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Production Orders

The FastTrack solution for production orders lets you visualize and schedule Business Central production routing on the planning board. Its key features:

  • Visualize and plan routing lines via drag and drop, using and respecting all the BC business logic.
  • Create resources in Dime.Scheduler from the standard BC work center and machine center tables.
  • Update the category or time marker of the planned task in Dime.Scheduler automatically when the production order status changes.

Setup​

Fast track wizard

Enable production orders solution​

  • Select Enable Production Routing planning to turn on the FastTrack solution.

Configure production orders​

  • In Show Order Status as, choose how to update the planned task(s) in Dime.Scheduler when the production order status changes in BC. Update either the category or the time marker. Leave it blank if you don't want the order status to be shown.

The video below shows the functionality behind this setting. It uses service orders, but the capabilities are the same for this module:

Usage​

Watch the video below for a short introduction to this module in Dime.Scheduler:

Actions​

The default actions on this page have been extended with the following items.

List Actions​

See common actions for an overview of the list actions for this type.

Card actions​

The following actions have been added to the production order:

  • Send order
  • Delete order

Production Order

Creating production orders​

The flow is straightforward: when you create a production order and run the send to Dime.Scheduler action, the connector fetches all the relevant data about the production order and its work items, and sends it to Dime.Scheduler.

Three entities are involved:

  • Production orders
  • Production order lines
  • Production order routing lines

Dime.Scheduler keeps the relationship between a production order and its lines. The production order is captured at the Job level, the production order line at the Task level, and each production order routing line maps to an Appointment record. When a production order has multiple lines, those lines link to the same job in Dime.Scheduler, so once planned they trace back to the same production order.

Sending the production order to Dime.Scheduler creates these tasks. Unlike the other modules, appointments are created automatically from within Business Central: Dime.Scheduler uses the production and routing rules in BC to build the planning. So when you send a production order to Dime.Scheduler, appointments appear on the planning board automatically.

Production orders

Planning production orders​

Unlike the other modules, no open tasks are created for you to drag from the open tasks grid to the planning board. Dime.Scheduler taps into the production and routing business logic of Business Central, so it already knows which machine and work centers are allocated to the tasks. It simply visualizes the planning that Business Central produced.

Each production order routing line corresponds to an appointment in Dime.Scheduler, so the two are directly linked. Modifying an appointment is processed by the production routing engine in Business Central, which validates and recalculates the entire production order routing if needed. In the example below, modifying one appointment of the production affects the other steps in the order.

Resource allocation

In short, Dime.Scheduler uses standard Business Central functionality and adds visual scheduling on top of it for production orders.