.
For example, it takes 20 operations to manufacture a particular item. If you needed to move step 0002 between 0005 and 0006, you have to delete all operations from 0002 through 0020 and completely re-write your operations.
A work-around for this is to number operations as 0010, 0020, 0030, etc. This allows for up to 9 "sub-steps" in your standard operations. So, if you have to move step 2 between step 5 and 6, you can delete step 0020 and call it step 0055.
Although this works, it is very inefficient and time consuming, and your work orders do not have a steady "step number flow" from a data processing and manufacturing standpoint.
by: Rob D. | over a year ago | Manufacturing
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This will likely not happen until (or *IF*) work order moves to the business framework like the purchase order module.
That would be ideal. It would certainly streamline work order maintenance and process improvement.
I actually found a better recommendation with 110 votes, but Sage has not flagged it as planned (yet):
"Bring Work Order into the Business Framework."
by: Jim P. | about a year ago | 2 - Manufacturing
This topic currently has 110 votes. Please vote for this suggestion instead of mine in the hope that Sage will work on this upgrade.