What is meant by Operating orders?
Operating orders are internal orders for the planning, control and execution of production or manufacturing processes in a company. They are used to organize and monitor the manufacture of products or the provision of services.
Typical software functions in the “production orders” area:
- Order creation: generation of operating orders based on customer orders or production plans
- Resource planning: Allocation of materials, machines and personnel to work orders
- Scheduling: Definition of start and end dates for work orders
- Progress tracking: Monitoring production progress and updating order status
- Material planning: planning and management of material requirements for production orders
- Production data acquisition (PDA): recording of production data such as quantities, times and quality
- Feedback: recording of completion notifications and actual data for production orders
- Quality assurance: integration of quality controls into the production process
- Cost accounting: recording and evaluation of costs per production order
- Reporting: Generation of reports and analyses for production orders
Examples of “production orders”:
- Production order for 1000 units of a specific product
- Maintenance order for a production plant
- Assembly order for a customer order
- Setup order for the preparation of a production line
- Packaging order for finished products
- Quality inspection order for a production batch
