Associated Production Runs

Quite often, there are dependencies among Production Runs. The output of a Production Run will be fed into another one, which in turn feeds another and so on. To illustrate, an Assembly run will depend on a Manufacturing run’s output, which may have to be sent to a Subcontractor for finishing processes, through a Subcontract run. Thus, the Manufacturing run becomes the preceding run for the Subcontract run, while the Assembly run becomes the latter’s succeeding run, so that the sequence is Manufacturing > Subcontract > Assembly.

To associate preceding and succeeding Dependent Production Runs, click Link To Production Run from the top menus of the Edit Production Run page.

This will open the Associations tab, with the linking options enabled. Choose Type = Preceding , then the correct Production Run and click Create.

*Now this Production Run can start only after the preceding run has completed.

Similarly, you can link one or more succeeding Production Runs

*You can also link Routing Tasks from other production runs, which may yield an intermediate product. Therefore, Routing Tasks will also be listed along with production runs in the dropdown.

All dependent runs/tasks will appear under the Associations tab.

All associated production runs are also shown on the main Edit Production Run tab

You can remove an associated run or task by clicking the link against it